JCC Watch: Stop Giving Jewish Money to Fund Anti-Israel Activities

Posted on: June 13th, 2013

Pro-Israel groups are now turning to the UJA-Federation and asking that it stop providing funds to organizations which use those funds to promote virulently anti-Israel activists. If not, a "Close Your Wallet" campaign will begin this summer.

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Best Inebriated Muslim Excuse: IDF Got Me Drunk at Gunpoint

Posted on: June 13th, 2013

It took the IDF more than eight hours to draw up a response to the incident for the Jewish Press.

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Terror on the Roads: Second Shomron Shooting Attack in 24 Hours

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

Moments ago a second shooting attack occurred in the Shomron, in Hawara on Highway 60, between Tapuach Junction and Har Bracha. There were no injuries, but police identified multiple bullet hits on the armored bus. Last night’s attack occurred at the Jitt Junction on Highway 55, east of Kedumim, when Arab gunman opened fire on [...]

Hamas Plans More Executions to Stop Collaboration with Israel

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

Hamas is planning to put an end to collaboration with Israel by its citizens by simply killing them, perhaps by hanging them for the public to see. The policy of simply killing those who try to help Israel with information on intended terrorist attacks would end the phenomenon, according to Hamas’ thinking. Executions are not [...]

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Formula I Races into Jerusalem

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

The first-ever Formula 1-style race car event will be held in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday, to the delight of racing car fans and curiosity seekers and to the sorrow of small business owners who still are angry over traffic disruptions during Barack Obama’s visit earlier this year. The city has invested more than $4 [...]

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Rabbis and Secular Jews in Petition War over Jerusalem Area Mall

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

Ten rabbis have signed a petition to boycott a mall in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot because of “issues of modesty” while secular residents are organizing a demonstration in support of the shopping mall. The petition alleges that Haredi rabbis in the Ramot area struck an agreement with the mall developers on rules concerning modesty, [...]

Hope Fades For Revival Of Peace Process

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

JERUSALEM – Secretary of State John Kerry has, for now, postponed a scheduled trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority as prospects for reviving the peace process between high-ranking Israeli and Palestinian officials appear to be fading due to new demands by PA President Mahmoud Abbas that the Israeli government opposes.

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In Shift, Israelis Now Believe Assad Could Prevail In Syrian Civil War

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

There is a “real possibility” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “could survive Syria’s civil war and even prevail in it” against the rebels trying to topple him, Israeli International Relations and Strategic Affairs Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz told a group of foreign journalists in Jerusalem on Monday.

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‘Mincha Starts in 3 Miles’

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

Scenes of Jews davening on the side of the highway just as common in the Jersey Turnpike as they are in Israel, but the country’s north-south superhighway “6” toll road now has mobile synagogues.

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Mossad Discusses Iran and Syria with Turkish Intelligence Chief

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

Common enemies, Iran and Syria, have brought Israel and Turkey together. The Mossad chief reportedly flew to Ankara for a pow-wow Turkish intelligence. Is Assad linked to Turkish protests?

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Economist: Fischer Left Scorched Earth, Deep Recession Coming

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

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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Hagel and Ya’alon to Meet in DC Friday

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Ya’alon, will meet this week. A Pentagon official told JTA that the two defense chiefs would meet in Washington on Friday, but did not provide further details. Israel and the United States are closely cooperating in tracking Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and formulating [...]

Bank Governor: Israel’s Biggest Problem – Too Many Haredim

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

It was difficult to tell whether Fischer considers Haredi poverty the central problem, or just Haredi majority.

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Teva Stops Distributing Drugs from Suspect Factory in France

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

Several people died or have been hospitalized in serious condition after taking a drug that was released inadvertently in the packing of medicine treating pulmonary edema.

Hispanic TV Personalities Taste Israel

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

“It reaffirmed for me how important it is to have dinner with your family at home."

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Reform Movement New Meddling in Israeli Policy: the Bedouin

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

“Any plan to resettle members of the Bedouin community must be developed with leaders of that community rather than be forced upon them.”

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Rare Discovery of Mikveh in New England Rewrites US Jewish History

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

The mikveh barely existed in 19th century American, where Jewish immigrants turned against religion. But one has been found in Connecticut, and it is more similar those in Israel than in the US.

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PA Strikes Out again; Boulder Nixes Making Nablus ‘Sister City’

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

The Boulder City Council Monday night decided to leave the “peace process” for those with less common sense and overwhelmingly nixed a controversial proposal to adopt Nablus, the Arab version of the Biblical city of Shechem, as a sister city. The council voted 7-2 against the proposal, according to the local ABC outlet Denver Channel, [...]

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Savvy Israelis Ahead of US in Smartphone Internet Use

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

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

Rabbi Who Compiled Laws of the Sabbath Dies at 85

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, who compiled the widely used “Shmirat Shabbat K’Hilkhatah,” died Monday night in Jerusalem  at the age of 85. Tens of thousands of Jews rely on his two-volume book on the laws of Shabbat. He upgraded the first version more than 20 years ago to change several leniencies that he later prohibited. He [...]