Posts Tagged: Jewish News
Sudan, Syria Could Join UN Human Rights Council
The human rights group UN Watch urged the United Nations to oppose a bid by Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for a seat on the Human...
Parents of Dead Billionaire Heiress Eva Rausing Want Jewish Burial
Eva Rausing, who was found dead in her $109 million home in London this month, wanted to be buried in Sweden but her parents want...
Israel Uncovers Plot to Kidnap IDF Personnel
Members of a terrorist cell located in the village of Hizme, just north of Jerusalem, planned and attempted abductions of Israeli soldiers, in hopes of...
Dershowitz: J Street Undercutting U.S. Iran policy
Alan Dershowitz said J Street is "totally undercutting American policy toward Iran." According to the Harvard University law professor, the message of the group can...
Hamas Improves Rocket Capabilites After Successful Test Launch
Hamas's military wing recently test-fired a rocket into the Sinai Peninsula from the neighboring Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported, citing Egyptian media outlets. The...
Statehood Bid at UN May Cost Palestinian Authority U.S. Aid
Palestinian Authority (PA) official Khaled Mesmar recently said the U.S. has "threatened to cut off financial aid to the Palestinian Liberation Office in...
Egypt’s Copts Shun Clinton Over Meeting With Islamists
Amid the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power in Egypt, several Coptic Christian leaders in Egypt are refusing to meet with U.S. Secretary of...
Jerusalem YMCA Refuses to Display Israeli Flag
Organizers of a summer camp at the Jerusalem International YMCA refused to include an Israeli flag with a collection of national flags from...
As Secretary Clinton Comes a-Callin’ There is Nothing to Discuss
Mitt Romney isn't President yet, but for Israel, the strength of his candidacy is already paying off. Otherwise, why on earth would Secretary Clinton, having...
Obama’s Exclusion of Israel at Counter-terror Conference Raises Concern
Top security experts in Israel are worried about the Obama Administration's attitude to radical Muslim governments in the region and by Obama's willingness to freeze...
Where Hebrew is Leading the Way
Preserving scholarship, digitizing Hebrew text, and dramatically increasing access to archived scholarly materials written in Hebrew. Those are all likely outcomes following the...
Is Israel the Winner of the Arab Spring?
Israelis understandably feel imperiled by the misnamed "Arab Spring." Their country's three-decade peace treaty with Egypt is under assault, its strategic alliance with...
The Jewish Hamptons
The villages of Westhampton Beach, Southampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton and Sag Harbor, all located along the Atlantic shore on the east end of...
Fifty Shades of…
I was thinking of writing a bestselling novel called Fifty Shades of Black about a young Hasidic man in Williamsburg who decides to buy a...
