Syrian Says Prime Minister Survived Car Bomb Explosion

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

Rebels, termed “terrorists” by the Assad regime, killed six people in a car bomb explosion in Damascus that failed to claim the life of its main target, Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi. Official state media broadcast the report of the car bomb, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed it. The apparent suicide attack was [...]

NY Officials Claim Chasidic Dress Code Violates Human Rights

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

When is a dress code legal and when it is a violation of human rights? That seems to depend on whether you are a Chasidic Jewish shop owner in New York.

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What’s Best for the Jews: Agencies Split Over Assad Vs. Rebels Options

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

So far, everyone agrees that the ongoing civil war has been a bonanza for Israeli security concerns.

British Mandate Boss Said Jews Were ‘Like Nazis’

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

The British High Commissioner of Palestine viewed Jewish fighters there in the 1940s as analogous to Nazis, newly published records show. On April 30, 1948, Alan Cunningham wrote to his superiors that as the Jews celebrated military successes, their “broadcasts, both in content and in manner of delivery, are remarkably like those of Nazi Germany.” [...]

IDF to Phase Out Use of White Phosphorus

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

The IDF said it will stop using shells containing white phosphorus, although the military’s controlled use of them is legal. Phosphorus generally is used to set up smokescreens to hide troop movement and was used in the Operation Cast Lead campaign in the winter of 2008-2009. The material can cause serious burns, but Hamas claimed [...]

Egypt Mediating Fatah-Hamas Unity, Urges Election Postponement

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

Egypt is urging Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to postpone elections while trying to convince the rival Hamas terrorist organization to drop demands for simultaneous presidential and legislative elections. Holding elections at this time, which already is four years after Abbas’ mandate has expired, would torpedo efforts for a unity government, sauces told the [...]

Rock-Throwing Terrorists Return to Route 443

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

Palestinian Authority Arabs Monday morning hurled rocks at motorists on Route 443, which connects Modi’in with Jerusalem, despite two checkpoints on the highway that also serves as alternate route to Highway 1 to Jerusalem. No injuries were reported. The Supreme Court three years ago ordered that the government open the road to Palestinian Authority drivers, [...]

Temple Mount Organizations Warning Netanyahu on Feiglin’s Visit

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

"We fear that this step will give our enemies the tools to continue their incitement to violence."

Standup Politics

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

This is the new U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, visiting troops at an undisclosed location in Southeast Asia, April 25, 2013. I’m looking at him, standing with the mike in his hand, loose, erudite, comfortable inside his skin, and I’m thinking—politicians didn’t used to look like this. I mean, put an exposed brick wall behind [...]

Reports of Israeli Attack on Syrian Chemical Weapons Site

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

There were many reports that Israeli jets flew over Syrian President's palace on Saturday, but did they also bomb a chemical weapons site nearby?

Steinhardt Judaica Collection at Sotheby’s Monday

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

An exquisite collection, across generations.

Bibi Capitulates to Muslim Threats, Orders Feiglin Off Temple Mount

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

The waqf has threatened "World war Three" should Feiglin go on the Mount on Monday.

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‘Jesus Prayers’ in Legislature Upset Florida’s Jewish Delegates

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

Can prayer in the name of Jesus be all inclusive just like a rabbi’s prayer? Jewish legislators in Florida say they don’t like being “JCd." Maybe they should get back at them with a few shofar blasts.

Device Invented in Israel Measures Milk in Breast

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

An Israeli invention will allow nursing mothers to measure how much milk her baby drinks at a feeding, and how much milk she has available in her breast. The device, MilkSense, is the first product to be developed by the Israeli startup Bradley and Luka. MilkSense uses electromagnetic signals to measure the amount of milk [...]

Bill Advances to Guarantee Women on Panel to Nominate Rabbis

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

The absence of Haredi parties in the government is already being, and women probably will be among those nominating Israel’s next rabbinic judges and chief rabbis.

Ban Ki-Moon Caves In, ‘Rejects’ Falk’s Boston Terror-Israel Link

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

It took five days, but United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finally said he “rejects” United Nations Human Rights Council official Richard Falk’s comments that cited “the American global domination project: and US-Israeli relations as provocations for the bombings. Falk, a Jewish American who has long history of accusing Israel of “war crimes” and “apartheid, [...]

Next Israel Shekel Bills to Feature Sephardi Jew

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

The Netanyahu government is going “politically correct” and will make sure the next serious of Israel shekel bills will feature a Sephardi Jew following last year’s four new banknotes that featured only Ashkenazi Jews. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he personally prefers that the “Sephardi shekel bill” feature poet Rabbi Yehuda HaLevy, calling [...]

US Likes New Israel Radar That Detects Mortar Fire

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

Rada, an Israeli company, is gearing up for production of its new tactical radar that the U.S. Army and the IDF may use to pinpoint the source of mortar fire and rocket fire. Rada has successfully tested its Multi-mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR), the independent Israel Defense website reported. The U.S. Army asked Rada to carry [...]

New York Synagogue Bomber Accomplice Sentenced to Jail

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

An Moroccan immigrant to the United States who plotted to blow up synagogues in New York City was sentenced on Friday to five years in jail and faces deportation after his release. Mohammed Mamdouh pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to commit terrorism and criminal weapon possession. He was an accomplice to Algerian immigrant Ahmed [...]

Dutch Jews ‘Vexed’ by Royal Event on Yom Kippur, Rabbi Says

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

A Dutch chief rabbi said his community was “vexed” because a farewell event for the Dutch queen was scheduled on Yom Kippur. “Jews are again faced with a reality in which they don’t belong and that is painful,” Holland’s chief interprovincial rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, told NRC Handelsblad on April 26. On Yom Kippur, the Day [...]