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Miiad: A New Video Calling On All Jews to Fight (Sort Of)

Miiad: A New Video Calling On All Jews to Fight (Sort Of)

The One Voice Foundation Launches “Miiad: A Fight to Unite” Miiad—A Fight to Unite , a delightful music video to promote Jewish unity, has just… Read More ›

‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ tops box office

‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ tops box office

“Exodus: Gods and Kings” toppled “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1″ from its perch atop the box office, but its opening weekend results fell… Read More ›

Rabbi Yehuda Glick was honored with a Human Rights Award

Israeli activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick, recently released from the hospital after an assassination attempt, was honored on Wednesday with a Human Rights Award by the… Read More ›

Obama my take serious action against Israeli settlement

Obama my take serious action against Israeli settlement

The Obama administration is looking into the possibility of taking action against the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as… Read More ›

Jews who escaped the Nazis to make movies in Hollywood

Jews who escaped the Nazis to make movies in Hollywood

Henry Koster had a long and successful career in Hollywood, directing a string of hits from the 1930s through the ‘60s. No doubt his best-known… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Strike Averted! Israel Union, Employers Agree To Minimum Wage Hike

Tel Aviv – Strike Averted! Israel Union, Employers Agree To Minimum Wage Hike

Tel Aviv – Israel’s main labour union signed an agreement with private- sector employers to raise the minimum wage, averting a general strike slated for… Read More ›

Russian Jew is beaten in Moscow

Russian Jew is beaten in Moscow

A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva. Shlomo (Fyodor) Romanovsky of Belarus was in the hospital and… Read More ›

London’s Deputy Mayor met with Jewish group to discuss anti-Semitic crime

London’s Deputy Mayor met with Jewish group to discuss anti-Semitic crime

Jewish groups had a meeting with London’s Deputy Mayor Steven Greenhalgh for Policing and Crime(MOPAC)  to discuss anti-Semitic hate crime at demonstrations and on social media.… Read More ›

United Nations -Israel Calls Iran Seeking Key UN Post ‘Absurd’

United Nations -Israel Calls Iran Seeking Key UN Post ‘Absurd’

United Nations – In a move that Israel on Tuesday compared to gangster Al Capone running the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iran is seeking… Read More ›

Prime Minister of Israel wants a new, bigger and more stable government

Prime Minister of Israel wants a new, bigger and more stable government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the secretary of government on Tuesday evening to dismiss Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. “In the… Read More ›

Jews and Muslims can be friends

Jews and Muslims can be friends

This past summer, Armin Langer, a 24-year-old rabbinical student in Berlin, came to speak at the Sehitlik mosque in Neukoelln, a district of the German… Read More ›

Israel could have an early national election

Israel could have an early national election

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, enmeshed in a cabinet crisis, said on Monday he would call an early national election unless rebellious ministers stopped attacking… Read More ›

Police ban activist Yehuda Glick visiting Temple Mount

Police ban activist Yehuda Glick visiting Temple Mount

Rabbi Yehuda Glick  — a Temple Mount activist — was banned from visiting the site after he was arrested in August in connection with an… Read More ›

Putin is super friendly with the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch

Putin is super friendly with the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch

Although Russia has historically not been considered the most hospitable place for Jews who wish to observe their religion – and the Russian Orthodox church… Read More ›

A Bavarian doctor confirmed as the new head of Germany’s Jewish organization

A Bavarian doctor confirmed as the new head of Germany’s Jewish organization

Josef Schuster was elected Sunday after standing unopposed for the presidency of Germany’s Central Council of Jews. The 60-year-old was born in Haifa, Israel, and… Read More ›

Jerusalem bilingual school was set ablaze

Jerusalem bilingual school was set ablaze

A joint Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem went up in flames and was vandalized by anti-Arab graffiti in a suspected arson and hate crime case on… Read More ›

Many French Jews flock to Montreal

Many French Jews flock to Montreal

When Dan Charbit and his wife, Gaelle Hazan, moved to Montreal from Paris two summers ago, it was meant to be a temporary fix —… Read More ›

Two masters of Physics who escaped the Nazis

Two masters of Physics who escaped the Nazis

In his 1998 play “Copenhagen,” Michael Frayn used the Heisenberg uncertainty principle — a cornerstone of modern physics — as a metaphor for the impossibility… Read More ›

Sam Katz, a US based philanthropist helps Israel with education

Sam Katz, a US based philanthropist helps Israel with education

Katz, a US based philanthropist, has been shaping the face of supplemental education in Israel for the past 25 years through the Youth Renewal Fund,… Read More ›

Gazans will be allowed to work in Israel

Gazans will be allowed to work in Israel

Construction Minister Uri Ariel is pushing a plan to grant permits that will allow Gazan construction workers to be employed in Israel for the first… Read More ›