Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Yoni Ben David Tzomet Director Rabbi Menachem Perl with McDonald’s general manager, Shaul Segev, at Ben Gurion Airport. Late last month, McDonald’s at Ben Gurion Airport received a kosher certificate from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate even though it’s open for business on Shabbos. The Jewish Press recently spoke with Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of […]

Photo Credit: wiki {Originally posted to the JNS website} In 1851, Sojourner Truth—abolitionist, feminist and former slave—delivered her pivotal speech titled “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. She shared her strife, her struggle and her ever-growing frustration with society and government alike. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, […]

Photo Credit: Labour Against Anti-Semitism via Twitter. Thousands gather outside of Parliament in London to protest anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party, Sept. 3, 2018. {Originally posted to the JNS website} In France, which is experiencing another surge of anti-Jewish attacks, the lower house of parliament has approved a draft resolution that calls hatred of […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash 90 Workers prepare ballot boxes for the Israeli elections, March 25, 2019. The bill for dissolution of the 22nd Knesset was placed on the table of the Israeli parliament on Tuesday afternoon, barely a day before the legislative body is officially compelled by law to disband. Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Photo Credit: Francisco Anzola / Wikimedia Downtown Dubai Israel has signed an official agreement with Dubai to participate in next year’s exhibition, according to a report by Channel 13 television news. Foreign Ministry director-general Yuval Rotem traveled to the United Arab Emirates this week to ink the agreement, ministry officials said. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: WhiteHouse.gov US President Donald J. Trump President Donald Trump offered his support and prayers Tuesday afternoon to the victims and their families targeted by two shooters who wielded “long guns” earlier in the day to kill a police officer and three civilians in a three to four-hour siege that led law enforcement from […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Radin photography NYPD has responded and New Jersey SWAT teams are at the scene. One police officer and three civilians were killed, and two additional police officers and a civilian were wounded on Tuesday afternoon in a shooting that began in a cemetery and ended in a kosher supermarket. New Jersey undercover […]

Photo Credit: Andre Wadman / Wikimedia El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 737-858 Israel’s national carrier, El Al Airlines, has announced it will operate three round-trip test flights direct from Tel Aviv to Melbourne, Australia sometime in April and May 2020. Tickets are now on sale for the flight, which is scheduled to depart from Tel […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, MP Meyer Habib Israeli victim of brutal anti-Semitic beating on Paris subway, Dec. 10 2019 A 31-year-old Israeli man was beaten unconscious in the Paris subway system on Tuesday after two attackers heard him speaking in Hebrew on a cell phone. “They punched me several times. My glasses were broken and I […]

Photo Credit: Source: Wall, Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90 One day after MK Yair Lapid announced he was giving up the PM rotation with Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz, and one day before the deadline for a third election campaign, Blue&White is getting stronger and opens up a gap of two mandate over the Likud, according to […]