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Egypt announces parliamentary vote for October, November

Egypt announces parliamentary vote for October, November

After three years without legislature, long-awaited elections set to take place nationwide in step for democracy   Egypt on Sunday announced that long-awaited parliamentary elections… Read More ›

Don’t mess with Italy’s missionary woman

Don’t mess with Italy’s missionary woman

While established Italian Jewry shies away from her outreach to descendants of conversos, Reform Rabbi Barbara Aiello is finding a warm embrace in her ancestral… Read More ›

Tel Aviv’s top 6 hidden hotels

Tel Aviv’s top 6 hidden hotels

Straying from the well-trodden path can be unnerving, but these lesser-known hotels in Tel Aviv will convince you that the risk is often well worth… Read More ›

Iran blocks Barenboim concert due to Israeli citizenship

Iran blocks Barenboim concert due to Israeli citizenship

Director of Berlin State Opera House denied entrance to Iran despite also holding Argentinean, Palestinian citizenship. Iran has barred famed conductor Daniel Barenboim from entering… Read More ›

‘Supergiant’ gas field found off Egyptian coast

‘Supergiant’ gas field found off Egyptian coast

Announcement from Italian energy company says field may hold 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; Egypt says parliamentary elections to take place in October.… Read More ›

Watchdog warns Netanyahu against appointing another minister to cabinet

Watchdog warns Netanyahu against appointing another minister to cabinet

Movement for Quality Government says PM should keep the cabinet at 21 ministers and combine rather than split ministries.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should… Read More ›

Lost Nazi train is merely a sliver of theft ‘beyond imagination,’ says historian

Lost Nazi train is merely a sliver of theft ‘beyond imagination,’ says historian

Gideon Greif: Germans were not only the biggest murderers, but the biggest thieves.   The possible discovery of a Nazi train filled with Holocaust- era… Read More ›

Abbas moving to boot political opponents and tighten grip on power, critics claim

Abbas moving to boot political opponents and tighten grip on power, critics claim

Differences erupt among Palestinian factions ahead of PLO parliament meeting; Abed Rabbo: Session will just be about personal changes.   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s… Read More ›

Life on Mars? American Jewish doctor hopes to find out

Life on Mars? American Jewish doctor hopes to find out

“When you’re in a space station that circles the Earth every 90 minutes, experiencing multiple sundowns daily, when, precisely, do you get your Jew on?”… Read More ›

Israelis rediscovering Turkey’s resorts

Israelis rediscovering Turkey’s resorts

The Turkish resort town of Antalya has experienced a significant rise in the number of Israeli vacationers recently. Comfortable prices, attractive amenities, and lowered concerns… Read More ›

China is ‘cranking up the propaganda machine’ ahead of its World War II parade

China is ‘cranking up the propaganda machine’ ahead of its World War II parade

  BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing is battening down the hatches and cranking up the propaganda ahead of a massive military parade this week to mark… Read More ›

A man found with bomb-making equipment and fake passports arrested in connection with Bangkok bombing

A man found with bomb-making equipment and fake passports arrested in connection with Bangkok bombing

  BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities arrested a foreign man they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks… Read More ›

Wall Street banks have changed the way Silicon Valley’s top startups raise money

Wall Street banks have changed the way Silicon Valley’s top startups raise money

  The way hot new startups raise venture capital is changing. And some traditional VC investors don’t like it one bit.  Late-stage venture investing is… Read More ›

New Windsor, NY – With Heavy Hearts, Pilots Perform At NY Air Show After Death

New Windsor, NY – With Heavy Hearts, Pilots Perform At NY Air Show After Death

  New Windsor, NY – The first-ever New York Air Show opened Saturday with a moment of silence and tributes to mark the death a… Read More ›

Atlanta – Fan Dies After Fall From Upper Deck At Atlanta Braves Game

Atlanta – Fan Dies After Fall From Upper Deck At Atlanta Braves Game

  Atlanta –  A fan died after falling from the upper deck into the lower-level stands at Turner Field on Saturday night during a game… Read More ›

Nashville, TN – Donald Trump Courts Tea Party Voters, Says Will Decide Soon Whether To Mount A Third Party

Nashville, TN – Donald Trump Courts Tea Party Voters, Says Will Decide Soon Whether To Mount A Third Party

  Nashville, TN – Donald Trump will decide soon whether to mount a third party bid if he loses the Republican nomination for president, the… Read More ›

Marco Rubio on world leaders: Vladimir Putin a ‘gangster,’ Kim Jong Un a ‘lunatic’

Marco Rubio on world leaders: Vladimir Putin a ‘gangster,’ Kim Jong Un a ‘lunatic’

  Washington – When it comes to his assessment of world leaders, Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t pulling any punches: Russia’s run by a “gangster” and North… Read More ›

Hiker, 62, found injured but alive after 9-day search

Hiker, 62, found injured but alive after 9-day search

  The searchers were getting worried. Miyuki Harwood, 62, of Orangevale, California, had been missing in the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains for nine days. Search… Read More ›

Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway’s first black Jean Valjean, dies after fall

Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway’s first black Jean Valjean, dies after fall

  Actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, who made history as the first African-American to play the lead role in a Broadway production of “Les Miserables,” died Friday… Read More ›

Suspects in Austria truck tragedy proclaim innocence in court

Suspects in Austria truck tragedy proclaim innocence in court

Remand extended until September 29 for four alleged human traffickers after decomposed bodies of 71 migrants found in abandoned vehicle   Four suspected human traffickers… Read More ›