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Here’s why the firestorm over Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth is nothing like the Obama ‘birther’ controversy

Here’s why the firestorm over Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth is nothing like the Obama ‘birther’ controversy

  Top-tier presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has faced another round of questions over his White House eligibility over the past week, reviving… Read More ›

London – Three Held Over Alleged Assault Of Jewish Shoppers Share Tweet Share Mail

London – Three Held Over Alleged Assault Of Jewish Shoppers Share Tweet Share Mail

London – Three men have been arrested after Jewish shoppers in London were reportedly pelted with gas canisters by men in a pick-up truck shouting… Read More ›

Washington – Man Plotted To Kidnap Obama’s Dog Share Tweet Share Mail

Washington – Man Plotted To Kidnap Obama’s Dog Share Tweet Share Mail

  Washington –  A North Dakota man who allegedly plotted to kidnap one of the Obama family’s pet Portuguese water dogs was arrested with guns… Read More ›

New York, NY – NYPD Officer Shot In Ankle After Arriving At Scene Of Brawl

New York, NY – NYPD Officer Shot In Ankle After Arriving At Scene Of Brawl

  New York, NY – A New York City police officer was struck with a bullet in his ankle early on Saturday after he arrived… Read More ›

Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid hammer Deportivo La Coruna

Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid hammer Deportivo La Coruna

  Zinedine Zidane’s tenure as Real Madrid boss got off to a promising start Saturday thanks to a pair of stellar performances from Gareth Bale… Read More ›

ISIS commander killed in Iraqi airstrike

ISIS commander killed in Iraqi airstrike

The second deputy of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during an Iraqi air force strike in the city of Barwana, just east of… Read More ›

‘El Chapo’ dreamed of biopic; it helps lead to recapture, extradition process

‘El Chapo’ dreamed of biopic; it helps lead to recapture, extradition process

  Mexico will begin proceedings to extradite two-time prison escapee Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges… Read More ›

Far-right protesters slam alleged Shin Bet torture

Far-right protesters slam alleged Shin Bet torture

In rally outside agency chief Yoram Cohen’s home, a Jewish terror suspect’s mother accuses him of ‘crimes against humanity’   Some 200 far-right activists protested… Read More ›

MK wants labels on goods from countries that label settlement products

MK wants labels on goods from countries that label settlement products

Legislation seeks to counter new EU guidelines that ban goods manufactured beyond 1967 lines from reading ‘Made in Israel’   The Knesset Committee for Legislation… Read More ›

US historians’ group rejects anti-Israel resolution

US historians’ group rejects anti-Israel resolution

For second year in a row, American Historical Association votes down proposal to condemn Israel by 111 to 50   WASHINGTON — For the second… Read More ›

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Analysis: The discovery of two major Hamas terror cells in the West Bank over the past month shows the terror organization’s determination in the face… Read More ›

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

United Torah Judaism demands state to fund life insurance to yeshiva students, set to cost NIS 36 million, while Bayit Yehudi MK stonewalling reform in… Read More ›

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

Third of budget for medical services and drugs paid for by the state allocated to cancer treatments; other additions include emergency contraceptive for victims of… Read More ›

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

US State Department spokesman John Kirby warned such actions undermine the possibility of a two-state solution.   The expansion of the territorial boundaries of the… Read More ›

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

On January 9, 2015 a French Islamic gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took several people hostage in the grocery store after shooting a police officer in the… Read More ›

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Laws that already exist can also be utilized to prevent agunot, women chained to their marraiges.   It seems that most of what we hear… Read More ›

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA security official: “He’s an Israeli citizen and if we capture him we will hand him over to the Israeli authorities,”   Israel has asked… Read More ›

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

Investigators say evidence from the scene helped to incriminate Amiram Ben-Uliel, who also knew details of the firebombing that hadn’t been publicized   Investigators revealed… Read More ›

Former US defense secretary reportedly found top Obama national-security aides ‘dangerously naive’  Pamela Engel    4h 	3,686  3

Former US defense secretary reportedly found top Obama national-security aides ‘dangerously naive’ Pamela Engel 4h 3,686 3

  A former US defense secretary who served under four presidents referred the young aides on US President Barack Obama’s national-security and foreign-policy teams as… Read More ›

We just got the latest sign Saudi Arabia is worried about the future

We just got the latest sign Saudi Arabia is worried about the future

  The Economist is reporting in its upcoming January 9 print edition that Saudi Aramco, the Saudi state-owned oil company believed to be the world’s… Read More ›