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Friday, 03 February 2012 06:15 |
Iran's Supreme Leader says his country will assist any nation or group that "confronts" Israel, describing it as a "cancer."
The remarks by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came during a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran...
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 14:00 |
 During a campaign stop this past Thursday in New York, President Barack Obama met with prominent Jewish leaders in an effort to build stronger relationships with the Jewish community. Among them was noted community leader...
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 13:57 |
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The Max and Ruth Schwartz Yeshivat Hesder of S’derot is calling on friends and supporters worldwide to host Super Bowl parties while reserving “halftime” of the big game to remember their brothers and...
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 02:59 |
 1950: Leadership
On Shabbat morning, January 28, 1950, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, passed on to his eternal rest.
The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of...
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 04:21 |
 SDA-McAfee report says Israel subjected to 1,000 cyber attacks per minute, which it successfully tackles; awards it 4.5 stars – higher score than US A recent report by the Security and Defense Agenda (SDA) and...
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Written by CBS News
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:17 |
 Officials are quietly conceding that new international sanctions targeting Iran's suspect nuclear program, while welcome, are further constraining Israel's ability to take military action — just as a window of...
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Written by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
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Monday, 30 January 2012 09:13 |
 One of the most popular family activities during “winter break” is
that trip to the mountain resort which offers skiing and snow-tubing.
It is one of those rare activities that parents, younger children, and...
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:54 |
Israel’s defense ministry says it will soon begin clearing thousands of mines in southern Israel.
In a statement Sunday, defense official Ervin Lavi says the ministry will clear 60 acres of land near the Dead Sea in...
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Monday, 30 January 2012 01:50 |
Israel said on Sunday it plans to build a railway line linking its Red Sea and Mediterranean ports that could handle potential overflow from the Suez Canal on the freight route between Asia and Europe.
Prime Minister...
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Written by NY1
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Friday, 27 January 2012 06:32 |
 Protesters who gathered on City Hall's steps Thursday say Police Commissioner Ray Kelly lied to Muslims, the media and the city as a whole about his role in the controversial film "The Third Jihad."
Its producers call it...
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Written by Guy Bechor for YNET
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Friday, 27 January 2012 06:08 |
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Nothing stopped Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, from making Ahmadinejad-style declarations that Israel’s days are numbered and calling for the establishment of an Arab Jihad army for...
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Written by YNet News
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:01 |
English literacy Institute A.H.A.V.A has launched its seventh annual read-a-thon by inviting local school children to help create what is expected to be the biggest book ever made in Israel.
The book, titled “The...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:28 |
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World Cheese Company, producer of Haolam cholov Yisrael cheese products and Miller’s Cheese Corp. have moved quickly to offer its loyal customers newly produced, quality shredded cheese after issuing a voluntary...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:25 |
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Defenders of President Franklin Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust have been dealt a major blow, as a study by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has rejected a claim they frequently have made regarding...
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Written by Chana Yaar for Arutz Sheva
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:46 |
Three district court judges and the dean of Tel Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law have been appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court bench.
Jerusalem District Court Deputy President Tzvi Zylbertal, Jerusalem...
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Written by YNet News
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 06:01 |
 On the backdrop of recent acts of racism against Israel's Ethiopian community, President Shimon Peres recently visited the Amit Reshit School in Jerusalem, where children of Ethiopian descent have been successfully...
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Written by Washington Post
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:24 |
 TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s central bank deputy governor said Monday that trading foreign currency outside of banks and licensed currency exchange operations was now banned, marking the government’s latest...
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Written by YNet News
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Friday, 03 February 2012 06:04 |
 About 900 ancient Judean coins spanning 11 centuries will go on the auction block in New York in March.
They include two rare coins struck by Jewish forces revolting against Roman rule in the first century CE
Heritage...
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 13:59 |
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Those who never visited the flourishing Jewish towns and settlements of Gush Katif and northern Samaria can scarcely imagine the scale of the human tragedy and crying injustice of the expulsion of the almost 10,000...
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Written by Arutz Sheva
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 06:41 |
 IDF Intelligence head Aviv Kochavi gave a chilling presentation Thursday morning at the Herzliya Conference on Israeli policy, telling listeners that Israel's enemies had 200,000 rockets and missiles pointed at the...
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Written by HaAretz
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 02:55 |
 Noted American Paul Auster author defended his decision to refuse a Turkey visit over the limits the country places on free speech on Wednesday, after Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused him of having double...
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Written by Arutz Sheva
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 04:15 |
 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to Sweden have been threatened by the city of Gothenburg with thousands of dollars in fines for home schooling their children, as the Swedish government attempts to force this Jewish family to...
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Written by Arutz Sheva
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 04:03 |
 El Al Airlines was grounded at Ben Gurion International Airport Monday night, as officials tried to get its computers back on line. The grounding, though temporary, was due to a failure in the computer system of Israel's...
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Written by AP
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:58 |
 The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight.
The military says there were no injuries in Sunday’s crash, and it was investigating the...
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Written by YNet News
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:51 |
 Senior Sephardic religious leaders, including Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef, have published a harsh letter against the Internet, stating that every person must save his relatives and others...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012 13:27 |
 During a program aired on Palestinian television last week, the aunt of one of the Palestinians who took part in the brutal murder of five members of the Fogel family in the West Bank last march referred to him as a "hero"...
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Written by NY1
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Friday, 27 January 2012 06:31 |
Protesters who gathered on City Hall's steps Thursday say Police Commissioner Ray Kelly lied to Muslims, the media and the city as a whole about his role in the controversial film "The Third Jihad."
Its producers call it...
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International News
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Written by Arutz Sheva
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Friday, 27 January 2012 01:25 |
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Israel presented this week, for the first time, its principles regarding the borders of a future Palestinian state. The borders were presented during Wednesday’s meeting in Jordan between attorney Yitzchak Molcho...
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Written by Arutz Sheva
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:47 |
An American Jewish woman says her flight's cancellation due to a hacker attack Wednesday night was clearly the result of Divine Providence.
At least outbound one flight – Delta #269 from Ben Gurion International...
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Written by 5TJTSraff
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:28 |
 English literacy Institute AHAVA has launched its seventh annual read-a-thon by inviting local schoolchildren to help create what is expected to be the biggest book ever made in Israel.
The book, titled “The...
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Written by 5TJTSraff
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:23 |
 Professor Dr. Natalia Aleksiun has achieved a trifecta in academia. An associate professor of Jewish studies at the Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Dr. Aleksiun has been awarded three research fellowships for the...
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Written by Chana Yaar for Arutz Sheva
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:46 |
Three district court judges and the dean of Tel Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law have been appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court bench.
Jerusalem District Court Deputy President Tzvi Zylbertal, Jerusalem...
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Written by Yoav Zitun for YNET
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:42 |
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Air Force jets attacked a weapons factory in the central Gaza Strip, two tunnels in the northern Strip and one tunnel in southern Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said Monday. The IAF carried out direct hits. Meanwhile...
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Written by David Goldman
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Monday, 23 January 2012 06:59 |
 Investors bought less an a third of the 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds (US$580 million) worth of Treasury bills offered to the market on January 22, a red flag warning that Egypt's foreign exchange position is close to the...
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Written by Daily Mail
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Friday, 03 February 2012 05:56 |
 It's a beautifully cut and timeless piece - camel wool, dark chocolate brown detailing and a line that elongates and flatters: The London Contrast coat is one of the Duchess of Cambridge's most elegant wardrobe...
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 13:58 |
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Kehilas Zichron Yosef, under the guidance of Rav Label Katz, shlita, is fortunate in having two extraordinary representatives of “oskim b’tzorchei tzibbur,” Mr. Shmuel Gross, gabbai rishon, and Mr...
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Written by YNet News
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 03:31 |
 Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, a health ministry official said, in an incident that one player described as "a war...
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Written by Jerusalem Kosher News
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 04:25 |
 The Chardal or dati leumi community has decided to launch its own hashgacha, a hechsher that intends to compete with the top-of-the-line chareidi hechsher, Badatz Eida Chareidit. Orot HaKashrut will be under the guidance...
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 04:07 |
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the leadership race of his Likud Party over his ultranationalist rival early Wednesday, hours after his government approved new incentives to entice people to move to West Bank...
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Written by YNet News
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:51 |
 Ankara will not allow Khaled Mashaal to relocate Hamas' Politburo to Turkey, the Turkish website Today's Zaman reported on Monday. According to the report, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc said that...
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Written by AP
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:54 |
 Israel’s defense ministry says it will soon begin clearing thousands of mines in southern Israel.
In a statement Sunday, defense official Ervin Lavi says the ministry will clear 60 acres of land near the Dead Sea in...
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Written by AP
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:36 |
A hard-line Jewish settler who wants to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza is running against Israel's prime minister in Tuesday's party primary election.
Moshe Feiglin has little chance of defeating Prime...
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Written by NY Times
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Friday, 27 January 2012 06:47 |
 Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional...
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Written by Nir Hasson for HaAretz
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Friday, 27 January 2012 06:16 |
 Fully 80 percent of Israeli Jews believe that God exists - the highest figure found by the Guttman-Avi Chai survey since this review of Israeli-Jewish beliefs began two decades ago.
The latest survey of the "Beliefs...
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Written by Richard Sukverstein for Asian Times
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:11 |
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Relations between Iran and the West, fraught with tension and conflict for decades, have in the past few months reached a fever pitch. There is talk of war on a daily basis from both sides. Hundreds of millions, if not...
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International News
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Written by Natasha
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:47 |
An American Jewish woman says her flight's cancellation due to a hacker attack Wednesday night was clearly the result of Divine Providence.
At least outbound one flight – Delta #269 from Ben Gurion International...
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International News
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Written by 5TJTSraff
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:26 |
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Drawing on the strength of the Jewish community, more than 800 volunteers will gather for UJA-Federation of New York’s annual Super Sunday phone-a-thon on Sunday, January 29, to raise money that helps care for people...
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International News
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Written by HaAretz
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:44 |
 A bitter confrontation broke out between the head of the Israeli negotiating team Yitzhak Molcho and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat during their meeting In Jordan on Saturday.
An Israeli official familiar with...
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Written by YNet News
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:43 |
Three Azerbaijani citizens who were arrested by security forces last week planned to attack Jewish targets, including Israeli ambassador to Baku Michael Lotem, a local media outlet reported Tuesday.
Israeli sources also...
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Written by Gavriel Queenann for Arutz Sheva
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:39 |
 Russia and Syria have signed a $550-million contract on the delivery of 36 Yakovlev Yak-130 Mitten combat trainer, the Kommersant daily reported Monday.
The report quoted a source close to Russia’s state arms...
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