Joe Biden has something very unusual in common with Donald Trump — virtually all their children have married Jews — a family trait that seems to be a tacit requirement these days for anyone running for the highest office in American politics: Hunter Biden and his wife shared their dramatic love story — and it includes matching Hebrew tattoos. Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden,... 

President Donald Trump is sending 1,000 additional US troops to the Middle East as several UN officials told the Hebrew-language only Israeli newspaper Maariv that the US “plans to carry out a tactical assault on Iran in response to the tanker attack in the Persian Gulf on Thursday.” From ABC News: The United States is sending 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East, amid rising tensions between... 

On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation’s Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift. Allan Brownfeld of the American Council for Judaism calls the law a “retreat from democracy” as it restricts the right of self-determination,... 

The Israeli parliament’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation this week approved the long-delayed “Nation State Bill” for its first reading, which, when passed, will further restrict immigration to Jews only, and enshrine Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people.” The bill will now go to the Knesset plenum for a preliminary vote, following which it will be combined with a Justice... 

Israeli Goel Ratzon sits in a courtroom at the district court in Tel Aviv, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. Ratzon, a 60-year-old Israeli man who kept a harem of at least 21 women who bore him 49 children, has been charged with multiple counts of enslavement, rape, incest and other sexual offenses. An Israeli man who kept a cult-like harem of women and fathered dozens of children with them was charged in a Tel... 

Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being... 

Shulamit Aloni: “Bringing the Holocaust and calling people anti-Semitic is a Trick, We Always Use.”  Read More »

Temur Iakobashvili For past seven years, Israeli companies have been helping Gerogian army to preparer for war against Russia through arms deals, training of infantry units and security advice. The fighting which broke out over the weekend between Russia and Georgia has brought Israel’s intensive involvement in the region into the limelight. This involvement includes the sale of advanced weapons... 

Mr. Rockefeller, you should be ashamed to lash out at a bastion of liberty and free speech, but your tirade is to be expected. After all, you’re nothing more than a bag man for Big Coal, which you slavishly serve and help rape your beautiful state for a handful of coins. You’re also part of the “Wars for Empire and Israel” crowd, voting for the illegal and immoral Iraq War... 

SOCIAL-NETWORKING site Facebook is facing mounting criticism in Australia and overseas after refusing to ban Holocaust-denial groups from its site. Despite international pressure calling for the popular website to block Holocaust-denial groups, Facebook said it does not take down groups that “speak out against countries, political entities, or ideas”. The popular site, however, has recently begun... 

When Joel Engelman was 8 years old, he says, he was called from his Hebrew class to the principal’s office at his Brooklyn yeshiva, a Jewish religious school. His parents had recently told Rabbi Avrohom Reichman that their son had been abused by an older boy at the school, he says. But he says the rabbi was not offering to help that day. When Engelman arrived at the principal’s office,... 

A Texas scientist advocates killing nine-tenths of the world’s population by an airborne Ebola virus, writes John Ballantyne. An award-winning Texas scientist was given a standing ovation after he advocated the extermination of 90 per cent of the Earth’s population by an airborne Ebola virus. The University of Texas evolutionary ecologist, Dr Eric R. Pianka, was addressing the 109th meeting... 

The Obama Administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to, said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his first comprehensive interview on foreign policy since taking office. “Believe me, America accepts all our decisions,” Lieberman told the Russian daily Moskovskiy Komosolets. In other words this is what he means: America is our puppet state, we control it. Lieberman... 

The European Commission has raised fresh concerns over Israel’s continuing closure of the Gaza Strip, which it says is preventing European humanitarian aid worth more than €34m from reaching the Palestinian territory. According to an internal Commission document sent to EU member states last week, the tight Israeli restrictions on imports of goods and cash into the strip are doing both humanitarian... 

Phil Spector is likely to die in prison after the legendary Jewish music producer was convicted of murder for shooting the actor Lana Clarkson in a drunken and “sadistic” bout of Russian roulette. The Los Angeles jury spent nearly nine days deliberating over the case in which the prosecution portrayed Spector, 68, as a misogynist with a history of pulling guns and “playing Russian...