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Amsterdam – Investigation Continues As Rabbi Eliezer Berland Not Extradited To Israel

Amsterdam – Investigation Continues As Rabbi Eliezer Berland Not Extradited To Israel

Amsterdam – Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is accused of abuse, will not be extradited to Israel from the Netherlands as the case continues to be… Read More ›

Putin is super friendly with the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch

Putin is super friendly with the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch

Although Russia has historically not been considered the most hospitable place for Jews who wish to observe their religion – and the Russian Orthodox church… Read More ›

A Bavarian doctor confirmed as the new head of Germany’s Jewish organization

A Bavarian doctor confirmed as the new head of Germany’s Jewish organization

Josef Schuster was elected Sunday after standing unopposed for the presidency of Germany’s Central Council of Jews. The 60-year-old was born in Haifa, Israel, and… Read More ›

Plaque still honors Ponzi schemer at center for Jewish history

Plaque still honors Ponzi schemer at center for Jewish history

The name of the most reviled member of the American Jewish community hangs in a place of honor in the lobby of the Center for… Read More ›

More than a thousand families evicted by the Gaza border

More than a thousand families evicted by the Gaza border

Egypt has forcibly evicted an estimated 1,165 families in Rafah so that it can clear a buffer zone by the Gaza border, charged the human… Read More ›

Mubarak claims: “I did nothing wrong”

Mubarak claims: “I did nothing wrong”

Mubarak acquitted under new President Morsi after two revolutions in Egypt. After being ousted once then overthrown, then ousted again, Egypt is going back to… Read More ›

Many French Jews flock to Montreal

Many French Jews flock to Montreal

When Dan Charbit and his wife, Gaelle Hazan, moved to Montreal from Paris two summers ago, it was meant to be a temporary fix —… Read More ›

Two masters of Physics who escaped the Nazis

Two masters of Physics who escaped the Nazis

In his 1998 play “Copenhagen,” Michael Frayn used the Heisenberg uncertainty principle — a cornerstone of modern physics — as a metaphor for the impossibility… Read More ›

Gadi Eizenkot will be the next chief of the IDF’s General Staff

Gadi Eizenkot will be the next chief of the IDF’s General Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Eizenkot on Friday morning to deliver the news. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon also spoke to Eizenkot on Friday, the… Read More ›

IDF Chief Rabbi Made A True Statement

IDF Chief Rabbi Made A True Statement

The chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces, Brigadier General Rafi Peretz, said during a lecture to seminary students in early November that the Temple… Read More ›

Debate at the Oxford Union on Israel versus Hamas

Debate at the Oxford Union on Israel versus Hamas

Oxford, England, 5 am – I’m trying to get two hours sleep tonight prior to my flight back to America, but cannot. I am supercharged… Read More ›

Chabad Harassment Goes Viral

Chabad Harassment Goes Viral

We don’t know if this is staged or not, or a big joke. You decide.

Iranian woman dancing video goes Viral

Iranian woman dancing video goes Viral

A video of an Iranian woman defying the country’s laws by dancing in a Tehran’s subway train has gone viral on the Internet in recent… Read More ›

Britain backs up Israel on Iran threat

Britain backs up Israel on Iran threat

William Hague has insisted that Britain and Israel remain in lockstep on efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear programme and said that the “weight of sanctions”… Read More ›

ISIS threatened to make it all the way to Jerusalem

ISIS threatened to make it all the way to Jerusalem

The threat appears in the foreword of the fifth edition of the organization’s official magazine, Dabiq – named for a town in the suburbs of… Read More ›

Hamas picks Turkey as its new center for overseas operations

Hamas picks Turkey as its new center for overseas operations

Israeli officials used diplomatic language on Thursday when responding to revelations that the Hamas cell uncovered in the West Bank received orders and training from… Read More ›

Iran’s top leader says Israel at risk

Iran’s top leader on Thursday said he would not stand in the way of continued nuclear negotiations with world powers and would accept a “fair”… Read More ›

Wanita Umno delegate urges defenceagainst Jewish ‘song, sports, sex’

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — A Wanita Umno delegate urged Islamic authorities today to take action against the Jewish threat of “style, song, sports and… Read More ›

First Jewish Victoria Cross hero was honored in London

First Jewish Victoria Cross hero was honored in London

The first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross has been honored with a permanent memorial in central London, a century after his bravery during the… Read More ›

Ukrainian Jewish philanthropist died of a gunshot head wound

Vadim Vishnevsky, a prominent member of the Jewish community of Kharkiv in Ukraine, died of a gunshot wound to the head. Vishnevsky was rushed to… Read More ›