Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

The Jewish Publication Society is about to release a 3-volume anthology titled Outside the Bible, with 3,301 pages of key texts of ancient Jewish literature from the Second Temple period, edited by Lawrence H Schiffman, James L Kugel and Louis H Feldman. It includes extensive commentary from more than 70 world-renowned experts and 29 new […]

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Study: Israel Third Largest US Partner in Science and Technology

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

The U.S.-Israel Science & Technology Foundation (USISTF) has released the 2013 “U.S.-Israel Innovation Index” that ranked Israel third among 16 nations considered to be the strongest partners of innovation through science and technology with the United States, using four key indicators that included government relationships, human capital, industry cooperation, and research and development synergy. Overall, […]

Canada Urged to Recognize Jewish Refugees from Arab Nations

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

The Canadian Center for Israel and Jewish affairs (CIJA) has called on the Canadian government to adopt the recommendations of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, which urges to “officially recognize” Jewish refugees from Arab nations and “to include all of the refugee populations as part of the overall […]

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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Top Index Hits All-Time High

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s flagship index the Tel Aviv 25 hit an all-time record high Wednesday, closing at 1,344 points and passing the previous closing level of 1,341.89 points set on April 21, 2011, Globes reported. Similar to Wall Street’s Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Tel Aviv 25 index consists of the largest 25 companies within Israel’s stock market. The […]

US Refusing to Condemn Ayatollah Khamenei’s Israel ‘Rabid Dog’ Comment

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

Big Satan OK with Supreme Leader beating on Little Satan.

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President Joel Bewailing YU ‘Substantial Deficits’

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

Yeshiva University President Richard Joel acknowledged the school was facing “substantial deficits.” In an email to faculty and staff obtained by JTA, Joel disclosed that the measures taken to shore up finances at the New York City university following the financial crisis in 2008 have been insufficient. “We intended to achieve a balanced budget by […]

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Wages of Hate: Gaza Drowning in Its Own Excrement

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

Normal people wouldn't celebrate this kind of misery, but the Hamas is not staffed by normal people.

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Another Bloodbath in Northern Sinai, 11 Egyptian Soldiers Killed

Posted on: November 21st, 2013

The carnage continued in the Northern Sinai as suicide bombers rammed a convoy of Egyptian military personnel on Nov. 20, 2013.

Iran Owes Terror Victims Billions of Dollars, Says Activist Lawyer

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

The US talks with Iran about easing sanctions, but an Israeli activist lawyer says Obama overlooks the fact that Tehran owes American terror victims billions of dollars.

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Iran Herds Jews with Torah Scrolls to Rally for Nukes

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

The Iranian Propaganda Ministry is getting hard up when it has to herd Jews, most of them elderly, holding Torah scrolls in Tehran to voice support for Iran’s nuclear development.

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London Rabbi Suing Billionaire Philanthropist over Property Deal

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

A Ukrainian billionaire living in London is being sued by his rabbi over a joint property venture. Rabbi Yonah Pruss claims that he and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, a philanthropist who is involved in the Chabad movement, entered into a deal to find, purchase and manage investment properties in Britain along with a surveyor, Colin Gershinson, according […]

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Khamenei Barks, ‘Israel Is a Rabid Dog’

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

Iran’s attempt to soft-pedal its nuclear program in talks in Geneva has not affected its rabid anti-Zionism, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei now calling Israel the “rabid dog” of the Middle East. “It came from the mouth of the rabid dog of the region – Israel – that Iran is a threat to the world,” […]

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White Supremacist Executed for 1977 Synagogue Killing

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

A white supremacist was executed in Missouri for killing a man at a St. Louis-area synagogue 25 years ago. The execution had been stayed Tuesday evening by two district court judges due to concerns over the drug used for the execution. The U.S. Supreme Court early Wednesday morning upheld the death sentence and the use […]

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Archaeologists Find Shiloh Altar Used During Temple Era

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

Shiloh, in Samaria, was the site of the first Tabernacle in Israel. Archaeologists now have found evidence that after Shilo was destroyed and Jews returned, they sacrificed even during the First Temple period.

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Haggadah Manuscript Found in a Garage May Fetch $1.5 million

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

The auction sale of an illustrated Haggadah manuscript dating back to 1726 is expected to bring in as much as $1.5 million, the London Independent reported Tuesday. An auctioneer discovered it in an Osem soup carton in the garage at a house in Manchester where he was carrying out a routine evaluation for the relatives […]

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PA Terrorists Widen Their Targets, Aim for Arabs and Jews

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

Palestinian Authority terrorists threw rocks and a firebomb at Jewish motorists in at least two locations in Judea and Samaria Tuesday, but they also widened their activities to include a PA official, whose empty car was riddled with bullets. Abu Zaida, a senior official for Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, said that shortly after he parked […]

Palestinian Authority Arabs Turn Their Anger on UNRWA

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

Palestinian Authority Arabs on popular service committees in U.N.-run villages, commonly known as refugee camps, are shutting down UNRWA offices and programs  in northern Samaria Wednesday and Thursday in protest of “systematic reductions” in services for residents, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency reported. Similar protests have occurred in Gaza where UNRWA is the dominant influence […]

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NY Times Concedes Error on Palestinian Authority Arab Photo

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

The public editor of The New York Times said she received hundreds of complaints last week after the newspaper used a large and sympathetic photograph of a distraught Palestinian Authority mother to illustrate a story about her son’s stabbing to death of a sleeping Israeli soldier sitting next to him on a public bus. The […]

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Ex-Teva CEO Jeremy Levin Says He Is Staying in Israel – for Now

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

Jeremy Levin, who moved to Israel last year to take over the helm at Teva Pharmaceuticals only to be fired last month, say he loves Israel and is staying here, at least for the time being. Unlike Stanley Fischer, who made aliya to take over the post of Governor of the Bank of Israel and […]

Israel Warns US: Iran Building ICBMs for YOU, Not for Us

Posted on: November 20th, 2013

Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev pointed out that Iran already has missiles that can reach Israel, that Iran is building ICBMs to reach North America and Western Europe.

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