Local Imam, Interfaithers: ‘Block Pamela Geller’s L.I. Shul Talk’

Posted on: March 23rd, 2013

Geller says her speaking is nothing like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. However, trying to convince people that there is no threat from jihadists and Islamic supremacists, is like telling people in a burning theater that there is no fire, and they should stay in their seats and watch the show.

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No Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola in California

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

Coca-Cola may be missing from Passover feasts for the second year in a row in California, the News Tribune reported. The Coca-Cola Co. says it once again won’t be able to make “Kosher for Passover” versions of its flagship cola this year because of manufacturing changes that were made in the state. A spokeswoman for [...]

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Bennett on Obama’s speech: No Nation Is Occupier of its Homeland

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

"It's time for new, creative concepts to resolve the conflict in the Middle East."

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Rabbi to Work with Descendants of Forced Converts in Italy

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

Rabbi Pinchas Punturello will begin work in southern Italy and Sicily to reach out to the Bnei Anousim, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism centuries ago. Punturello’s posting is a joint project of Shavei Israel, an Israel-based nonprofit that helps strengthen and recover Jewish identity, and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. [...]

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Cypriot Court Convicts Hezbollah Operative

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

We received this press release from State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland: The United States applauds the government of Cyprus for its professional investigation and successful conviction in court today of Hezbollah operative Hossam Taleb Yaacoub on a range of charges involving his surveillance activities of Israeli tourist targets. Over the past year, we have seen Hezbollah engage in [...]

Rumor: Ex-President Katzav Committed Suicide

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

The prisoner and former president of Israel Moshe Katzav is alive and well in his cell in Maasiahu prison, where he is serving a 7-year sentence. But all day Thursday, the Israeli Prisons Authority was flooded with phone call from reporters in Israel and abroad, asking for information about his untimely death. A spokesperson for [...]

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former Chair of Presidents Conference , Dies at 95

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has died. Schacter, the first U.S. Army chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died Thursday. He was 95. Along with serving as chairman of the Presidents Conference from 1967 to 1969, he [...]

Obama Lectured Israelis, Promised and Applauded Arab Palestinians

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

So the west will continue pretending that: the PA is a non-terrorist political group deserving of continuing U.S. aid, the Israeli government is intransigent and unwilling to make concessions, and it is Israel which bears all responsibility for ensuring that a Palestinian state - created in its own image - comes into existence as soon as possible.

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Israelis Warned ‘Don’t Go Back to Egypt for Passover’

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Every year, a few thousand Israelis think there is nothing better to do on Passover but to celebrate the Exodus from Egypt by going back there, apparently thinking that terror is better then slavery.

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French Jews Sue Twitter for $50 Million over Anti-Semitic Tweets

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Twitter is being sued for about $50 million in France for failing to honor a court ruling which ordered it to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate speech. The Union of Jewish French Students, or UEJF by its French acronym, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday with a Paris correctional tribunal, according to the French news [...]

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The Trick Up Obama’s Sleeve Is an ‘Unannounced’ Freeze

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Skeptics who did not believe that Obama would not come with a game plan to force Israel back into talks on PA terms may be right. The NY Times reports that Abbas will accept an “unannounced” settlement freeze.

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Jewish TV Host Apologizes for Anti-Roma Rant

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

A controversy-courting Canadian Jewish television host apologized for a rant against the Roma people. Ezra Levant of the Sun TV network sparked widespread outrage in September when he referred to Roma as “gypsies” and “a culture synonymous with swindlers…one of the central characteristics of that culture is that their chief economy is theft and begging.” [...]

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Spider-Man Makes Exodus from Williamsburg for Passover

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Williamsburg, New York Haredim have finally convinced Columbia Pictures to halt filming of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ in order not to cause parking problems during the Passover holiday. “We expressed the importance for Spider-Man to pass-over filming during Passover and they have answered our call,” City Councilman Stephen Levin wrote on his blog. “Reducing the [...]

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Abbas’ Gift to US: A ‘Childish” Portrait of Obama and Lincoln

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave visiting President Barack Obama a portrait of his guest with Abraham Lincoln, the quality of which was panned in a Tweet published by the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. “Oh. My. Lord what is that gift Abbas just gave Obama? Is that a painting of Obama and Lincoln? Looks like [...]

Top German Jewish leader blasts Gov’t’s Weak Stand on Neo-Nazis

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Germany’s top Jewish leader has slammed the government’s decision not to join efforts to ban the country’s most powerful neo-Nazi party. “The decision of the Federal Government is disappointing and politically completely wrong,” Dieter Graumann, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in a statement Wednesday. “They chose hesitation and procrastination over [...]

Abbas Reportedly Will Accept ‘Unannounced’ Settlement Freeze

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas supposedly is willing to accept an unannounced freeze on building by Jews in Judea and Samaria in order to pave the way for a return to talks with Israel, according to The New York Times. The newspaper more often than not follows the Obama administration policy line and serves as [...]

Here Is What Obama Won’t See in Ramallah

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

President Barack Obama’s helicopter touched down in Ramallah Palestinian Authority headquarters shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday, preventing him from seeing the “unwelcome” signs that were posted in the area. President Obama immediately began discussions with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas after an extremely brief welcoming ceremony. Signs that Obama did not see, according to the Bethlehem-based [...]

NY Times: Iron Dome Not Nearly as Effective as Claimed

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

According to the critics, those explosions in the sky we've watched on You Tube, hailed as evidence of success, were, in most cases, just "interceptor warheads blowing up."

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Hebron ‘We Have a Dram’ March Culminates in Attack on Local Jew

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Some of the people were wearing masks with pictures of Obama on them. Most of the pushing and shoving centered around a banner sign they were carrying.

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Hamas Welcomes Obama with Rockets

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Four rockets were launched Thursday morning from Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip. Two fell in Sderot and Shaar Hanegev, and two fell inside the Gaza strip. There were no injuries, but a house in Sderot was hit.

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