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Spanish Anti-BDS Org Gets Boycott Resolution Nixed by Court

Spanish Anti-BDS Org Gets Boycott Resolution Nixed by Court

A Spanish district court has annulled a BDS resolution passed by the municipal council of Ayamonte banning any association or economic agreement with Israeli companies… Read More ›

Have a truly good New Year

Have a truly good New Year

Op-ed: as in every holiday season, people send holiday greeting cards filled with righteous misrepresentations of the previous year, while pretending to know what next… Read More ›

PM calls on Jews to embrace ‘great commonality’

PM calls on Jews to embrace ‘great commonality’

In remarks made in English for Rosh Hashanah, Netanyahu lauds Jewish achievements since the Holocaust, emphasizing its ‘progressive, enlightened, advanced’ character; urging Jews around the… Read More ›

Duterte says he’ll buy only Israeli weapons because there are no restrictions

Duterte says he’ll buy only Israeli weapons because there are no restrictions

Meeting President Rivlin, Philippines leader says US, Germany, and China impose limitations on arms sales; Rivlin tells him ‘Hitler was the devil himself’   Philippines… Read More ›

Minorities too can connect to the Zionist idea

Minorities too can connect to the Zionist idea

Op-ed: the Nation State Law is perhaps attempting to verbalize what HaShomer HaChadash is doing on the ground: assisting Jewish and non-Jewish farmers, ranchers, who… Read More ›

Visit by controversial Philippines strongman sparks ire in Israel

Visit by controversial Philippines strongman sparks ire in Israel

Some wonder why Jerusalem wants to forge a closer bond and sell arms to Rodrigo Duterte, known for poor human rights record and past self-comparison… Read More ›

Chief Rabbi Yosef Suspected of Criminal Violation

Chief Rabbi Yosef Suspected of Criminal Violation

Yosef lobbied members of the electoral committee for the Council of the Chief Rabbinate to vote in favor of his close associate and politically agreed… Read More ›

The joint struggle

The joint struggle

Op-ed: Prime Minister Netanyahu fears that a joint Arab-Jewish struggle against the anti-Arab, anti-democratic Nation-State Law has the potential to make a fundamental difference if… Read More ›

Los Angeles – Rare Letter Detailing Freud’s Jewish Background To Be Auctioned Off

Los Angeles – Rare Letter Detailing Freud’s Jewish Background To Be Auctioned Off

  Los Angeles – A Los Angeles auction house will offer a handwritten letter by Sigmund Freud detailing his family history and education. In it,… Read More ›

Hundreds Flock to Commemorate Clandestine Jewish Immigration in Tel Aviv

Hundreds Flock to Commemorate Clandestine Jewish Immigration in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of thousands of Jews made their way to the British Mandate of Palestine despite a strict quota imposed on Jewish immigration by the British.… Read More ›

San Francisco – The Jewish Founder Of A College Program For Inmates Eyes His Own Release From Prison

San Francisco – The Jewish Founder Of A College Program For Inmates Eyes His Own Release From Prison

  San Francisco – A Jewish inmate serving life in prison without parole took a step toward freedom Aug. 21 and credited the local Jewish… Read More ›

Police detain suspect of attack on Arabs at Haifa beach

Police detain suspect of attack on Arabs at Haifa beach

After 3 Arabs from Shfaram were attacked at Kiryat Haim beach, police detain 29-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in crime; two suspects detained so… Read More ›

Despite honors for collaborators, PM praises Vilnius for Holocaust remembrance

Despite honors for collaborators, PM praises Vilnius for Holocaust remembrance

Netanyahu thanks Lithuanian counterpart for ‘great steps’ to commemorate Holocaust, but Jewish community figures say country continues to honor nationalist figures who killed Jews  … Read More ›

Jerusalem – First-ever ‘Ask The Rabbanit’ Website To Be Launched By Women Scholars

Jerusalem – First-ever ‘Ask The Rabbanit’ Website To Be Launched By Women Scholars

  Jerusalem – The Beit Hillel Orthodox rabbinical association is set to launch the first “ask the rabbanit” website for questions and answers on issues… Read More ›

Jewish UK Labour group says leaders censored material on anti-Semitism

Jewish UK Labour group says leaders censored material on anti-Semitism

Jeremy Corbyn’s party accused of scrapping presentation on 2 suspended party members, ‘deliberately undermining’ reform efforts   A Jewish group affiliated with Britain’s Labour movement… Read More ›

Newport, RI – George Washington Letter To Be Read At Oldest US Synagogue

Newport, RI – George Washington Letter To Be Read At Oldest US Synagogue

  Newport, RI – A letter from George Washington will be read at the nation’s oldest synagogue to celebrate freedom of religion. The annual reading… Read More ›

Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters see a ‘Zionist’ conspiracy against him

Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters see a ‘Zionist’ conspiracy against him

The scandals come fast and furious, but the Labour leader’s backers see nefarious plots by ‘wealthy and powerful circles’ behind the barrage of troubling revelations… Read More ›

Israelis Emigrating? Lowest Number in Nearly Three Decades

Israelis Emigrating? Lowest Number in Nearly Three Decades

580,000 citizens live abroad, 3.3 million immigrants since 1948.   The rate of Israelis moving abroad is at a 28-year low, a counterintuitive statistic considering… Read More ›

To those opposing the Nation-State Law

To those opposing the Nation-State Law

Op-ed: The needless uproar over this justified law illustrates that some people in society would sleepwalk into a future devoid of any national identity if… Read More ›

Manila – Philippine President To Visit Israel, Meet Netanyahu

Manila – Philippine President To Visit Israel, Meet Netanyahu

  Manila – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted an invitation to visit Israel next month in a sign of improving ties, which hit a… Read More ›