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January 2015

Aliyah reaches 10-year high in 2014

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Immigration to Israel reached a 10-year high in 2014.Approximately 26,500 new immigrants arrived in Israel last year, according to figures released Dec. 31 by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of...

Israel’s High Court suspends demolition of Glick attacker’s home

 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court suspended a demolition order for the home of the Palestinian who severely injured Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in an assassination attempt.The panel of three Supreme Court judges on Dec....

Fired Revlon executive alleges anti-Semitic discrimination

(JTA) — Revlon’s former chief scientific officer sued the company, claiming he was discriminated against for being Jewish.Alan Meyers in his lawsuit filed recently against the cosmetics firm said he was fired for raising safety concerns...

HarperCollins apologizes for leaving Israel off maps

(JTA) — The HarperCollins publishing house apologized for omitting Israel from maps in atlases it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East.“HarperCollins regrets the omission of the name Israel from their Collins Middle East Atlas,”...

OP-ED: Critics of Israel are losing

By MOSHE PHILLIPS

Critics of Israel periodically issue doomsday warnings about how the Jewish state will face international isolation if it does not quickly give in to Palestinian demands. Last week’s United Nations Security Council vote shows, once again, how...

Ruth Popkin, former national president of Hadassah, JNF dies

(JTA) — Ruth Popkin, who served as national president of Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund, has died. Popkin died Friday at the age of 101.

She served as the 18th national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization, and...

Mario Cuomo married strident liberalism and sensitivity to the Orthodox

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — Mario Cuomo, a three-term New York governor, was the rare politician who appealed to the Jewish tent’s opposite poles.

A strident liberal with a nuanced understanding of the sense...

Shin Bet and IDF announce arrests of ISIS cell

A joint announcement today from the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet acknowledged that a terror cell ideologically and religiously associated with the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) was arrested last November. According to the report, the first Palestinian...

Person in the Parsha: SHEMOT

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“SLEEPLESS NIGHTS”

Can you sleep at night? There is so much trouble in the world. Violence, wars large and small, natural disasters, disease. We all personally know many who are suffering...

Anshe Sfard looks to replace stove-oven

Congregation Anshe Sfard has launched a fundraising campaign, specifically targeting the replacement of its present stove-oven. The present stove-oven has been in the synagogue’s kitchen for at least 50 years.

A goal of $5,000 has been set to cover the...