Haredi Orthodox youth mob protests women’s prayer service

Poll says nearly half of Israelis support ‘Women of the Wall’ (JNS) Nearly half of Israelis, 48 percent, support the right of the group known as Women of the Wall to hold traditional Jewish prayer services at the Western Wall, according to a recent poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, Israel [ Read More...]

By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency TEL AVIV – Twice in three days, Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace and fired on suspected weapons caches bound for Hezbollah – and nothing has happened in response. Some experts are predicting that will continue to be the case following airstrikes near Damascus on Friday and Sunday that are [ Read More...]

By Zeev Klein and Israel Hayom JointMedia News Service Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid has presented the Israeli government with his ministry’s final budget proposal for 2013-2014, outlining aggressive cuts and a series of new taxes meant to help cover some of the Israel’s 39 billion shekel ($11 billion) deficit. The Israeli government budget proposal [ Read More...]

By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency TEL AVIV – Pascale Bercovitch has a firm handshake and a ready smile. She’s hard to keep up with as she takes an elevator to a cafe on the ground floor of her gym in northern Tel Aviv and talks about her hopes to compete in 2016 in Rio [ Read More...]

By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) – A same-sex Israeli couple struggling against U.S. immigration laws are set to become the faces of the fight to extend one of the foundations of immigration policy to gays and lesbians. Adi Lavy and Tzila Levy have been caught in the bureaucratic red tape of the [ Read More...]

By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency TEL AVIV – Following a court ruling in their favor, leaders of an organization pushing for women’s prayer rights at the Western Wall have withdrawn their endorsement of Natan Sharansky’s compromise proposal to expand the egalitarian section there. A Jerusalem District Court ruled last week that Women of the [ Read More...]

IDF moves to close holes in security fence following Israel Hayom report (JNS) The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police increased their activity throughout the Lachish region on Thursday, following an Israel Hayom report on numerous breaches in Israel’s security fence in that area and a subsequent increase in Palestinian infiltrations and criminal activity there. [ Read More...]

By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency TEL AVIV – The museum dedicated to the memory of Yitzhak Rabin raises nearly half its money from labor leaders. It’s just not the labor you think. Members of U.S. labor unions raised $1.4 million for the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv last year, 45 percent of the [ Read More...]

By Alina Dain Sharon JointMedia News Service In honor of Israel’s 65th birthday, JNS takes a look at the major events that shaped each decade in Israel’s history since 1948. The emerging picture shows that despite continuous political turmoil and violence, Israelis always found a way to grow and innovate. 1948-1958 In November 1947, three [ Read More...]