Israel Shows Off $2 Billion in Precious Gems at Exhibition

The Israel Diamond Exchange hosted a four-day event this week, exhibiting $2 billion worth of diamonds and executing sales in the hundreds of millions...

Ethiopia-Born Model Wins Israel’s ‘Big Brother’

An Ethiopia-born model won the fifth season of Israel’s “Big Brother” reality show. Tahunia Rubel, 25, won the 1 million shekel prize, worth about $274,000,...

NY Times: No Smoking Gun in Syria Chemical Massacre

What happened to the intelligence intercepts implicating the Syrian government in the chemical attack?

IDF Closes Civilian Air Space in North

The IDF was scheduled to shut down civilian air space in the north as the United States prepares to attack Syria. Defense Minister Moshe...

Australian BDS Academics to Foot Legal Costs

Shurat HaDin argues that the support of Australian scholars of the BDS movement violates the Australian Racial Discrimination Act.

Fort Hood Killer Gets Death Penalty

A U.S. military jury on Wednesday sentenced Army psychiatrist handing Major Nidal Hasan to death for intentionally killing 13 soldiers and wounding more than...

Australian Ambassador Visits Syrian Casualties in Israel

J-Wire reported that Australian Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma and his wife Rachel made an official visit to the Ziv Medical Center in Tsfat,...

Syrian Christians Caught between Rock and Hard Place

Caught between the larger Sunni-Shi’a battles for supremacy in Syria, Christians are forced to contemplate an uncertain future as Western powers debate action against...

Court Dismisses Antisemitism Complaints against UC Berkley

Federal complaints accusing the University of California campuses in Berkeley and Santa Cruz of failing to curb hostile environments for Jewish students were dismissed. A...

Hamptons Eruv Group Suing Township in Federal Court

A group trying to have an eruv built in Long Island’s Hamptons filed a federal lawsuit after having its bid quashed by a zoning...

Vancouver Jewish Losing Fight to Stop Anti-Israel Bus Ads

The head of the Jewish federation in Vancouver and the Canadian city’s transit agency are at odds over the legality of an anti-Israel ad...

Concern: Some Iranian Jews Improperly Circumcised (Video)

It turns out that there exists a less invasive method of circumcision, which does not fully remove the foreskin.

Jewish Press Sponsors Republican Mayoral Forum (Video)

The candidates answered questions on bris milah, the cost of yeshiva education, plans for the city’s economy, and Stop and frisk.

Scott Stringer Visits The Jewish Press

Scott Stringer, Democratic candidate for New York City comptroller, recently visited The Jewish Press’s Borough Park offices.

Christine Quinn Visits The Jewish Press

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Democratic candidate for mayor, recently visited The Jewish Press’s Borough Park offices.

Crisis: Egypt May Stop Warships Headed for Syria at Suez Canal

The current Egyptian leadership may close the Suez Canal to warships in an effort to block a western attack on Assad's Syria

A Girl And Her Teddy Bear: Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center Treating Seriously Wounded Syrians

HAIFA – Despite being located nearly 50 miles from the Golan Heights frontier, doctors at Rambam Medical Center have been on the front lines in the battle to save a growing number of Syrian citizens.

For Israel, U.S. Response On Syria May Be Harbinger On Iran

TEL AVIV – Following reports of what was almost certainly a chemical weapons attack in Syria, the White House has made moves indicating it may be inching closer to military intervention in the civil war there.

IDF Chief: We Are Ready to Defend our Citizens against Every Threat

At an annual ceremony honoring fallen soldiers, Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz discussed the...

Stop Opening Up Your Gas Masks, People!

The Home Front Command has asked that the kits only be opened up upon receiving specific instructions from the IDF to do so.

Bus Crash near Hebron

A bus crashed near Kiryat Arba, injuring around 20 people

Brooklyn DA Contender Thompson: I’ll Be Champion of the Orthodox

"The accusation that I said I’m going to target the Jewish community is an outright lie."

450 Ethiopians Left Gondar for Final Aliyah Flights

The new immigrants’ relatives were on hand in Israel to greet them.

Human Rights Lawyer: Syrian Atrocities Due to Coddling

The atrocities are the direct byproduct of the ongoing impunity enjoyed by the Syrian Arab republic while conducting terrorist activities stretching back decades.

Photo: Unreliable Patriot Battery Deployed in Haifa

Patriot missile batteries were involved in three friendly fire incidents, resulting in the downing of allied planes.

Starting the School Year with a (Real) Blast (+Video)

Students at the Orot Etzion Girls School in Efrat began their second day of school with an evacuation due to a bomb scare.

Canaanite Ritual Stone Discovered in Northern Israel

Researchers were able to establish that this was later a place of Jewish dwellers.

Global Rosh Hashanah Recipes on JDC App

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) released a Facebook application that allows users to access Rosh Hashanah recipes from around the world. Dishes featured...

Israel and China to Increase Passenger Flights

In a sign of growing economic partnership, Israeli and the Chinese transportation authorities have signed an agreement to significantly increase the frequency of passenger...

Netanyahu: Israel Will ‘Respond Fiercely’ if Attacked by Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that while Israel is not part of the Syrian civil war, the Jewish state would “respond, and we...

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