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English Poll Reveals Half of Britons Hold Anti-Semitic Views

January 21, 2015 A poll of 2,230 British Jews by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) found that more than half believe that current anti-Semitism echoes that of the 1930s with 45% feeling personally threatened by extreme Islamism, and 58% seeing no future for Jews in Europe.

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Iranian-Backed Hezbollah Threatens to Invade Israel

January 20, 2015 Israel’s army went on high alert Monday and Iron Dome batteries have been deployed along the northern border in anticipation of retaliation from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah for an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed six Hezbollah operatives, including a senior commander. Outgoing IDF intelligence head Brig. Gen. Itai Brun considers the threat of Hezbollah real. “Unlike in the Second Lebanon War, I believe that next time we will see Hezbollah sources on Israel soil,” he said. (Israel HaYom)

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10,000 Pilgrims Celebrate the Epiphany at Jordan River

January 20, 2015 On Sunday, the Russian Orthodox Church and Orthodox believers from around the world celebrated Epiphany, the traditional day on which Yeshua’s mikvah (Jesus’ baptism) is believed to have occurred at the Jordan River.

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UN Human Rights Commission Probes Israeli War Crimes

January 20, 2015 The mother of Daniel Tregerman appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), which is investigating the possible war crimes committed during Operation Protective Edge in last summer's war with Gaza.

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Jewish Prosecutor Found Dead

January 20, 2015 The body of Alberto Nisman, Argentina’s special prosecutor in the July 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center building case was found in a pool of blood late Sunday. Last week, he had charged President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (serving her 2nd term in office) of obstructing the investigation and attempting to cover up Iranian involvement in the attack.

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The Wannsee Conference: When Mass Murder Turned to Systematic Genocide

January 19, 2015 Tuesday marks the 73rd anniversary of Germany’s infamous Wannsee Conference. January 20, 1942, signaled a turning point from the mass murder of Jews to a systematic genocide of European Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other death camps. On this day, a group of Germany's political elite met at the Villa Minous, the Nazi SS guest house on the Greater Wannsee lake located in a Berlin suburb, to decide on "the Final Solution to the Jewish question."

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Parasha Va’era (And I Appeared): Expressions of Redemption

January 16, 2015 God promises Moses that He will accomplish four redemptive acts: He would bring out the Israelites from their suffering in Egypt, rescue them from slavery, redeem them from their oppression with His outstretched arm, and take them as His own nation (am). These four promises are called the four expressions of redemption, and they are traditionally commemorated during the Passover Seder (ritual meal) with four cups of wine.

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Nations Rally Against Terror

January 14, 2015 The victims of the Paris attacks were buried at ceremonies in France and Israel yesterday. In Israel, thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the four Jewish victims of terrorism at a kosher supermarket in Paris, joining dignitaries and the families of the four slain. "On this day, when four new graves have been dug in the soil of Jerusalem, the entire State of Israel embraces you with love," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the families. "These graves are the final resting place of Philippe, Yoav, Yohan and François-Michel. Four dear, upstanding people who loved their fellows. Four people who, like the victims from Toulouse who are buried here, were murdered only because they were Jewish. Their lives were cut short in a frenzy of hatred by a despised murderer."

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International Criminal Court Approves Palestine to Join April 1

January 13, 2015 Hopes of a long-term solution for peace between Palestinians and Israelis seemed more distant last week after Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that the so-called “State of Palestine” would join the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 1. The application submitted by Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas accepted the jurisdiction of the ICC over actions within the disputed territories extending back to June 13, 2014—a day after the Hamas abduction and murder of three Israeli teens, thereby averting prosecution for this war crime under the Rome Statute.

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Israeli Company Close to Developing Cancer Vaccine

January 13, 2015 Victory over cancer is sweet. Yet, sobered by the knowledge that the disease can return, an Israeli company has invested the last five years working on a vaccine to keep cancer from coming back. Researchers at Vaxil BioTherapeutics worked together with University of Tel Aviv scientists to create a revolutionary therapeutic vaccine called ImMucin, which teaches the body to fight cancer.

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