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Looking for a quickie Jewish wedding in Las Vegas? Call Rabbi Mel Hecht

Looking for a quickie Jewish wedding in Las Vegas? Call Rabbi Mel Hecht

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 ›

Israel starts returning terrorists’ bodies to families

Israel starts returning terrorists’ bodies to families

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 ›

At least 50 dead in Russian airstrikes on Syrian schools, hospitals

At least 50 dead in Russian airstrikes on Syrian schools, hospitals

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 ›

‘ISIS planning chemical attack against US’

‘ISIS planning chemical attack against US’

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 ›

Rivlin slams bill allowing MKs to vote out lawmakers who express support for terrorism

Rivlin slams bill allowing MKs to vote out lawmakers who express support for terrorism

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 ›

Turkey accuses Russia of firing missiles in Syria, killing 50 in schools, hospitals

Turkey accuses Russia of firing missiles in Syria, killing 50 in schools, hospitals

  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 ›

Home made guns add to Israeli security

Home made guns add to Israeli security

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

FROM THE WILDERNESSS AND LEBANON, An Israeli Soldier’s Story of War and Recovery, by Asael Lubotsky

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 ›

Britain to issue anti-boycott regulations

Britain to issue anti-boycott regulations

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 ›

Who’s for destroying democracy?

Who’s for destroying democracy?

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 ›

Elizabeth Warren unloads on Republicans for saying they’ll block Obama’s attempt to replace Scalia

Elizabeth Warren unloads on Republicans for saying they’ll block Obama’s attempt to replace Scalia

  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 ›

Ruth Bader Ginsburg released a moving tribute to her ‘best buddy,’ Antonin Scalia

Ruth Bader Ginsburg released a moving tribute to her ‘best buddy,’ Antonin Scalia

  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 ›

Japan just posted a stinker GDP result

Japan just posted a stinker GDP result

  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 – Suspected Former Nazi Camp Guard Dies In Croatia At 92

Zagreb, Croatia – Suspected Former Nazi Camp Guard Dies In Croatia At 92

  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 – Police: I-78 Crash Sent 73 To Hospital, Involved 64 Vehicles

Fredericksburg, PA – Police: I-78 Crash Sent 73 To Hospital, Involved 64 Vehicles

  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 Olmert ‘Strong, Stable’ As He Enters Jail Share Tweet Share Mail

Israel – Former Prime Minister Olmert ‘Strong, Stable’ As He Enters Jail Share Tweet Share Mail

  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 ›

150,000 penguins perish after giant iceberg traps colony

150,000 penguins perish after giant iceberg traps colony

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 ›

How Scalia’s death could upend America

How Scalia’s death could upend America

  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 ›

McCain slams Russia: ‘Mr. Putin is not interested in being our partner’

McCain slams Russia: ‘Mr. Putin is not interested in being our partner’

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 ›

Sides draw battle lines over Scalia successor on US Supreme Court

Sides draw battle lines over Scalia successor on US Supreme Court

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 ›