New Chief Rabbi Appointment Pitting Bennett Against Lapid

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Yesh Atid opposes both the Jewish Home candidate and the tricky legislation his appointment would require.

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UN Rebukes Assad, Rebels, Equally for Millions Suffering in Syria

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

6.8 million needy, 4.25 million internally displaced, 1.3 million refugees—out of a rapidly shrinking population of 20.8 million.

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One Boston Marathon Suspects Killed, Another Apprehended

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

New shootings and explosions in Boston. Suspects in Custody. Marathon Suspect #1 is dead.

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FBI Releases Pictures of Two Marathon Bomb Suspects

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Two days after a Saudi boy was falsely linked to the Boston Marathon bombings, and one day after Internet uses wrongly touted a teen as the terrorist, the FBI release picture of two prime suspects.

IDF’s Arizona Girl Receives ‘President’s Excellence Award’

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Nira Lee grew up in Tempe, Arizona as a Zionist but firmly planted in the USA, until she saw the destruction following the Second Lebanon War during a visit to Israel. Now she is Lieutenant in the IDF.

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Gaza Terrorists Resume Aerial War on Israel

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Hamas is either playing war games again or again are losing control of rival terrorists. Either way, two rockets or mortar shells hit southern Israel, which probably will respond “proportionately.”

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CUNY Claim of No Constitutional Violations at BC BDS Event Flawed

Posted on: April 19th, 2013

The standard for judging whether constitutional rights can be abrogated is not, as the Investigators claimed in their Report, based on sincerity, but on whether or not, at the very least, there is a reasonable belief that the Four were about to disrupt the BC BDS event. The Investigators stated clearly that there was no such reasonable belief at the time the Four were ejected from the event. Therefore, based on the evidence provided in the CUNY Report, it would appear that the constitutional rights of the four Jewish pro-Israel students were violated.

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‘Righteous Muslim’ Exhibition Planned for those Who Saved Jews

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

The London Board of Deputies of British Jews is launching a new Righteous Muslim Exhibition with 70 photographs and stories of Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II, the BBC reported. The Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Israel honors ‘Righteous Gentiles” who helped save Jews from the Holocaust gas chambers and death [...]

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Brooklyn Woman Admits Stealing $1 Million from Jewish Cemetery

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to charges that she stole $1 million from a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island. Ilana Friedman, 51, admitted to grand larceny in Staten Island Supreme Court on Tuesday. Friedman, former director of the United Hebrew Cemetery, stole the money over a six-year period. Friedman and her husband, Arthur, the cemetery’s [...]

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Bill Clinton Tried to Block Israel’s Taxing Newly-Found Gas

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Bill Clinton’s wealth is more than $55 million. He gets a double dividend as a paid energy lobbyist and being a “friend” of Israel by lobbying against the government’s taxing newly-found gas.

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Yale Elects First-Ever Israeli Student Union President

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Yale University students have Jerusalem-born native Daniel Avraham as the first Israeli president of the Student Union. Avraham, a 24-year-old sophomore, learned at the Gymnasia Herzliya high school and is a former IDF intelligence officer. He is studying in the university’s ethics and economics program. Former Yale Student Union presidents include former U.S. Secretary of [...]

Britain’s Rabbi Sacks Says Thatcher as More like Moses than Aaron

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks paid tribute to Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral, saying that “in public, her leadership style was more like Moses than Aaron, more conviction and confrontation than compromise and conciliation. “But we need both. Aaron was more loved than Moses. The sages said that when Aaron died, [...]

Unions Threaten To Ground El Al Flights Sunday

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Unions at El Al, Arkia and Israir Airlines announced Thursday they will ground all planes beginning Sunday if the government carries outs plan to approve the open skies agreement at Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting. El Al workers committee chairman Asher Edry told Globes, “We demand that all the promises made to us before the agreement [...]

TIME Lists Yair Lapid as One of Top 100 Influential Leaders

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Yair Lapid is handsome, charismatic and ego-centric, all that takes to become a political leader and for TIME Magazine to rate him as one of the world’s top 100 influential people in the world.

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Winnipeg Rabbis Split on Bill Favoring Gay-Straight Clubs

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Two leading Orthodox rabbis in Winnipeg are split over part of a bill, proposed last December, which would require any school that receives provincial funding to allow students to create a gay-straight alliance club. Fearing that Christian schools will be forced to accept such clubs, many Christian leaders in Manitoba have opposed the bill. But [...]

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5 Arabs Indicted for Temple Mount Shooting Plot

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

The gang was supported by the Hamas military wing, the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigade, and Fatah's military arm, The Al-Aqsa martyrs Brigade.

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Al-Qaida Cell Arrested in United Arab Emirate

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested suspected members of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist cell that was plotting to carry out operations in the region,. The WAM news agency reported that security authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested a terrorist cell affiliated with Al-Qaeda. All seven people have Arab nationalities. An official source [...]

IDF Soldiers Clean Up Desecrated Hebron Monument

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

During a Passover tour, participants were shocked to see the monument of Joshua Salome desecrated with black spray paint.

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Parents Fight Textbook Trivializing Murder of Israeli Civilians

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Cardoza-Moore questions why anyone would debate whether it's right to attack innocent people for political reasons.

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Israeli Skunk Spray Effectively Dispersing Violent Arabs (2 Videos)

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

The "aromatic" spray is shot from a water cannon, soaking the target in gut wrenching, putrid smell.

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