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Yishai and Widen on Violence in the Middle East
 
Israel’s President’s Conference Kicks Off with Birthday Bash

June 19, 2013 - 1:30 AM
 
Search for Kidnapped Soldier Cancelled

June 19, 2013 - 12:32 AM
 
Flatbush Yeshiva: Bumping Students from Plane Was not Anti-Semitic

June 18, 2013 - 6:41 PM
 
Turbulent Middle East Guarantees Increased US Arms for Israel

June 18, 2013 - 6:22 PM
 
Russia Claims Iran Ready to Stop Enrichment of 20% uranium

June 18, 2013 - 4:58 PM
 
Robert DeNiro and Peres Talk About Iran

June 18, 2013 - 4:00 PM
 
Dov Hikind’s Mother Dies at 85; Burial Today

June 18, 2013 - 3:22 PM
 
Screams of Rabin Blood Libel after Fake Posting of Lapid as Hitler

June 18, 2013 - 2:51 PM
 
Ed Koch’s Tombstone Bears Wrong Year of Birth

June 18, 2013 - 2:21 PM
 
Women of the Kotel Rev Up the Provocation with a Sefer Torah

June 18, 2013 - 2:00 PM
 
98-Year-Old Charged with Execution, Torture of Jews

June 18, 2013 - 1:28 PM
 
Park Slope Welcomes Anthony Weiner with Open Arms

June 18, 2013 - 11:40 AM
 
Clinton’s $500K Advice: Learn to Live with Palestinian State

June 18, 2013 - 11:01 AM
 
Orthodox Yeshiva Graduates Class of Female Leaders

June 18, 2013 - 10:51 AM
 
Bennett: Police Got ‘Wide Powers’ to Catch ‘Price Tag’ Activists

June 18, 2013 - 10:22 AM
 
The RCA Supports Rabbi David Stav

June 18, 2013 - 8:04 AM
 
Film of Israeli Rape Victim Who Became Miss World, at AFI

June 18, 2013 - 6:19 AM
 
Streisand Spouts Off on Women ‘In Foreign Land of Israel’

June 18, 2013 - 12:28 AM
 
‘What’s Bad for the Goose is Worse for Kosher Slaughter’

June 17, 2013 - 10:56 PM
 
Los Angeles Freeway Project Causes Havoc with ‘Eruv’

June 17, 2013 - 10:23 PM
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Babs, Clinton, Peres and Netanyahu
 

Israel’s President’s Conference Kicks Off with Birthday Bash

Posted on: June 19th, 2013

NewsIsrael

The Israel President's Conference kicked off on Tuesday night with a star-studded 90th birthday bash for Shimon Peres, along with an obsessive repetition of the word "peace" over and over again.

 

Search for Kidnapped Soldier Cancelled

Posted on: June 19th, 2013

NewsIsraelIDF

The IDF Spokesperson said that the search for a possibly kidnapped soldier has been called off this evening, after all soldiers in the Binyamin and Shomron region had been accounted for. Two separate soldiers reported seeing an IDF soldier being driven off in the back of a Palestinian car in the early evening. The IDF [...]

 

Flatbush Yeshiva: Bumping Students from Plane Was not Anti-Semitic

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsAntisemitism

The decision to eject the senior class of the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn from a flight was not anti-Semitic, an internal school report found. AirTran Airways “abused its discretion” in forcing the 101 students off the early morning flight June 3 to their senior trip in Atlanta, according to the report, obtained by the [...]

An IAF BOEING 707 fueling three F-15 aircraft in flight, facilitating long-range missions, such as those being planned against Iranian nuclear sites.
 

Turbulent Middle East Guarantees Increased US Arms for Israel

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsEye on Palestine

What’s more important to the US, another Arab state within Israel’s current borders or the Iranian nuclear threat? The answer is in expected US arms to Israel. Despite budget cuts, it will increase.

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Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility, one of several nuclear site where Iran has blocked international inspectors
 

Russia Claims Iran Ready to Stop Enrichment of 20% uranium

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsIran

Russia is now Iran’s spokesman. It says Iran is ready to stop enriching 20 % uranium. The West, of course, must respond by lifting sanctions, while Rohani says Iran won’t all halt all enrichment.

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Robert DeNiro and Peres Talk About Iran

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsIran

American actor Robert  De Niro landed in Israel with his son Tuesday morning for a 24-visit, highlighted by his appearance at this evening’s birthday bash for President Shimon Peres, who turns 9o on August 2. DeNiro, who is not Jewish, met with the president at his Jerusalem home, and among other topics, they spoke about [...]

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Dov Hikind’s Mother Dies at 85; Burial Today

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsHolocaust

Frieda Hikind, mother of New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, died on Noonday at the age of 95. Her funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. (EDT) at Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Boro Park. Mrs. Hikind suffered a massive stroke last week after having been hospitalized for several weeks in Maimonides Hospital. She was born in Czechoslovakia [...]

Yair Lapid dressed up as Hitler in a fake Facebook posting
 

Screams of Rabin Blood Libel after Fake Posting of Lapid as Hitler

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsIsrael

Knee-jerk leftists still are alive and sick. An equally sick mind posted on Yair Lapid’s Facebook page a picture of him dressed as Hitler. A PR agent immediately linked the fake posting with “the black days before the murder” of Rabin

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Ed Koch’s Tombstone Bears Wrong Year of Birth

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsJewish

The tombstone of the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch shows his year of birth as 1942 and not 1924, due to what the engraver said was a “human error” that he will correct in the next three weeks. Koch was so concerned about his tombstone that he worked with a professional for eight [...]

The WOW's Anat Hoffman holding a torah scroll in confrontation with police on July 12, 2010.
 

Women of the Kotel Rev Up the Provocation with a Sefer Torah

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsIsraelGovernment

It's Revolutionary techniques 101: every time you reach a goal – start looking for the next one.

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98-Year-Old Charged with Execution, Torture of Jews

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsNews Briefs

On Tuesday, prosecutors in Budapest, Hungary, charged a 98-year-old who is listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as the most wanted war crimes suspect, for helping to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War II, Reuters reports. Laszlo Csatary, who in 1944 served as police commander in the Nazi-occupied eastern Slovak city of Kosice, was [...]

Anthony Weiner campaigned in Park Slope Sunday.
 

Park Slope Welcomes Anthony Weiner with Open Arms

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsLocal

“Hey Anthony, you’re the only one that can win and keep us on the right track!”

 

Clinton’s $500K Advice: Learn to Live with Palestinian State

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsEye on Palestine

There is no alternative to a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Bill Clinton said at an event to honor Israeli President Shimon Peres. Clinton was speaking Monday night at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot in honor of Peres’ 90th birthday. “Your neighbors are still your neighbors,” the former U.S. president said of the [...]

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Sara Hurwitz, dean of Yeshivat Maharat.
 

Orthodox Yeshiva Graduates Class of Female Leaders

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsJewish

Upon completion of Yeshivat Maharat’s four-year program, each graduate is qualified and equipped as a new kind of leader in the Orthodox community and beyond.

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This car was set ablaze last week in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
 

Bennett: Police Got ‘Wide Powers’ to Catch ‘Price Tag’ Activists

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsIsrael

"There is a small group of evil conspirators who want to generate a chain of hatred and violence between Arabs and Jews in our country."

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The RCA Supports Rabbi David Stav

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsJewish

The Rabbinical Council of America on Monday sent Rabbi David Stav, a Religious Zionist candidate for the post of Israel’s Chief Rabbi, a letter of encouragement, stating the organization’s full support: To the Honorable Rabbi David Stav Shlit’a, Rabbi of the town of Shoham, Chairman of the Rabbinical Organization Tzohar, the Rabbi of the Ezra [...]

Just weeks before Linor Abargil became Miss World, the Israeli fashion model was brutally raped. A movie about her story, Brave Miss World, will be shown June 21 and 22 in the 2013 AFI Docs Film Festival
 

Film of Israeli Rape Victim Who Became Miss World, at AFI

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsIsrael

Tied up and raped at knifepoint, Linor Abargil was able to escape, to press charges, to find other victims of the same rapist, and make a documentary about how to speak out. Oh, and she was crowned "Miss World" just seven weeks after being raped.

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Carrying a Wounded Friend
 

Carrying a Wounded Friend

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsPhotos

The trick to lifting up a buddy who’s been injured is to grab him from the middle. If you manage to divide his weight equally on either side of your shoulder, you should be able to schlep him a good distance without feeling much pain. The downside is – he’s probably going to feel a [...]

'Dr." Barbra Streisand speaks about women in her speech at Hebrew University Monday
 

Streisand Spouts Off on Women ‘In Foreign Land of Israel’

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

NewsHaredim

Streisand loves Israel – she even visits the country once in a while. She gives lots of money. And she can’t resist a chance to preach about women’s rights in Israel but admits it is a "foreign land.”

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If Israel prohibits the import of products from force-fed geese, it could endanger Kosher slaughtering in Europe, a Paris rabbi warns
 

‘What’s Bad for the Goose is Worse for Kosher Slaughter’

Posted on: June 17th, 2013

NewsEurope

Israel may ban the “foie gras” delicacy because it is made from force-fed geese. If Israel is so concerned about animal rights, European Jews may face another aim to ban kosher slaughter.

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