Israel has augmented its defenses with new surveillance and radar systems.

According to a Haaretz report, Syria is willing to announce a cessation of hostility with Israel in return for a progressive withdrawal from the Golan Heights, in stages. The report quotes Gabrielle Rifkind director of the Middle East Program at Oxford Research Group, who met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in December. She communicated [...]

Adar-centric events brought more than the usual dose of simcha to Chai Lifeline’s children and their families. Eight of the biggest entertainers gave their all to make seven hundred seriously ill children and their families laugh, sing, and dance at Chai Lifeline’s annual Purim concert. The Gershey Moskowitz production featured singing sensations Lipa Schmeltzer, Dovid Gabay, [...]

Parents these days withhold their approval in order to motivate their children to do better.

One of the newest code words for condemning Israel is describing the state as an “ethnocracy.”

Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever memorialized, AACI moves to Talpiot and IBA in the spotlight.

THE REUT report has already generated a significant buzz and a wide range of incredible responses.

New York – Who is a Jew? As the recent passport row shows, that question can be murky, with elements of belief, values, descent and nationality mixed in. It also has dark reminders of a terrible time in history when Jewish blood meant death; and science, or pseudo-science, claimed to be able to sniff it out. Things [...]

The courts didn’t even have to decide. After a thorough review of his signatures and after challenges that were filed by both the Lazar and Greenfield campaigns (despite the Daily News article today referencing Greenfield, our sources confirm that Greenfield AND Lazar both challenged the petitions of Tischler), the Board of Elections made a determination [...]

New York City – With Israel blocking the export of a large shipment of carp, the primary ingredient in gefilte fish, through the implementation of a new 120% tariff on the product, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D—Queens and Brooklyn) Rep. Don Manzullo are calling on the country to exempt carp from any excise taxes or levies. [...]