Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Mati Amar/TPS Police officers on guard at Temple Mount during Jerusalem day. May 13, 2018. An Arab with Israeli citizenship who assisted a terror cell which carried out a deadly attack on the Temple Mount in the summer of 2017 was convicted and sent to 16 years in prison. On July 14, 2017, […]

Photo Credit: IDF Spokesperson 669 IDF Rescue Unit Israel’s elite Search and Rescue Unit, codenamed 669, is sharing its vast professional knowledge with partners around the world, and especially with Jewish communities, in an effort to improve emergency response and save lives. Unit 669 is the IDF’s heliborne combat search and rescue extraction unit, subordinate […]

Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks President and Mrs. Trump visit the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Oct. 30, 2018. Almost one in three American Jews prefer not to display articles of clothing that would give away their religion, such as a yarmulke or a Star of David necklace, according to […]

Photo Credit: wiki Elizabeth Warren Oct. 21, 2019 Elizabeth Warren Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Senior Senator from Massachusetts 309 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Warren, You had me convinced to support your presidential bid because you stand for fairness and […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot 39 bodies found inside truck container in Essex Police in the town of Grays, Essex, in the UK, on Wednesday morning discovered 39 bodies, including one teenager, in a truck container that was parked in an industrial park. The bodies were discovered at 1:40 AM. The driver, 25, from Northern Ireland, […]

Photo Credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority Site of the church exposed in Ramat Beit Shemesh. The Israel Antiquities authority on Wednesday unveiled the archaeological excavations of the remains of a majestic Byzantine church constructed some 1,500 years ago near today’s Ramat Beit Shemesh, some 24 miles west of Jerusalem. Staircase leading down to the […]

Photo Credit: wiki Bon Jovi, coming soon to Israel. Proponents of the cultural boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel claim that their cause is human rights and their methods are nonviolent. Yet most international entertainers who want to perform in Israel face threats to their careers, their reputations and even their lives. Contestants […]

[embedded content] As the 2019-20 academic year gets underway on Sunday, October 27, Bar-Ilan University will see a 12% increase in first-year students compared to the same period last year. Sixty percent of the new students are women; 40% men. Among the faculties recording the most significant increase in students this year: Exact Sciences (18%), […]

Photo Credit: screenshot Azerbaijani Hero, Albert Agarunov {Originally posted to the JNS website} More than 25 years after his death in battle, a state-recognized Jewish hero of a Muslim-majority nation illustrates a contemporary vision for warm relations between those two faiths. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Amazon Gianluigi Nuzzi’s ‘Universal Judgment’ A Vatican official, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, on Tuesday denied reports that the Catholic Church is at risk of a financial default as a result of plummeting contributions. In an interview with the Italian bishops’ conference’s newspaper Avvenire, Bishop Galantino, who is in charge of the Vatican’s investments, […]