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When someone in the cheap seats yelled at him to “let it go,” Patinking responded, “I’m not letting it go! The Yiddish culture means too much to me."

“We work very hard to make sure we instill the right values, so it is disturbing.”

The new plan is intended to improve the personal safety of those ascending the mount and to prevent vandalism and desecration of the graves.

We at the Jewish Press online came up with a list of issues we will be following up during the Lieberman administration at the Defense Ministry, and the reader is invited to add more items.

The Palestinian Authority refuses to talk directly with Israel, relying on world leaders to intervene.

Police returned the body of the Bezeq technician-turned-terrorist who murdered a 60-year-old rabbi in the heart of Jerusalem. He was buried as a martyr.

On May 24-25, 1991, Operation Solomon brought nearly 15,000 Ethiopian Jews home to Israel in the biggest operation of its kind ever recorded.

A group of ambitious students and parents from Hod Hasharon last week shot a meteorological balloon 15 miles up, almost reaching the edge of the earth's atmosphere.

A red Nazi swastika sprayed on the sign of a synagogue has riled residents of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Intelligence from Mossad spy Eli Cohen helped Israel win the Six Day War.

Likud MK Miki Zohar informed PM Netanyahu he intends to quit. A replacement is already waiting.

Herzog did not explain how a 55% majority of the house can be considered "extremist" while the remaining 45% are the proverbial moderates.

IDF soldier Elor Azariya pleads not guilty to manslaughter charges after shooting an injured terrorist.

Neguise told the delegation members, pointing out Israel's advanced capabilities in the fields of irrigation, desalination, solar energy, medicine, education and tourism.

One attacker carried victims of the first attack to the emergency room of a state-run Asaad hospital and then detonated explosives.

Sanders will have a great deal of influence on the Democratic Party platform this year.

"Although we disagree as to the best way to reach peace, I appreciate your commitment to seek peace," Netanyahu told Valls.

Roditi was injured in the face and head when multiple bombs blew up at the Hizmeh checkpoint.

When the PM shook hands with the newcomer at the end of the Knesset Likud faction's first meeting of the spring session, he blurted, "Yehuda, it's the last time you're doing this to me."

"Mutual deterrence is not a valid concept for the Middle East."

The problems in the security cabinet were revealed as part of the lessons learned from Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in the summer of 2014 and from the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

Social work students from Yeshiva University are learning about trauma and resilience at Tel Hai College in Israel.

Firefighters pulled a driver from her car seconds before a tree fell on it.

"We have a mission to convert Muslims to Christianity. We have a mission to convert the people of all the non-Christian religions [except] Judaism."

An Arab terrorist failed in a stabbing attack on police north of Jerusalem.

PM Netanyahu told his French counterpart Israel is through with multilateral negotiations.

An Iranian military adviser claims its current arsenal is capable of wiping out Israel in 'under 8 minutes.'

Fridman, who has four children, the youngest is 10 and the eldest 22, told his Russian audience he wants his children to follow in his footsteps and create something on their own.

A rash of tall new watchtowers have sprung up on the Lebanese side of Israel's northern border, providing a bird's eye view into IDF and civilian activities.

Temple Mount activist and soon-to-be Likud Member of Knesset Yehuda Glick seized the final opportunity on Monday morning to visit the Temple Mount.