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Netanyahu Ties in Chess Against Gelfand

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday took an hour from his busy schedule for a game of chess against world champion Boris Gelfand. Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky was at the prime minister’s side, assisting and lending support. Sharansky is known as a formidable chess player. The game ended in a tie, as did [...]

Limbaugh: I’ll Leave US If Health Care Reform Passes

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Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that he will eventually leave the country if the health care bill passes and its provisions are implemented. Liberal media watchdog Media Matters recorded Limbaugh’s comments, Limbaugh says the following: “I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all [...]

High Court Rejects Petition to Halt Ashdod Rabbinical Election

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Reports from the High Court of Justice indicate the court has rejected a petition seeking to stop Tuesday evening’s election for a chief rabbi of Ashdod. As such, the election will get underway in Ashdod City Hall at 5:00pm, remaining open to the 48 eligible voters until 8:00pm, at which time the votes will be tabulated [...]

Washington – Alan Gross Jewish Activist Silenced in Cuban Jail Cell, Community Urged To Speak Out

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Washington – Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the get-out-the-vote enthusiast for candidate Barack Obama, the technology contractor who helped the U.S. government bring the world’s remotest populations into the 21st century. Now, however, Gross, 60, of Potomac, Md., has been [...]

Washington – Alan Gross Jewish Activist Silenced in Cuban Jail Cell, Community Urged To Speak Out

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Washington – Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the get-out-the-vote enthusiast for candidate Barack Obama, the technology contractor who helped the U.S. government bring the world’s remotest populations into the 21st century. Now, however, Gross, 60, of Potomac, Md., has been [...]

Krakow, Poland – Sentence Without Trial for Auschwitz Sign Thieves

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Krakow, Poland – Three of the five suspects involved in the theft of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign have to reckon with prison sentences of up to 36 months. According to Boguslawa Marcinkowska, spokesperson of the Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow, the three thieves accused of stealing and damaging the sign confessed to the crime and are [...]

Krakow, Poland – Sentence Without Trial for Auschwitz Sign Thieves

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Krakow, Poland – Three of the five suspects involved in the theft of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign have to reckon with prison sentences of up to 36 months. According to Boguslawa Marcinkowska, spokesperson of the Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow, the three thieves accused of stealing and damaging the sign confessed to the crime and are [...]

Arms stolen from police facility

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Police deputy chief orders probe into Monday night break-in, robbery in North.

Florida – Rush Limbaugh: I’lll Leave U.S. To Costa Rica If Health Care Bill Passes

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Florida – Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that he will eventually leave the country if the health care bill passes and its provisions are implemented. Liberal media watchdog Media Matters recorded Limbaugh’s comments, which you can hear below. At the 1:20 mark, Limbaugh says the following: “I’ll just tell you [...]

Florida – Rush Limbaugh: I’lll Leave U.S. To Costa Rica If Health Care Bill Passes

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Florida – Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that he will eventually leave the country if the health care bill passes and its provisions are implemented. Liberal media watchdog Media Matters recorded Limbaugh’s comments, which you can hear below. At the 1:20 mark, Limbaugh says the following: “I’ll just tell you [...]

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