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Father of Muhammad al-Dura blasts Israeli report

Witness: Couple enters McCann's room before abduction

Police: Dozens throw stones at haredi soldiers in Jerusalem

Motorcycle crash: 2 sustain light, serious injures

Morsi rules out talks with Sinai kidnappers

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VIDEO: PM Netanyahu Meets with German Foreign Minister Westerwelle

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday 8 Sivan 5773 in Jerusalem, met with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westrwelle. Mr. Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting: “It is always a pleasure to host you here in Jerusalem. You are a friend of Israel, Chancellor Merkel is a friend of Israel, Germany is a [...]

White House Insists Obama Was Not Involved In IRS

A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only “when it came out in the news” while Republicans continued to press the administration for more answers. Trying to move past a challenging week that put the White House on the defensive, senior [...]

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Labor MK Disapproves of Lapid’s Dealings with the Chareidi Sector

MK (Labor) Omer Bar-Lev expressed his disapproval over Finance Minister (Yesh Atid) Yair Lapid’s proposed state budget vis-à-vis the chareidi community. “Lapid has decided to use force, to go head-to-head with the chareidim and while he may be correct, it is unwise.” Bar-Lev feels “the chareidim have been shoved into a bunker” and as a [...]

NY ‘Frisk’ Judge Calls Criticism ‘Below-The-Belt’

The federal judge overseeing the stop-and-frisk trial that has put New York Police Department officers in the spotlight says she knows she’s not the government’s favorite judge. But U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin says she strives to treat the government exactly the way she treats defense lawyers. The trial in its third month is testing [...]

Jerusalem: Haredim destroy theater ads

Police arrest two young ultra-Orthodox men on suspicion of defacing picture of actress on Khan Theater poster. Theater estimates damage at thousands of shekels, demands that Municipality fight vandalism and print new ads

Report: Czech anti-Semitism fairly low

New study by Prague's Jewish community says there were no physical attacks, direct threats against Jews in republic registered last year, yet there was an increase in attacks on Internet

Venezuela president claims Jewish roots

Nicolas Maduro scoffs at anti-Semitism accusations, says his grandparents were Sephardic Jews

Introducing world's longest Shabbat table

Large families are common in Bnei Brak, but even largest family doesn't host 300 people on Friday evening. Ultra-Orthodox city attempts to set Guinness record with longest Shabbat table ever seen

Christian churches back Hungarian Jews

With anti-Semitism on the rise, churches are working with Jewish community to counter provocations against Jews, Roma minority that have won radical right-wing party support among voters fed up with country's economic crisis

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