To date, the New York Times has published at least ten articles (op-eds disguised as news, real op-eds, letters) about the film The Third Jihad , which first appeared in 2009. The NYT -dominated campaign led to coverage in the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal , Fox News, and other mainstream media venues. Read More »
Boat around New York’s Statue of Liberty Israel news photo: Sighteseeing World Police arrested four people, charged with committing hate crimes, after a man was attacked in the Monsey area of the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York. Monsey has a large Jewish population, including sizable religious Zionist, hassidic and hareidi communities. Read More »
Meir Dagan Israel news photo: Flash 90 Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan one Wednesday once again weighed in on a potential military strike on Iran saying “Israel’s survival is not at risk. Read More »
King Abdullah Official White House Photo King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on Monday ordered the arrest of a Saudi columnist “for crossing red lines and denigrating religious beliefs in God and His Prophet,” the London-based Al Hayat daily reported. Read More »
9/11 bombing Israel news photo Nearly one-third of all U.S. terrorist attacks in a 38-year period took place in only five counties. Manhattan, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and Washington, DC are the leaders, according to a University of Maryland study. The research sponsored by the U.S. Read More »
President Obama worries many concerned Americans. As Obama begins his campaign to convince the American public that he is entitled to four more years in 2012, the silent majority against Obama must have its say. Read More »
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Avigdor Lieberman Israel news photo: Flash 90 Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio on Wednesday that Jerusalem and Washington have resolution, understanding, and agreement on how to deal with Iran. Read More »
Kathleen Sebelius Israel news photo: Official US photo Until now in this US presidential campaign, the cultural issues that were at the forefront of the 2004 campaign were considered irrelevant with everyone focused on the economy. Now that assumption may have to be revised. Read More »
13th MEU Exercise (Archive) Phan Shannon Garcia, USN Photo Diplomatic sources say Iran is accelerating uranium enrichment as the United States and eight other countries stage a major amphibious exercise against a fictional nation that looks suspiciously like Iran, Gulf News reported. Read More »
Natural gas storage tank Israel news photo: Wikimedia Commons/de: User: Igelball Israel has discovered a new off-shore gas field, this time even closer to Lebanon, which warns it will go to war to defend its claim on gas finds. The new field, dubbed “Tanin I,” is north of the giant Tamar field, both of them located off the Haifa cost. Read More »
Israeli Oranges Yehudit Zagdanski Tu B’Shvat, the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, is called the New Year of the Trees in the Talmud and falls this year on Wednesday, February 8th. Read More »
IDF hand-to-hand combat training Israel news photo: official IDF website Being an IDF commando sounds like a great thrill, but first you have to march with 50 pounds on your back in the hills of Jerusalem. The military has detailed a look at what goes into making a soldier into a commando. Read More »
Mitt Romney Gage Skidmore 2011 under CC 2.0 The writer is a political scientist and Arutz Sheva’s Global Agenda analyst. He is featured regularly in the Hebrew press and in the Jerusalem Report, lives in Tekoa. Read More »
Nabil Shaath Israel news photo: Flash 90 Fatah official Nabil Shaath on Monday said the new the new interim Palestinian Authority government to be headed by Mahmoud Abbas “need not recognize Israel.” “It is the PLO, not the PA, that recognizes Israel,” Shaath insisted in an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Arabic-language Al Quds . Read More »
Money (illustration) Israel news photo: Flash 90 Jona Rechnitz, an orthodox Jew from New York and graduate of Yeshiva University (YU), won $50,000 after betting that the Giants would emerge victorious in the Super Bowl and then announced he is going to donate his winnings to charity, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Read More »
Claude Gueant Israel news photo: Peter17/Wikimedia Commons French Interior Minister Claude Guéant, on record as wanting to cut immigration to France and for blaming immigrants for rising crime rates, has created the first real skirmish in the French presidential election. Read More »
Syrian soldiers kill youth Israel news photo: ShamSNN screenshot Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military assault on Homs Tuesday killed at least 48 people in eight hours, anti-government activists report U.S. Sen. John McCain urges military intervention. Homs, a center of anti-Assad demonstrations, was shelled for the fifth straight day. Read More »
Ismail Haniyeh Israel news photo: Flash 90 Gulf Arab nations are reportedly pressuring Hamas Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh to cancel his scheduled trip to Tehran. Arab opposition to Haniyeh going to Iran comes as the terror-leader visits Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar and secured promises for financial aid to his administration in Gaza. Read More »
Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation than the first chapter of Genesis, with its momentous vision of the universe coming into being as the work of God. Set against the grandeur of the narrative, what stands out is the smallness yet uniqueness of humans, vulnerable but also undeniably set apart from all other beings. Read More »
Hareidi religious man Israel news photo: Flash 90 The U.S. State Department has changed its travel advisory for tourists in Israel suggesting they avoid immodest dress not out of respect for the residents, but in order to avoid “assaults on secular visitors. Read More »
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Presidency of Argentina under CC 2.0 Argentina plans to make a formal complaint to the United Nations over British “militarization” of the Falkland Islands, the BBC reported Tuesday. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Britain’s recent actions were a “threat to international security. Read More »
Rick Santorum Gage Skidmore under CC 3.0 Dismissed by pundits and GOP insiders just days ago, Senator Rick Santorum won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and a non-binding primary in Missouri on Tuesday. Minnesota caucus results showed Santorum with 44.9%, of the votes, Paul 27.2%, Romney 16.9%, Gingrich 10.7%, and Others 0.3%. Read More »
Ben Gurion Airport Israel news photo: Flash 90 Is Ben Gurion Airport on “occupied” land? That is what Deltas Airlines said – until legal activists gave Delta a lesson in geography – and law. Read More »
Syrian President Bashar Assad Israel news photo: Flash 90 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s notion of security apparently includes using 123456 as a computer password. According to the site Mashable the Hacktivist group, Anonymous leaked Assad’s password while in the process of raiding his bureau’s emails and uploading them to the web. Read More »
Bashar al-Assad Syrian Government Photo Authorities in Germany have arrested two Syrian government agents in Berlin on charges they were spying on suspected Syrian opposition activists in the country, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported on Tuesday. Read More »
Lavrov Pushes for Reforms in Syria צילום מסך Senior Russian officials on Tuesday pushed for reforms in an emergency meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, The Associated Press reported. Read More »
Strike (file) Flash 90 The Histadrut labor federation launched a general strike as of 6: 00 a.m. (Israel time) on Wednesday morning, after failing to reach an agreement with the Treasury regarding the employment conditions of contract workers. Read More »
Rick Santorum Israel news photo: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will win the Missouri primary, CBS News has projected. The projection is based on 2,024 of 3,134 precincts reporting. Santorum carried 55 percent of the vote, while Mitt Romney, who has won three contests, took 25 percent. Rep. Read More »
Cypriot Defense Minister Demetrius Eliades and Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israel news photo: Flash 90 Israel is planning to place military aircraft in Cyprus, according to a Channel 10 News report on Tuesday. Read More »
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Israel news photo: Flash 90 Middle East expert Professor Moshe Sharon, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said on Tuesday that the reconciliation Read More »
Hassan Nasrallah Israel news photo: Flash 90 Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed on Tuesday the Israeli assumption that in the event of an Israeli attack in Iran, his terror group will respond and fire rockets at Israel. Read More »
Hevron Flash 90 The Israeli Education Ministry’s initiative, announced in March 2011, to fund educational tours of Hevron, has become the target of harsh criticism from the radical Left. The program aims to educate students, from both religious and national schools, about their heritage by taking them on tours of the area. Read More »
michael berg www.kabbalah.co.i About a thousand Kabbalah believers from countries such as the Netherlands, Cameroon, Venezuela and Colombia gathered in Jerusalem this week in an attempt to connect to the spirit of the late Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, who is considered the founder of the Kabbalah movement. Read More »
NASA tutorial says capital of Israel is Tel Aviv Israel news photo: screenshot of Remote Sensing Tutorial / NASA The United States was the first to put a man on the moon — but apparently its space agency is unable to figure out where the capital of Israel is on Earth. According to NASA’s Remote Sensing Tutorial, the capital of Israel is Tel Aviv. Read More »
Mitt Romney, 2011 Gage Skidmore 2011 under CC 2.0 Former Massachusetts’s governor Mitt Romney tried to lower expectations ahead of Tuesday evening’s Republican caucuses as Senator Rick Santorum looks set to win Minnesota – a state Romney carried four years ago. Read More »
Illegal Immigrants in Ashkelon Israel news photo: Flash 90 Ministry of Defense officials on Wednesday authorized plans to establish a detention center for illegal immigrants in southern Israel. The center will cost NIS 250 million and is expected to begin receiving detainees within six months. Read More »
Menora 8 Ben Bresky Reshimu, the popular downtown venue for music and spirituality has merged with the Shorashim organziation. The venue has ben renamed Menora 8, named after its street address. Read More »
Sheik al-Sabah White House Photo Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah has tapped caretaker prime minister Shaikh Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah to head the next government following the nation’s parliamentary elections. Read More »
Barak and Netanyahu Israel news photo: Flash 90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his top officials to stop “blabbing” about a potential military strike targeting Iran’s nuclear program. Read More »
כנסת ישראל אתר הכנסת Thousands of citizens have signed up for the Knesset’s “open house” events Wednesday, which will mark the parliament’s 63 rd birthday. The Knesset has had to close registration for the day’s events after being overwhelmed by thousands of applications in the past few weeks. Read More »
Lieberman Israel news photo: Flash 90 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met Tuesday in Washington. The meeting reportedly lasted for 45 minutes, during which they discussed Iran’s nuclear program, stalled negotiations between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and the destabilizing situation in Syria. Read More »
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Israel news photo: Flash 90 The Obama administration refused to comment on the reconciliation agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas in Qatar on Monday. Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the agreement, calling it “a moral blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism. Read More »
Citadel, Cairo Ahmed al Badawy/Creative Commons/Flikr Israeli politicians aren’t the only ones wrangling over how to deal with the Muslim call to prayer. Read More »
Dvir Moore Onikovski, OBM Courtesy: Family The family of IDF soldier Dvir Moore Onikovski, 20, who died at Soroka Medical Center on Tuesday says, “There was a major failure of the army.” Onikovski, who was training with Israel’s elite Sheldag (Kingfisher) unit, complained of weakness and fever over the weekend. Read More »
Syrian forces bomb civilian homes Israel news screenshot: dissident Souria website Assad staged a celebratory welcome Tuesday for visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov while his army escalated bombings of civilian homes. Read More »
Knesset plenum Israel news photo: Flash 90 The Knesset Ethics Committee decided Tuesday morning to deny MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra’am Ta’al) the right to take part in the assembly’s minute-long speeches for a month, starting immediately. Read More »
As Iran moves closer to the “immunity zone,” the decision to strike or forever hold its peace is quickly approaching for the state of Israel. The world has spoken and the international community is becoming increasingly more intolerant of the covert nuclear program Iran is suspected of operating. Read More »
Chabd Rabbi Zalman Shneor S Israel news photo: Chabad Info website Indian plans to deport a Chabad couple for “suspicious activities” after officials tracked them for a year. Read More »
Fatah Praises Terrorists on Facebook Israel news photo: PMW screenshot of Fatah Facebook page Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party, has thrown all caution to the wind and praises terrorists on its new and official Facebook site despite increasing U.S. Congressional concerns over incitement. Read More »
The expected fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime may be Hizbullah’s gain of chemical and biological weapons that could be used against Israel, officials fear. Read More »
Strike at Ben Gurion Airport (archives) srael news photo: Yoni Kempinski Israel may face another general strike Wednesday morning barring a last-minute solution. Flights from Ben Gurion Airport will be grounded. Read More »
Iranian flag Israel news photo: Wikimedia Commons / public domain Nearly half of likely voters think the United States should be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and that the U.S. should help Israel if it attacks Iran. Read More »
Aftermath of Carmel fire Flash 90 Minister of Interior Eli Yishai (Shas) intends to file a motion in the High Court against State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss and his use of the term “special responsibility” with regard to the minister and the failure to prevent the catastrophic Carmel fire in December 2010. Read More »
Air Force F-15 (file) Israel news photo: Flash 90 The Iranian Threat is like the Arab world’s threat to destroy Israel in 1967, and Israel must attack Iran now, a Harvard University history professor told Newsweek . He said the he biggest danger is Western complacency. Read More »
McArthur at Hatzerim IDF Website IAF Flight Academy cadets met with American astronaut Col. William McArthur last week when he paid a unique visit to the IAF Flight Academy. Col. McArthur is a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule. Read More »
Rabbi Boteach Israel news photo: Rabbi Boteach’s official website Self-proclaimed “America’s Rabbi” Shmuely Boteach has decided “to throw his yarmulke in the ring” and run for Congress – depending on backing. Read More »
IDF commando vessel Israel news photo: Flash 90 Soldiers from the IDF elite marine commando unit, Shayetet 13, rescued a group of five civilians whose fishing boat sank at sea early on Monday. The civilians were safely rescued and no injuries were reported, according to the IDF Website. Read More »
Canadian FM Baird at Herzliya Conference IDC Herzliya Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, said Sunday that Israel has every right to feel threatened by the Iranian nuclear program, The Canadian Press reported. Read More »
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