Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Fibonacci Blue / Wikipedia IlhanOmar (JNS/Israel Hayom) Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday calling on the administration to dramatically reduce its sanctions against Iran, which Omar characterized as “economic warfare.” The […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Liran Carmel and his mysterious Denisovan. Last September, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers Prof. Liran Carmel and Dr. David Gokhman captivated the science world with their reconstruction of a Denisovan, the mysterious human species that lived 100,000 years ago but disappeared. Now, Science magazine, which has named […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Haredi students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva. A NY City Department of Education report of 28 Haredi yeshivas published Thursday found that only two of them provided secular education that meets NY State standards. The report says that city officials have visited those 28 yeshivas starting in 2015, and only two of them […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Gaon Rabi Yaakov, known throughout Europe as the Dubno Maggid, was a brilliant orator and scholar. He was never at a loss for words, and always had a parable or a story from the Torah to fit the occasion. In his younger years, he was a merchant and often traveled […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I stayed up very late recently listening to the results of the UK’s general election. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party had moved toward policies so far-left, the entire country might have had to be renamed Venezuela. They lost to Boris Johnson and his Conservatives, and lost hugely. The defeat of […]

Photo Credit: Gideon Markowicz/ Flash90 Benjamin Netanyahu and Gideon Sa’ar cold calling Likud voters, January 17, 2013. A Makor Rishon survey shows that had the election been held on Thursday this week, Blue&White would have climbed to 38 seats (from 33), while the Likud with Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm would rise to 34 (from […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Here’s a new statistic, one that will gladden some and alarm others: The number of Jerusalem Arab students in Hebrew University this year has practically doubled. True, we’re not talking about large numbers in terms of the total number of students in the university, but 420 Arabs are registered this year […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90 Haredi youth arrives at the IDF Tel HaShomer draft processing base near Tel Aviv. A committee appointed by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi to examine the scandal of forged Haredi recruitment data recently examined a recording of a junior officer who said he had been ordered to forge the number […]

Photo Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton King of Jordan Addresses General Assembly {Originally posted to the JNS website} The Kingdom of Jordan canceled a component of its 1994 peace treaty last month with Israel. It evicted Israeli farmers from two tracts of contested land in the Jordan River Valley. The minor stretches of land—Naharaim in the […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov / TPS Palestinian Authority village of Turmus Ayya Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Abbas Zaki recently stated that it is a Palestinian “value” to murder Israeli men, but lied when he claimed that the Palestinian leadership does not support the murder of Israeli women and children. Speaking at the opening of […]