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Washington – Study: Even The Normal-weight Should Watch That Apple Shape

Washington – Study: Even The Normal-weight Should Watch That Apple Shape

Washington – A pot belly can be a bad thing — even if you’re not considered overweight. New research suggests normal-weight people who carry their… Read More ›

Kiryas Joel, NY – Town Residents OK Expansion Of Hasidic Village

Kiryas Joel, NY – Town Residents OK Expansion Of Hasidic Village

Kiryas Joel, NY –  Residents living next to a Hasidic Jewish village in the Hudson Valley have voted to allow its expansion. Monday night’s vote… Read More ›

Little Rock, AR – Forecasters: 63 Million Should Have Eye Out For Bad Weather

Little Rock, AR – Forecasters: 63 Million Should Have Eye Out For Bad Weather

Little Rock, AR – Forecasters are warning 63 million people in the central U.S. to have an eye out for bad weather this week as… Read More ›

Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD wins early seats

Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD wins early seats

Yangon, Myanmar – Only a fraction of the results have been announced in Myanmar’s historic parliamentary elections, but jubilant crowds still packed the streets outside the… Read More ›

Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless

Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless

  Rising sea levels from unchecked carbon emissions could drive more than 100 million people into extreme poverty and submerge the homes of over half… Read More ›

Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report

Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report

Russian track and field athletes could be banned from the 2016 Olympics after an independent report detailed an apparently state-sponsored doping program. Commissioned by the… Read More ›

Obama, Netanyahu said to agree to expanded US military aid

Obama, Netanyahu said to agree to expanded US military aid

US, Israel to form joint task force to handle Iran nuclear-deal monitoring; PM to meet Kerry before leaving DC to discuss steps by Israel, Palestinians… Read More ›

Netanyahu calls meeting with Obama ‘one of best’ they’ve had

Netanyahu calls meeting with Obama ‘one of best’ they’ve had

PM says he was not asked to freeze settlements, only focused on how to move forward; will meet Kerry while in DC; US team heads… Read More ›

Happy birthday to my 100-year-old ‘mamo’

Happy birthday to my 100-year-old ‘mamo’

From Auschwitz to Canada, a son pays tribute to his Holocaust survivor parents, who endured so much over a century of living   TORONTO —… Read More ›

Ethiopian Israelis earn less and divorce more

Ethiopian Israelis earn less and divorce more

According to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, Ethiopian-Israelis earn 37% less than the rest of the country as well as having a much… Read More ›

Ya’alon: We are enabling Jewish terror

Ya’alon: We are enabling Jewish terror

Defense minister angry that synagogue in settlement of Givat Ze’ev has yet to be demolished, despite of Supreme Court order; says downing of the Russian… Read More ›

Iranian hackers targeted Israeli nuclear scientists, security researchers say

Iranian hackers targeted Israeli nuclear scientists, security researchers say

European authorities work to take down cyber espionage campaign that mounted attacks on some 1,600 high-profile targets, including NATO officials, Iranian dissidents, and senior political… Read More ›

Abbas claims Hamas and Israel are meeting to annex part of Sinai to Gaza

Abbas claims Hamas and Israel are meeting to annex part of Sinai to Gaza

Hamas official, Ziad al-Thatha said that Abbas was behaving more like a “clown.”   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted on Monday as claiming… Read More ›

Elbit to provide Polish special forces with training equipment

Elbit to provide Polish special forces with training equipment

Poland to receive live-fire training suites for combat soldiers, vehicles, simulation equipment, grenades, and suicide bomber kits to simulate engagements with terrorists.   Elbit Systems… Read More ›

IDF plans 2016 reservist call up to cope with persistent violence

IDF plans 2016 reservist call up to cope with persistent violence

Ya’alon: Palestinian terrorism may last indefinitely; Army has thwarted attempts by Hamas to get involved in latest violence.   Due to persisting Palestinian attacks, the… Read More ›

Hassidic version of Fifth Harmony’s song Worth It

Hassidic version of Fifth Harmony’s song Worth It

Teenager arrested for attack on Rabbis for Human Rights head

Teenager arrested for attack on Rabbis for Human Rights head

Itamar youth confessed to attack on Rabbi Arik Ascherman last month, was charged with aggravated assault.   Officers from the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and… Read More ›

West Bank stabber turns himself in to Palestinian security

West Bank stabber turns himself in to Palestinian security

Israel demands attacker be handed over; 48-year-old Israeli seriously hurt in Sunday attack   A Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli on Sunday near the West… Read More ›

Goldman Sachs is ditching its BRIC fund

Goldman Sachs is ditching its BRIC fund

  Fourteen years after coining a term that came to define emerging-market investing, Goldman Sachs has ditched the BRICs. The firm is merging its BRIC… Read More ›

China’s trade data was a lot of gloom

China’s trade data was a lot of gloom

On Sunday, China released its October trade figures with exports, imports, and the size of the overall trade surplus coming in lower than expected. From… Read More ›