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Havana – Cuba Says It Has A Right To Grant Asylum To US Fugitives, Despite Warming Of Ties

Havana – Cuba Says It Has A Right To Grant Asylum To US Fugitives, Despite Warming Of Ties

Havana -In the clearest sign yet that the communist government has no intention of extraditing America’s most-wanted woman despite the warming of bilateral ties, Cuba said… Read More ›

Netanya – Natural Gas Developers Challenged By Israel Over Monopoly

Netanya – Natural Gas Developers Challenged By Israel Over Monopoly

Netanya – On Tuesday, Israel’s antitrust authority said it will challenge the ownership structure of the country’s natural gas resources, a decision that could rattle… Read More ›

Israel – Menorah Causes Apartment Fire In Jerusalem

Israel – Menorah Causes Apartment Fire In Jerusalem

Jerusalem – A menorah placed too close to a door set fire to a Jerusalem apartment building on Tuesday, Israel Police reported. Three fire fighting… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Thousands Of Ukrainians Take Refuge In Israel Fleeing Civil War

Tel Aviv – Thousands Of Ukrainians Take Refuge In Israel Fleeing Civil War

Tel Aviv – Amid loud Hebrew music and green-clad soldiers waving Israeli flags, they streamed off the shuttle buses into Terminal One of Ben-Gurion Airport,… Read More ›

Paris – After Bullet Crashes Through Synagogue Window In Belleville, French Police Search For Suspects

Paris – After Bullet Crashes Through Synagogue Window In Belleville, French Police Search For Suspects

Paris – A bullet fired from an air gun crashed through a window of a Paris synagogue’s office. French police reportedly are searching for two… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel Official: Settlement Funding Up Before Vote A Political Ploy?

Jerusalem – Israel Official: Settlement Funding Up Before Vote A Political Ploy?

Jerusalem – In what opponents view as a political ploy aimed at gaining favor with hard-line voters, Israel’s outgoing government is pumping millions of dollars… Read More ›

American Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas

American Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas

For many Jewish Americans, the night before Christmas conjures up visions, not of sugar plums, but plum sauce slathered over roast duck or an overstocked… Read More ›

Israel’s authority will challenge the ownership of the country’s natural gas

Israel’s authority will challenge the ownership of the country’s natural gas

Israel’s antitrust authority said Tuesday it will challenge the ownership structure of the country’s natural gas resources, a decision that could rattle an increasingly important… Read More ›

Jews can’t be true Swedes unless they abandon their religion

Jews can’t be true Swedes unless they abandon their religion

A far-right Swedish Member of Parliament said last week that Jewish people can’t be true Swedes unless they abandon their religion. Björn Söder, the deputy… Read More ›

Rockland County, NY – Third Teen Charged With Hate Crime In Black Friday Mall Assault Spree

Rockland County, NY – Third Teen Charged With Hate Crime In Black Friday Mall Assault Spree

Rockland County, NY -18 year old Florend Gjevukaj of Yonkers, the third suspect sought by police in connection with an early morning Black Friday assault… Read More ›

Havana – Cuba: We’re Open To Obama’s Detente

Havana – Cuba: We’re Open To Obama’s Detente

Havana – Cuba says it’s open to every one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s moves to improve relations between the two countries and strengthen private… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Peres: You Can’t Feed The Poor With Declarations, Latet

Jerusalem – Peres: You Can’t Feed The Poor With Declarations, Latet

Jerusalem – Politicians must make eradicating poverty their top priority,  a, former president Shimon Peres said Monday, after the release of Latet’s Alternative Poverty Report. Peres… Read More ›

Paris – Man Rams Van Into Market In France Shouting “Allahu Akbar” , Injures 10

Paris – Man Rams Van Into Market In France Shouting “Allahu Akbar” , Injures 10

Paris – An official at the local prefecture told Reuters, a  man driving a van ploughed into a crowd strolling through a Christmas market in… Read More ›

Oy! A Hanukkah Oil Spill

Oy! A Hanukkah Oil Spill

This time, the Greeks have not claimed responsibility for the shortage – caused by the huge Israeli oil spill. Here’s a “Jewbellish The News” exclusive… Read More ›

Israel- Holocaust Survivors Should Be Enabled To Live In Dignity

Israel- Holocaust Survivors Should Be Enabled To Live In Dignity

President Reuven Rivlin has issued a call for Holocaust survivors to be able to live in dignity with sufficient funds for all their needs and… Read More ›

Ukraine- Rebel Leader Claims Dozens of Israelis fighting

Ukraine- Rebel Leader Claims Dozens of Israelis fighting

In an interview with a Russian Jewish media outlet earlier this month.A senior leader of the Moscow- backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine revealed that he… Read More ›

Obama: I’m Jewish ‘in my soul’ by David Suissa

Obama: I’m Jewish ‘in my soul’ by David Suissa

What will you tell the President when you see him?” was my daughter Eva’s first reaction when I told her I’d been invited to the… Read More ›

Cuban Jews And What To Expect

Cuban Jews And What To Expect

The United States and Cuba appear to be opening a new — and warmer — chapter in their relationship with the negotiated release of American… Read More ›

A Jewish Studies Professor Lays Behind Every Great Serial Podcast Host

A Jewish Studies Professor Lays Behind Every Great Serial Podcast Host

The “Serial” season finale ends with … a special thanks to a certain Jewish studies professor. No, this isn’t exactly a spoiler alert. Benjamin Schreier,… Read More ›

Living In A Palestinian City Amelia Wolf Still Celebrates Hanukkah

Living In A Palestinian City Amelia Wolf Still Celebrates Hanukkah

 An American Jewish college student named Amelia Wolf was living in the Palestinian city of Ramallah when the holiday of Hanukkah rolled around last year.… Read More ›