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Have archaeologists found biblical city of King David’s story?

Have archaeologists found biblical city of King David’s story?

Finds suggest that the site of Khirbet al-Ra’I near Kiryat Gat could be the ancient desert city of Ziklag, to which the Bible says David… Read More ›

Backing gay conversion therapy, new education minister elicits fresh uproar

Backing gay conversion therapy, new education minister elicits fresh uproar

Rafi Peretz pilloried by opposition parties, with multiple calls for his resignation; Netanyahu: Statements unacceptable, do not reflect the position of the government   In… Read More ›

What’s Kamala Harris’s Record on Israel?

What’s Kamala Harris’s Record on Israel?

Washington Affairs: Opposes BDS, supports rejoining the nuclear deal   WASHINGTON – Just three weeks ago, no one gave Senator Kamala Harris of California a… Read More ›

When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’

When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’

Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work   In… Read More ›

Argentina to Designate Hezbollah as Terror Group – Report

Argentina to Designate Hezbollah as Terror Group – Report

According to La Nacion, Argentinian President Mauricio Macri asked his government to find the most rapid solution to include the Iranian—backed group in the list… Read More ›

A secular uprising could decide the election

A secular uprising could decide the election

Opinion: Traditionally right-wing communities are in the forefront of growing descent against the power of ultra-Orthodox parties who impose their agenda on secular society, secure… Read More ›

Education minister: Intermarriage among US Jews is ‘like a second Holocaust’

Education minister: Intermarriage among US Jews is ‘like a second Holocaust’

ADL chief says Rafi Peretz’s remark ‘trivializes the Shoah’; Israel-Diaspora activist group calls Israeli discourse about US Jews ‘irresponsible and disrespectful’   The rate of… Read More ›

Israel Police bracing for fresh protests by Ethiopian community

Israel Police bracing for fresh protests by Ethiopian community

Statement disseminated on social media calling for resumption of demonstrations following killing of teen in Haifa by off-duty cop; authorities say they are ‘preparing for… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israeli Researchers Uncover King David’s Biblical Town Of Ziklag

Jerusalem – Israeli Researchers Uncover King David’s Biblical Town Of Ziklag

  Jerusalem – Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have found Biblical Ziklag.… Read More ›

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

As 40-year head of the Jewish United Fund, Steve Nasatir helped bring in $8 billion from the city’s 300,000 Jews   JTA — Before he stepped… Read More ›

The left insists on saving Netanyahu from his voters

The left insists on saving Netanyahu from his voters

Opinion: Likud voters are a diverse group, fearful of a binational state that would lose Israel’s Jewish majority, critical of funds handed out to ultra-Orthodox… Read More ›

Kushner: Trump ‘Very Fond’ of Abbas, PA’s Response to Parley ‘Hysterical’

Kushner: Trump ‘Very Fond’ of Abbas, PA’s Response to Parley ‘Hysterical’

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said “the U.S. peace plan is good, we need support.”   The Palestinian leadership’s reaction to the Bahrain economic… Read More ›

Two Years On, No Progress at Egalitarian Kotel Plaza

Two Years On, No Progress at Egalitarian Kotel Plaza

‘They are trying to make us feel like second-rate citizens by making us pray at a third-rate place.’   Last July, an ancient stone fell… Read More ›

136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop

136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop

47 police officers, 26 protesters, 9 passersby and one firefighter treated by MDA; Erdan: No repeat of Tuesday’s violence; roads across country to be blocked… Read More ›

Synagogues are now conducting active shooter drills during services

Synagogues are now conducting active shooter drills during services

After gunmen massacre worshipers at Poway and Pittsburgh, US congregations learning how to hide, flee and fight back against attackers   JTA — When the… Read More ›

Allegheny County, NY – Schoolteacher In Upstate New York Praised Hitler In Yearbook Quot

Allegheny County, NY – Schoolteacher In Upstate New York Praised Hitler In Yearbook Quot

Allegheny County, NY – A school district in upstate New York has recalled its yearbook after a new teacher appeared to call Adolf Hitler his… Read More ›

Paris – France’s Eldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies, Aged 101

Paris – France’s Eldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies, Aged 101

  Paris – Henriette Cohen, France’s oldest survivor of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. She was 101. Cohen stayed silent about the horrors… Read More ›

Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer

Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer

After his terminally ill wife had to fly to Switzerland to end her suffering, Yoskeh Marmurstein is challenging a society that resists the burial of… Read More ›

New York – Court: A Picasso Sold During Nazi Flight Can Stay At New York’s Met

New York – Court: A Picasso Sold During Nazi Flight Can Stay At New York’s Met

  New York – A masterpiece painted by Pablo Picasso that a German Jewish businessman was allegedly forced to sell to fund his escape from… Read More ›

From Batman to Holy Land, comics artist sees heroes on all sides

From Batman to Holy Land, comics artist sees heroes on all sides

A Lebanese Druze, who lived through a brutal civil war to become a religious West Bank settler, paints portraits or superhero reproductions on commission to… Read More ›