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Renewed clashes between settlers, Palestinians following fatal shooting

Renewed clashes between settlers, Palestinians following fatal shooting

Security forces intervene in skirmish at West Bank village of Qusra; rights group says 2 villagers injured by Jewish rock throwers   Jewish settlers tried… Read More ›

Buenos Aires – Argentina Passes Law To Hold Annual Memorial Day For ’92 Israeli Embassy Bombing

Buenos Aires – Argentina Passes Law To Hold Annual Memorial Day For ’92 Israeli Embassy Bombing

  Buenos Aires – The Argentina Senate passed a law for an annual memorial day remembering the 1992 terror attack on the Israeli Embassy in… Read More ›

Despite Protests, Sarsour Speaks at JVP Event

Despite Protests, Sarsour Speaks at JVP Event

Sarsour: So obviously I’m the biggest problem for the Jewish community, I’m the existential threat.   NEW YORK – Eventually, much of the panel held… Read More ›

San Francisco – Facebook Suspends Ability To Target Ads By Excluding Racial Groups

San Francisco – Facebook Suspends Ability To Target Ads By Excluding Racial Groups

San Francisco – Facebook Inc <FB.O> said on Wednesday it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers on its social network to exclude racial groups… Read More ›

Ukraine Thanks Israel for Support on Crimea at UN

Ukraine Thanks Israel for Support on Crimea at UN

On an official visit, Ukraine Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said his country’s relationship will only continue to improve.   Over a busy two-day visit to… Read More ›

The Israeli embrace of ‘Zionist anti-Semites’

The Israeli embrace of ‘Zionist anti-Semites’

Op-ed: The Jewish right in America and in Israel is no longer afraid of the ‘old anti-Semitism,’ yet progressive Jews are being defined as accomplices… Read More ›

Opposition slams police recommendation bill as tailor-made to shield Netanyahu

Opposition slams police recommendation bill as tailor-made to shield Netanyahu

Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid says proposal designed to protect PM from prosecution; Labor’s Avi Gabbay lambastes coalition as ‘gang members’   Opposition leaders on Monday… Read More ›

Likud Activistis Take Action to Save Hotovely’s Job

Likud Activistis Take Action to Save Hotovely’s Job

A group of central committee members who call themselves the Nationalist Campaign in Likud began a campaign to save Hotovely’s job.   After coming under… Read More ›

ADL demands action from Poland over hotel with no Jews allowed sign

ADL demands action from Poland over hotel with no Jews allowed sign

‘Entry forbidden to Jews, Commies, and all thieves and traitors of Poland’ written on sign outside hostel near major city of Wroclaw   The Anti-Defamation… Read More ›

Op-ed: Breaking the Silence, which started off by exposing wrongs in a bid to fix them, has turned into an organization ceaselessly spreading lies against… Read More ›

Joint Declaration Calls on Us to Demand Palestinians Recognize Jewish State

Joint Declaration Calls on Us to Demand Palestinians Recognize Jewish State

“The primary obstacle to ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the near century of Palestinian rejectionism of the right of self-determination for the Jewish People”  … Read More ›

Hauling Trump baggage, US bedeviled by planned ‘no’ vote on UN anti-Nazi motion

Hauling Trump baggage, US bedeviled by planned ‘no’ vote on UN anti-Nazi motion

Though it always votes against resolution because of wider implications, State Department pressed to go further in explaining position given president’s comments on Charlottesville  … Read More ›

Halamish survivors hosted at the White House

Halamish survivors hosted at the White House

Michal Salomon, who lost her husband and 2 other family members in a brutal terror attack, meets with Trump’s Mid. East envoy Jason Greenblatt; ‘Privileged… Read More ›

After Listening, Kushner and Greenblatt Form Some Ideas of Their Own

After Listening, Kushner and Greenblatt Form Some Ideas of Their Own

“Our goal is to facilitate, not dictate, a lasting peace agreement to improve the lives of Israelis and Palestinians and security across the region.”  … Read More ›

Pendant lost in Sobibor reunites Jewish girl’s family 70 years later

Pendant lost in Sobibor reunites Jewish girl’s family 70 years later

A piece of jewelry discovered by archaeologists at the former Nazi death camp, similar to a pendant that had belonged to Anne Frank, leads to… Read More ›

How Satmar Rebbe’s grandson became an IDF officer

How Satmar Rebbe’s grandson became an IDF officer

As a young boy in the radical Hasidic Satmar group in Brooklyn, Chaim Meisels dreamed about Israel and about serving in the IDF. In an… Read More ›

Will Iran Chair the Next UNESCO Executive Board?

Will Iran Chair the Next UNESCO Executive Board?

The overall make-up of the executive board is seen as more hostile to Israel than the previous one.   A diplomatic battle is under way… Read More ›

Seinfeld to give 2 Israeli performances on Dec. 30

Seinfeld to give 2 Israeli performances on Dec. 30

Hugely successful standup comic behind hit show Seinfeld returns to Israel for only 2 performances in Tel Aviv’s Menora Mivtachim Arena on December 30; Seinfeld… Read More ›

Rockland County, NY – Democrats Hang On For Clean Sweep In Ramapo Race That Divided Jewish Community

Rockland County, NY – Democrats Hang On For Clean Sweep In Ramapo Race That Divided Jewish Community

Rockland County, NY – A new chapter in the history of Ramapo is about to unfold, with newly elected Supervisor Michael Specht vowing to set… Read More ›

Each nation has its own ‘Nakba’

Each nation has its own ‘Nakba’

Op-ed: The claims of injustice suffered by Palestine’s Arab residents because of the Balfour Declaration should be looked into on the background of the reality… Read More ›