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Online slip-up led police to JCC bomb threat suspect

Online slip-up led police to JCC bomb threat suspect

Israeli-American teenager said to have forgotten on at least 1 occasion to mask IP address when issuing threatening calls   The Israeli-American teenager arrested Thursday… Read More ›

Experts Warn That Trump Budget for Foreign and Cripples Antisemitism Fight

Experts Warn That Trump Budget for Foreign and Cripples Antisemitism Fight

Panel members encouraged lawmakers to codify a common definition of antisemitism that would provide Americans and their diplomats with a clear understanding of what to… Read More ›

‘If AntiSemitic Parties Rise to Power, We Will Call on European Jews to Flee’

‘If AntiSemitic Parties Rise to Power, We Will Call on European Jews to Flee’

Rabbinical Center of Europe discusses concerns on extremism at conference.   A European Jewish leader said Monday that the rise of extremist parties in Europe… Read More ›

Israeli Arabs’ self-inflicted defeat

Israeli Arabs’ self-inflicted defeat

Op-ed: There is only one party in the Knesset that has no room in any coalition or government. As long as the Joint List’s language… Read More ›

AIPAC confab to seek bipartisan spirit in deeply polarized capital

AIPAC confab to seek bipartisan spirit in deeply polarized capital

On agenda for March 26-28 pro-Israel lobby conference: Iran, boycott efforts, foreign assistance, but no mention of two states   WASHINGTON (JTA) – Maintaining Iran… Read More ›

German BDS Events Canceled in Frankfurt and Bonn

German BDS Events Canceled in Frankfurt and Bonn

Jewish community and Wiesenthal Center welcome the decisions in Bonn and Frankfurt.   After a wave of objections to a boycott-Israel event scheduled for next… Read More ›

Assad: Russia has ‘important role’ in preventing Israel-Syria clash

Assad: Russia has ‘important role’ in preventing Israel-Syria clash

Syrian dictator defends decision to fire anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli planes, says protecting country’s borders ‘our duty’   Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Monday… Read More ›

Shin Bet chief warns: Current calm in violence is deceiving

Shin Bet chief warns: Current calm in violence is deceiving

Director Nadav Argaman says terror cells, particularly organized ones belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, are working constantly to carry out terror attacks and will… Read More ›

Shin Bet chief: For Hamas, Passover is prime time for terror

Shin Bet chief: For Hamas, Passover is prime time for terror

Nadav Argaman warns lull in security incidents during 2016 is ‘deceptive,’ as terror groups still seek to carry out attacks   The head of the… Read More ›

Germany MPS Investigate Pro-Hezbollah Academic Finkelstein

Germany MPS Investigate Pro-Hezbollah Academic Finkelstein

  In a dramatic widening of an academic antisemitism scandal at the Max Planck Institute for the promotion of lectures delivered by a pro-Hezbollah instructor,… Read More ›

Leave secular conscientious objectors alone

Leave secular conscientious objectors alone

Op-ed: A refusal to serve in the territories is perceived as a refusal to accept the majority’s political decision. It is no different, however, from… Read More ›

AJC Urges Congress to Back Letter to Trump Calling for Two-States

AJC Urges Congress to Back Letter to Trump Calling for Two-States

The AJC letter is the latest salvo by establishment Jewish organizations to preserve the two-state solution in light of two signals that the Republican Party… Read More ›

Mayor Barkat calls Jerusalem Marathon a ‘spiritual sporting event’

Mayor Barkat calls Jerusalem Marathon a ‘spiritual sporting event’

The city’s seventh international marathon, which begins Friday morning, has 30,000 runners, with more than 3,500 hailing from 65 countries   As Jerusalem gears up… Read More ›

Polish historian’s book on killing of Jews exposes raw nerve

Polish historian’s book on killing of Jews exposes raw nerve

Barbara Engelking’s ‘Such a Beautiful Sunny Day’ details dozens of cases of everyday Poles in World War II raping Jewish women and bludgeoning Jews to… Read More ›

Hotels Join the List of Venues Canceling BDS Events in Vienna

Hotels Join the List of Venues Canceling BDS Events in Vienna

“BDS has an antisemitic agenda and leads a campaign of demonization, delegitimization and double standards against Israel.”   Hotel Kaiserwasser and Hotel Regina have pulled… Read More ›

Miki Zohar has a dream for an annexation

Miki Zohar has a dream for an annexation

Op-ed: While there is no reason to hold MK Miki Zohar’s suggestion regarding the possible annexation of the West Bank and its residents in high… Read More ›

Jerusalem – A Look At Some Israeli High-tech Successes

Jerusalem – A Look At Some Israeli High-tech Successes

  Jerusalem – Intel announced Monday it will spend more than $15 billion to acquire Mobileye, an Israeli company that develops technology that essentially gives… Read More ›

Ministerial initiative on Temple Mount raises ire among Arab MKs

Ministerial initiative on Temple Mount raises ire among Arab MKs

The initiative to establish an advocacy foundation for Jewish connections to the Temple Mount has been met with fury among Arab lawmakers who claim the… Read More ›

Don’t let the lobbyists derail the law to ban binary options

Don’t let the lobbyists derail the law to ban binary options

Op-Ed: Proponents of the widely fraudulent industry are quietly trying to thwart law-enforcement’s long-overdue move to close it down   In these very days, in… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel Soars At World Baseball Classic, And A Nation Shrugs

Jerusalem – Israel Soars At World Baseball Classic, And A Nation Shrugs

  Jerusalem –  Israel is the big surprise of the World Baseball Classic, upsetting three teams, generating buzz and offering a mascot like no other… Read More ›