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Yishai and Widen on Violence in the Middle East
 
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
 
Egypt Fears Gaza Terrorists Planning Anti-Government Protests

June 17, 2013 - 9:55 PM
 
Montreal’s First Jewish Mayor Arrested in Corruption Crackdown

June 17, 2013 - 8:10 PM
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Many Ashkenazi Jews still fast on the B'hab days—an acronym meaning Monday-Thirsday-Monday. Now the 5:2 diet is taking over the UK and the US – using the same principles.
 

Ancient Jewish Ritual Takes Over Dieting World

Posted on: June 14th, 2013

NewsEurope

"The Fast Diet" closely resembles a spiritual tradition of serial fasting.

In a letter sent to Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center threatened to take legal action if he and other recepients do not immediately discontinue their boycott campaign against Israel.
 

Tel Aviv Group Threatens Australian BDS Professors with Legal Action

Posted on: June 13th, 2013

NewsAntisemitism

The Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 made BDS actions unlawful.

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"Governor Stanley Fischer will be remembered as the Israeli Alan Greenspan. It won't be long before everyone realizes the magnitude of his mistakes, and the fact that the responsibility for much of the financial crisis in the country rests on his shoulders."
 

Economist: Fischer Left Scorched Earth, Deep Recession Coming

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

NewsEurope

Fischer's strong shekel is destroying Israel's two main industries—manufacturing and agricultural exports and tourism—which are struggling to compete over global markets.

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Ahmed al-Tayeb is the Imam of al-Azhar and president of al-Azhar University. His message to Pope Francis: before we can resume relations, you should tell the world Islam is a peaceful religion.
 

Imam: Pope Must Say ‘Islam is Peaceful’ to Renew Ties With Islam

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

NewsEgypt

The Muslim leader of al-Azhar offered to renew ties with the Vatican, but strongly suggested Pope Francis start off by proclaiming that Islam is a peaceful religion. A Coptic organization has suggested that Muslim leaders are the only ones who can make Islam a peaceful religion, and encouraged the Imam to take on that task.

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Israelis are snapping up smartphones and using them more for surfing the Internet more than another cuntry
 

Savvy Israelis Ahead of US in Smartphone Internet Use

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

NewsGlobal

Israel often can be seen with two cell phones, one in each ear. Smartphones have been around in Israel only since 2009 but already are in most Israeli’s hands. No wonder Waze was made in Israel

Vladimir Putin manages to tell the truth and says S-300 anti-aircraft missiles are not on the way to Syria, at least not yet.
 

Putin Actually Tells the Truth: No S-300 Missiles in Syria – Yet

Posted on: June 4th, 2013

NewsEurope

News from Russia: Putin says he has not yet shipped any S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. Even bigger news: Putin is telling the truth for once.

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PrePex
 

Non-Surgical Israeli Circumcision Device Will Slow Spread of AIDS

Posted on: June 4th, 2013

NewsGlobal

The PrePex is the only circumcision method, aside from conventional surgery, approved by WHO.

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Greenpeace activists,dressed as the sun,infiltrated Israel's terminal for offshore natural gas Monday morning.
 

Greenpeace Infiltration May Have Prevented Terrorist Attack

Posted on: June 3rd, 2013

NewsGlobal

Thank God it was Greenpeace and not Hezbollah. If terrorists, instead of activists, had entered Israel’s natural gas terminal and roamed freely for 90 minutes, it would have been a mass catastrophe.

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Marijuana has been discovered by a University of Tel Aviv researchers to be able to prevent brain damage
 

Tel Aviv U Researcher Says Marijuana Can Halt Brain Damage

Posted on: May 31st, 2013

NewsGlobal

Marijuana is known to have therapeutic qualities. A Tel Aviv Univ. professor now says a very low dosage of grass also can prevent brain damage. A new study may reach the same conclusion for the heart.

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Russia shows off its S-300 anti-aircraft missile system at a military parade in Moscow
 

Israeli Intelligence Officials in Russia to Stop Missile Sale

Posted on: May 30th, 2013

NewsGlobal

Everyone is going nuts over Assad’s statement that he already has received Russia’s sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. But when did Assad ever tell the truth?

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Jerry Lewis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, May 23, 2013.
 

Jerry Lewis: Still Can’t Watch Female Comics (Video)

Posted on: May 30th, 2013

NewsEurope

When asked who were his favorite female comedians, he named Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds.

PA Foreign Minister Riyad Malki
 

Israel Comes to its Senses, Cancels UNESCO Mission

Posted on: May 21st, 2013

NewsGlobal

The mission was originally supposed to arrive in Jerusalem on Monday.

 

Syrian Army Completes S300 Training in Russia

Posted on: May 18th, 2013

NewsGlobal

The first anti-aircraft missiles may be delivered to Syria within 2 months.

 

Blue and White, All the Waze

Posted on: May 13th, 2013

NewsGlobal

Waze and Facebook have reached an impasse in their negotiations, but not over whether Facebook will buy Waze for 700 million dollars, or a clean billion, but over Israel, according to the Israeli site Telecom News. Facebook wants to close down Waze’s Raanana office, and transfer some of the developers to the U.S. While the [...]

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Netanyahu Views Chinese Wall ‘Security Fence’

Posted on: May 9th, 2013

NewsGlobal

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited the Great Wall of China on Thursday, allowing him to make the obvious comparison with Israel’s security fence, dubbed by leftists as the “Apartheid Wall. Unlike the Chinese Great Wall, the “wall” in Israel extends less than 10 percent of the total length of the fortification, [...]

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Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) CEO Shimon Fogel
 

Canadian Parliament to Discuss Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries

Posted on: May 7th, 2013

NewsGlobal

So far, Canadian government policy has focused only on Arab refugees.

Prime Minister Netanyahu visits a Technology exhibition  in Shanghai on an official tour this week
 

Chinese Media Ho-Hum on Netanyahu’s Visit

Posted on: May 7th, 2013

NewsEye on Palestine

Chinese media have reported Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s current visit as secondary news, reflecting China’s distance from the Israeli-Palestinian Authority issue. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is also in China, and his visit has gained slightly more attention than Netanyahu’s. The Prime Minister’s main mission is economic, and Israel’s trump card in any political dealings between [...]

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(Not) Only Netanyahu Can Go to China

Posted on: May 5th, 2013

NewsGlobal

Prime Minister Netanyahu is on his way to China on Sunday evening, but he won’t be the only one. PA President Mahmoud Abbas is also on his way. The two are not expected to meet – it is a big country after all. Netanyahu will be in China for 5 days to discuss economic agreements [...]

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abu Musab al Suri a/k/a Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, once al Qaeda's no.4, released by Syria last year to get back at U.S. for backing Syrian rebels, possible source of motivation for Tsarnaevs' terrorism
 

Online Jihadi ‘Mein Kampf’ Urging: ‘Attack Sporting Events’

Posted on: May 2nd, 2013

NewsGlobal

the global jihadi masterminds learned from the mistakes of the past, and the new style of operation, particularly for those in the non-Muslim arena, is going to be small cells, few connections, low cost munitions and high density, high profile crowds. "It's the al Suri Strategy come home to roost," Lacey told The Jewish Press.

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Mona Seif, nominated for Human Rights Award despite supporting and promoting terror against Israel.
 

Human Rts Orgs Nominate Anti-Israel Pro-Terror Woman for HR Prize

Posted on: May 1st, 2013

NewsEgypt

Will Mona Seif become, like Samira Ibrahim, one whose social media activity rocketed her to a spot in the global limelight, but then caused her ignominious downfall as well?

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