While the US Is Aiding Abbas, the EU Says He’s Crooked

Posted on: October 14th, 2013

Abbas is a master schnoorer. The US forked over another $!48 million to Ramallah, which is peanuts to the $2.7 billion the EU says it wasted. Abbas has no money to pay workers – again – and blames Israel.

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Update: Egypt Wrongly Identified US Citizen Who Hanged Himself

Posted on: October 13th, 2013

Egypt may be in big trouble with the US, which already has suspended some military aid.Cairo held an American citizen in jail for six weeks without formal charges. Now he has committed suicide.

Elbit-Rockwell Helmet with Night Vision Camera Sways Pentagon

Posted on: October 13th, 2013

The Pentagon is suspending work on a second helmet for the F-35 jet in favor of exclusive use of the helmet developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems along with Rockwell-Collins. American defense officials said it ditched the second helmet after Elbit-Rockwell made improvements in the helmet, including a better night vision camera, saving the Pentagon millions […]

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De Blasio Intervened to Save Anti-Israeli Protester from Jail

Posted on: October 13th, 2013

Bill de Blasio intervened in in charges against a teacher at his daughter’s school and who protesting Israel’s policies in Gaza in 2004 and helped him avoid a jail term, The New York Daily News reported Sunday. Documents that now are available show that while de Blasio, leading candidate for mayor, was a city councilman, […]

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Rav Ovadia Comment Earns Lhota the Haredi Wrath

Posted on: October 13th, 2013

Bill de Blasio may well be measuring the drapes of Gracie Mansion as a new poll shows him with a commanding 44 point lead.

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UC Berkeley’s Jewish Student Union Rejects J Street

Posted on: October 12th, 2013

The Jewish Student Union at the University of California, Berkley has denied membership to a college branch of the self-labeled “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby group J Street, citing its violation of the student union’s bylaws through the hosting of speakers who demonize Israel. J Street U’s membership was voted down 8-2, marking the second time the […]

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YU Employee with Abuse Conviction No Longer At University

Posted on: October 12th, 2013

Yeshiva University has terminated Akiva Roth, 42, after past sexual misconduct came to light, officials said Friday.. The university admitted that it had “erred” by allowing Roth to begin teaching before his background check was completed. Roth, who had been hired as a Hebrew teacher at Yeshiva College, had pleaded guilty to four counts of […]

VP Biden Meets with Yair Lapid in Washington

Posted on: October 11th, 2013

Yair Lapid, Israel’s Finance Minister and leader of the number two Yesh Atid party in the coalition government, met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials Thursday. Lapid, who was in Washington to attend a round of World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, sat down with Biden, Treasury Secretary Jack […]

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Iran against the World, Netanyahu Alone against Iran

Posted on: October 11th, 2013

Mass media adopt Iran’s sweet talk with an internal gag order on bad talk, such as Iran’s drawing a red line that is on the other side of uranium enrichment. Netanyahu, a lone voice, goes on British media blitz.

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NY Arrests 2 in Plot to Help Taliban ‘Cut US Soldiers to Pieces’

Posted on: October 11th, 2013

Have Taliban’s tentacles reached Queens? NY police arrest two NY Muslims for planning to fund a Taliban plot “cut US soldiers to pieces. Their lawyers call the charges outrageous. They are “good US citizens.”

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D.C. Theater Retools Controversial Play about Israeli Arabs

Posted on: October 11th, 2013

A Washington Jewish theater funded in part by the local Jewish federation scaled back its plans to produce a controversial play concerning how Israeli Arabs were treated when Israel became a state. Rather than showing the entire play, Theater J instead will present “The Admission” as a workshop in which viewers will be invited to […]

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FBI Arrests NY Rabbis for Beating Husbands Who Refuse Divorce

Posted on: October 10th, 2013

Many Jewish women suffer as “agunahs,” unable to re-marry because their husbands refuse them divorces. Four Jews, two of them rabbis, allegedly took the law into their hands and beat husbands until they agreed.

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Teva to Fire 5,000 Workers Worldwide

Posted on: October 10th, 2013

Israel’s giant generic Teva Pharmaceuticals firm will fire  by the end of next year 5,000 employees around the world, including hundreds in Israel, as one of the “steps to accelerate the reduction of costs and to optimize its structure.” Most of the layoffs will be outside Israel, said Teva CEO Jeremy Levin, who moved to […]

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Brooklyn Boy Killed By Van One Month before Bar Mitzvah

Posted on: October 10th, 2013

A Brooklyn boy was struck and killed by a van Tuesday night, one month before his bar mitzvah. Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, 12, was hit on Prospect Park West in the Park Slope neighborhood after chasing a ball into the street, the New York Daily News reported. The boy was pronounced dead soon after arriving at nearby […]

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Obama Tries to Buy Democracy in Egypt with Cut in Military Aid

Posted on: October 10th, 2013

Strike one: Obama turns his back on Mubarak in favor of radical Muslims. Strike two: He turns his back on them and backing another non-democratic regime. Now he tries for strike three by cutting military aid.

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Report: YU Hired Faculty Member Convicted Of Sex Contact with Boys

Posted on: October 9th, 2013

Yeshiva University hired a new faculty member convicted of inappropriate sexual behavior with boys, according to the Forward. The university, which is facing a major lawsuit concerning its handling of allegations of sexual abuse over several decades, has hired Akiva Roth, who pleaded guilty in 1997 to four counts of lewdness against several boys he […]

Another Israel Pharmaceutical Firm Goes to NASDAQ

Posted on: October 9th, 2013

Kitov Pharmaceuticals accounted it plans to apply for listing on the NASDAQ exchange, joining Israel-based Teva and Kamada that are traded on Wall Street. Kitov is hoping for approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after its Phase III clinical trial of a combination drug for the treatment of hypertension and pain relief. […]

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Israelis Star in Nobel Prizes, so Why Doesn’t BDS Boycott Them?

Posted on: October 9th, 2013

If the Boycott Israel movement were intellectually honest, it would condemn the Nobel Prize judges for awarding Israelis. Let’s see how many pro-boycott academics will snub Israel’s universities.

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Esquire’s ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ Scarlett Johansson Jewish and Liberal

Posted on: October 9th, 2013

Johansson is registered as an independent and campaigned for Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

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White House to Announce Changes in Egypt Aid Policy

Posted on: October 9th, 2013

The Obama administration said it will soon make an announcement regarding its aid package to Egypt but denied that “all military assistance” would be cut. A White House statement anticipating such an announcement came Tuesday evening in response to reports that the United States would cut off defense assistance to Egypt. “The reports that we […]

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