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French PM Valls condemns BDS: ‘Criticism of Israeli policies that turned into anti-Semitism’

French PM Valls condemns BDS: ‘Criticism of Israeli policies that turned into anti-Semitism’

Meyer Habib, French MP representing dual citizens in Israel and other countries, calls on his government to enforce anti-boycott laws.   The French government firmly… Read More ›

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

The debate surrounding the Arab revolts tends to center on basic human nature.   Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Arab… Read More ›

‘Israel, Iran have fastest growing defense budgets in Middle East’

‘Israel, Iran have fastest growing defense budgets in Middle East’

‘Israel, Iran have fastest growing defense budgets in Middle East’   Israel and Iran have the fastest growing defense budgets in the Middle East while… Read More ›

Israeli teens take to gridiron to prep for military combat

Israeli teens take to gridiron to prep for military combat

American football is seeing a unlikely hike in interest as team values, strategic thinking gird recruits for elite army unit draft   AP — Under… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia will behead a second teen protester

Saudi Arabia will behead a second teen protester

  The distraught parents of a teenager believed to be on the brink of being beheaded by Saudi Arabia have launched a last-ditch appeal to the… Read More ›

One of the San Bernardino killers allegedly planned 2 attacks with the neighbor who supplied him guns

One of the San Bernardino killers allegedly planned 2 attacks with the neighbor who supplied him guns

  A criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent claims that Syed Rizwan Farook and Enrique Marquez planned two attacks designed for mass casualties years… Read More ›

Amazon is in talks to lease 20 cargo planes to build its own overnight air operations

Amazon is in talks to lease 20 cargo planes to build its own overnight air operations

  Amazon could soon be leasing at least 20 cargo planes with the goal of building its own air-logistics operations in the US, according toThe Seattle Times’ Jay Greene… Read More ›

Rockland County, NY – Jewish Community Cries Foul Over East Ramapo Report; Wieder Resigns As Democratic Head Of Legislature

Rockland County, NY – Jewish Community Cries Foul Over East Ramapo Report; Wieder Resigns As Democratic Head Of Legislature

Rockland County, NY – Four days after a 32 page report made numerous suggestions for changes in the troubled East Ramapo School district, local members… Read More ›

Syracuse, NY – Judge Imposes Lifetime Prison Terms In High Profile Amish Kidnapping Case

Syracuse, NY – Judge Imposes Lifetime Prison Terms In High Profile Amish Kidnapping Case

  Syracuse, NY – A man and a woman who kidnapped and sexually abused two Amish girls in northern New York last year were sentenced… Read More ›

Orlando, FL – Disney, Other Parks Add Metal Detectors For The Holidays

Orlando, FL – Disney, Other Parks Add Metal Detectors For The Holidays

  Orlando, FL – Three major theme parks announced Thursday that they are adding security measures including metal detectors ahead of the busy holiday season.… Read More ›

Russia travel agency offers vacations to Syria conflict

Russia travel agency offers vacations to Syria conflict

  A deadly conflict zone that has seen more than four million of its own citizens flee the country seems unlikely to make anyone’s travel… Read More ›

Reviled drug CEO Martin Shkreli arrested

Reviled drug CEO Martin Shkreli arrested

He ran his companies “like a Ponzi scheme.” The charges he faces represent a “trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.” That is how federal law… Read More ›

FBI: San Bernardino shooters pledged jihad over direct messages

FBI: San Bernardino shooters pledged jihad over direct messages

  San Bernardino shooters Tashfeen Malik andSyed Rizwan Farook communicated online about jihad via direct, private messaging as far back as 2013, FBI Director James… Read More ›

US poised to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal

US poised to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal

Senators say agreement off to ‘terrible start’ with Tehran’s sentencing of American reporter and its ballistic missile test   WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States… Read More ›

UN recognizes Yom Kippur as official holiday

UN recognizes Yom Kippur as official holiday

Day of Atonement joins Christmas, Eid al-Fitr and Thanksgiving as Israeli, American efforts bear fruit   The United Nations on Thursday recognized the Day of… Read More ›

Mother of soldier Israel said was killed in Gaza wants him listed as MIA

Mother of soldier Israel said was killed in Gaza wants him listed as MIA

Zehava Shaul says so long as there’s any uncertainty about her son Oron’s fate, she won’t give up hope for his return   The family… Read More ›

Polish students fulfill their promise to a Holocaust survivor

Polish students fulfill their promise to a Holocaust survivor

When Holocaust survivor Anya Ponimonsky of Kiryat Bialik, 77, told her life story to Polish students from the small town in which she grew up,… Read More ›

Ministry of Defense to sue youths who faked kidnapping

Ministry of Defense to sue youths who faked kidnapping

The state is suing Niv Asraf and Eran Nagaoker, who faked Asraf’s kidnapping in Hebron last April, for NIS 625,000. The incident prompted a massive… Read More ›

Which Netanyahu should we believe?

Which Netanyahu should we believe?

Op-ed: Overseas, the prime minister voices his support for all Jewish denominations; in Israel, he appoints a chief rabbi who criticizes the education minister for… Read More ›

Czech Parliament rejects labeling of products from Israeli settlements

Czech Parliament rejects labeling of products from Israeli settlements

One Czech lawmaker says decision “may evoke awkward reminiscence of marking Jewish people during World War II.”   The Czech parliament passed a resolution on… Read More ›