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He came in the ’80s to serve a synagogue congregation, but wound up being the indiosyncratic rabbi of Sin City LAS VEGAS (JTA) –… Read More ›
He came in the ’80s to serve a synagogue congregation, but wound up being the indiosyncratic rabbi of Sin City LAS VEGAS (JTA) –… Read More ›
After public outcry, the first of ten bodies of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks in current wave of violence was returned to his family… Read More ›
Days after Russia and other world powers agreed to bring about a humanitarian pause in fighting, Russian warplanes allegedly strike multiple civilian targets in northern… Read More ›
American and European intelligence chiefs say the Islamic State group is manufacturing chemical weapons on an industrial scale, and have already used WMDs ‘numerous times’… Read More ›
President: Bill allowing MKs to oust colleagues oversteps and undermines Knesset’s purpose. President Reuven Rivlin on Monday condemned legislation that would allow MKs to vote… Read More ›
KIEV/BEIRUT – Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an “obvious war crime” after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned… Read More ›
Security Woes Improvised attacks are a growing challenge to stemming “popular terror.” The gun that killed Hadar Cohen was not carried into the Palestinian territories… Read More ›
FROM THE WILDERNESSS AND LEBANON, An Israeli Soldier’s Story of War and Recovery, by Asael Lubotsky Translated by Murray Roston Toby Press, Jerusalem, Israel and… Read More ›
Matthew Hancock, the British government’s Cabinet Office Minister, is scheduled to visit Israel early this week and unveil details of the regulations. In what… Read More ›
Op-ed: The prime minister’s ‘big plan’ is to weaken the political system, debilitate the civil servants and gatekeepers and destroy free press. This is not… Read More ›
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), an influential member of the Senate Democratic caucus, unloaded on Republicans who have said that President Barack Obama should not… Read More ›
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday released a statement paying tribute to a man she called her “best buddy” — Justice Antonin Scalia, who… Read More ›
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is addressing Parliament later today and there is now every chance that he hints at further easing after… Read More ›
Zagreb, Croatia – Jakob Denzinger, a suspected former Nazi prison guard at Auschwitz and other camps, has died in his native Croatia. He was… Read More ›
Fredericksburg, PA – More than 70 people were treated following the huge pileup on a central Pennsylvania interstate that killed three people, authorities said… Read More ›
Israel – Former prime minister Ehud Olmert was feeling “good, strong and stable” Sunday on the eve of his entrance into Ma’asiyahu Prison to… Read More ›
About 150,000 penguins have died since being stranded by a vast iceberg that became lodged off the coast of Antarctica six years ago, according to… Read More ›
As the nation is stunned by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the immediate question is what it will mean for the Supreme Court… Read More ›
A day after Russia’s prime minister spoke of a renewed “Cold War” between his country and the West, a senior U.S. senator accused Moscow of… Read More ›
With court in liberal-conservative deadlock and major decisions on the 2016 docket, bruising nomination fight looms WASHINGTON (AFP) — The sudden death of Justice… Read More ›