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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 ›

Three years after referendum, UK Jewish writer’s new book tackles Brexit chaos

Three years after referendum, UK Jewish writer’s new book tackles Brexit chaos

Award-winning author Linda Grant tries to make sense of a country split by anger and betrayal, writing along the way a worst-case scenario that is… Read More ›

Israelis need to talk about the religious-secular rift

Israelis need to talk about the religious-secular rift

Opinion: One of the most difficult problems with discourse in Israel over issues of religion and state is that it is a mendacious one on… Read More ›

How the Berlin Jewish Museum became a political lightning rod

How the Berlin Jewish Museum became a political lightning rod

The resignation of its director, after a tweet that seemed to support the anti-Israel BDS movement, has many questioning role of institution in its community… Read More ›

Jews are discriminated against in Jerusalem’s Old City

Jews are discriminated against in Jerusalem’s Old City

Opinion: Despite being the only country in the Middle East where Christians thrive, Greek Orthodox Church officials refuse to sell property to Jews claiming their… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Palestinian Village Council Head Fired After Jews Attend Son’s Wedding

Jerusalem – Palestinian Village Council Head Fired After Jews Attend Son’s Wedding

  Jerusalem – The council head of a West Bank Palestinian village was removed from his office after video from his son’s wedding showed that… Read More ›

Nir Barkat – The Likud’s New Acquisition and His Message to U.S. Jews

Nir Barkat – The Likud’s New Acquisition and His Message to U.S. Jews

  Ahead of the April 9 election, there were many parties that brought in new talent and gave these candidates reserved slots on their lists.… Read More ›

How one man unraveled the mystery of his mother’s Holocaust nightmare

How one man unraveled the mystery of his mother’s Holocaust nightmare

In his new book, Prof. Stanley Goldman unearths a personal untold story, learning about his own relationship with his mom, as well as the siblings… Read More ›

High food prices leave Israel’s elderly without traditional Shavuot fare

High food prices leave Israel’s elderly without traditional Shavuot fare

78-year-old Sol is this year forfeiting her usual cheese biscuits, while 74-year-old David worries that he and his wife are not getting enough vitamins and… Read More ›