(JNS.org) On Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, world leaders called for the combating of anti-Semitism. President Barack Obama said in a statement, “On this Yom HaShoah, let us recommit ourselves to the task of remembrance, and to always oppose anti-Semitism wherever it takes root. Together, we must give enduringContinue Reading
By Felice Friedson and Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that Israel should annex the 60 percent of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control, and that includes all of the Jewish communities built since acquiring the areas in the 1967Continue Reading
By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service J Street has the backing of the major Jewish domestic policy umbrella organization in its bid to join the major foreign policy umbrella organization. The ballot next week of the 50 or so constituent groups of the Conference of Presidents of Major AmericanContinue Reading
By Edwin Black, JNS.org If a small group of grassroots Jewish organizations have their way, more than one hundred protestors will assemble in New York City on April 29, each carrying a shofar. On cue, at 5:30 p.m., rain or shine, all will raise their curved rams’ horns, long and short,Continue Reading
By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line [RAMALLAH] — Dr. Hanan Ashrawi was the first woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Ashrawi served in Palestinian governments and is a former spokesperson for the Palestinian delegation to the Mideast peace talks, beginning with the MadridContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line When Cindy Flash wanted to make eggs benedict a few days ago, she turned to a new cooking app developed in Israel, called Look & Cook. “It’s a great idea — you set up your tablet in the kitchen and you can see allContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set off a storm in Israel when he reportedly told American negotiators that if the Kerry-brokered talks fail, he could dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA), and shift responsibility for governing 2.5 million Palestinians to Israel. That would ostensibly meanContinue Reading
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced today that he had reached a unity pact with Hamas earlier Wednesday, which he insists does not contradict the peace talks he is pursuing with Israel. Earlier this month, Israel had called off a session of talks in response to the PLO’s deal with Fatah-Hamas,Continue Reading
With Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas threatening to dissolve the Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations faltering, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be giving up hopes for an agreement by April 29. Read the story at the Jerusalem Post.Continue Reading
As Israel continues to lead the way in several biotech industries, a small, independent Herzliya-based video tech firm, Extreme Reality, has stumbled upon a possible solution to racial/ethnic profiling through a biometric profiling system that analyzes individuals’ movements. This automated movement analysis is based on what’s called a “skeletal map,” whichContinue Reading
Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — When a 2009 Holocaust-era assets conference concluded with a landmark statement of principles on Holocaust restitution, many restitution advocates had high hopes that a corner had been turned in the struggle for survivor justice. The Terezin Declaration, which had theContinue Reading
(JTA) — A meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ended without an agreement to resume peace talks, a Palestinian official said. The meeting held Thursday in Jerusalem sought a framework that would allow talks to continue for another nine months. It lasted five hours, and the atmosphere was chilly, theContinue Reading
(JTA) — Pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine denied any involvement in the circulation of fliers calling on Jews to register with separatists and pay special taxes. The fliers were distributed earlier this week in the city, where pro-Russian separatists led by Denis Pushilin this month took over severalContinue Reading
UPDATE: WASHINGTON (JTA) — The suspect in the deadly shooting attack on two Jewish targets in a Kansas City, Kan., suburb was identified as a prominent white supremacist. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate group monitor, identified the alleged gunman as Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Mo., andContinue Reading
Sure, we’re all familiar with the four cups of wine at Passover seder. But why be so restrictive when aside from wine, there are so many other creative concoctions to include at the seder table? Tablet Magazine cleverly put out a ten plagues cocktails recipes post today, incorporating kosher forContinue Reading
By: Felice Friedson/The Media Line Dr. Larry Norton is the Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and hailed by many as one of the foremost cancer researchers in the United States. Dr. Norton was in Israel for a conference hosted by Soroka Medical Center in Be’erContinue Reading
After lengthy discussion and debate, it’s official: the Orthodox Union—one of the world’s foremost kashrut authorities—has declared quinoa kosher for Passover. Though many Jews have considered quinoa a “safe” kosher for passover food (since at least 2008), now that the community has the blessing of the Orthodox Union, many skeptics canContinue Reading
(JTA) — An Australian-American team of researchers recommended circumcising infant males to avoid diseases in a new study that compared the practice to vaccination. The team, led by Brian Morris of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney, asserted in their newly published study that halfContinue Reading
Op-Ed: The West Bank is under military occupation, and that’s a fact By Jessica Montell, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — According to press reports, the crowd at a recent Republican Jewish Coalition conference “noticeably gasped” when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie referred to the West Bank as “occupiedContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, an Arab woman with a PhD in marine microbiology, has won Israel’s highest honor for an amateur chef – the title of Master Chef. She still finds it hard to believe it’s really true. “The moment they announced it, I just startedContinue Reading
