Kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin was sentenced to 27 years in a federal prison for his conviction on federal financial fraud charges.Read More
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Port of Oakland to prevent an Israeli cargo ship from unloading.Read More
The mysterious death of an Orthodox Jewish millionaire on June 9 in New York has sparked a whirlwind of rumors, even though the medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.Read More
The cabinet decision to scale back the civilian blockade on Gaza while tightening the security blockade enables Israel to focus on real security issues, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday in an address to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.Read More
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein advised the High Court of Justice on Wednesday to refrain from enforcing jail sentences for the 22 ultra-Orthodox women charged with violating an order to send their Ashkenazi daughters to school with their Sephardi peers.Read More
Elton John performed a concert in Israel, following the politically motivated cancellations of shows by other artists.Read More
Thirty five men, fathers to Ashkenazi girls attending an illegally segregated school in the West Bank settlement of Immanuel, arrived at the Ma’asiyahu prison Thursday evening to serve a two-week sentence.Read More
Israel’s security Cabinet agreed to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip.Read More
The relationship between the Obama administration, the Netanyahu government and the pro-Israel community is ensconced on all fronts in “agree, for now” mode.Read More
More than half of Israeli Jews believe that the term “pro-Israel” should apply only to Jewish groups that back the policies of the current Israeli government, a poll showed.Read More
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