Latest News Briefs

Illinois regulators plan to warn the owner of Ben & Jerry’s to reverse the company's decision to stop selling ice cream in Judea and Samaria or face divestment by the state, an official said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

The Israeli Boycott Restrictions Committee of the Illinois Investment Policy Board will meet to approve setting a 90-day deadline for Unilever to reverse the decision by Ben & Jerry´s, committee chairman Andy Lappin said.

With the new Iranian government about to take office, US officials are stressing that Iran will not win more concessions by attempting to renegotiate the understandings reached in Vienna, Barak Ravid of Axios reported on Wednesday.

While the US hoped an agreement on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal would be reached before hardliner Ebrahim Raisi takes office, the negotiations have been suspended by the Iranians until the new government can form its own negotiating team.

In Judaism we do not see God; we hear God. To listen to God is to be open to God.and that is what Moses is saying throughout Devarim.

The US position on disputed Western Sahara remains unchanged under President Joe Biden's administration, a senior State Department official said in Morocco on Wednesday, according to AFP.

Former US President Donald Trump agreed to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara as part of the deal in which Morocco became the fourth Arab country to normalize ties with Israel.

Walk with HaShem, hold His hand and never let go.

The United States on Wednesday condemned the Iranian regime’s crackdown on protesters demonstrating following the water shortage in the country.

Khuzestan, Iran's main oil-producing region and the wealthiest of the country's 31 provinces, has been gripped by drought since March, with protests erupting in several towns and cities since July 15.

The United States is ramping up pressure on Poland in hopes of stopping legislation that would prevent families from receiving restitution for property seized during the Holocaust and communist era, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

The US said Wednesday that Poland is the only country in Europe to have regressed over the past year in meeting commitments to return seized property or provide compensation for Holocaust victims and their families. The public admonishment is likely to anger Polish authorities, who have rejected previous criticism on the matter.

The "End of history" idea that all nations would adopt liberal democracy seems to have been largely overlooked by today Jew-haters. Op-ed.

Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who founded Ben & Jerry’s in 1978, on Wednesday published an op-ed in The New York Times in the wake of Unilever’s decision to suspend the sale of the ice cream in Judea and Samaria.

Cohen and Greenfield, who sold Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever in 2000, wrote in the op-ed that they are “proud Jews” and supporters of Israel but also added that “it’s possible to support Israel and oppose some of its policies, just as we’ve opposed policies of the U.S. government.”

What are the Commandments we trample underfoot?

The initiator of the cannabis bill, MK Sharren Haskel, hinted in an interview on Reshet Bet radio that she would seek sanctions against the Ra’am party, which voted against the law.

"This will have consequences. If there is a breach of coalition discipline and a commitment to coalition agreements - it has significance," she said.

PA cabinet leader asks EU to pressure on Israel to stop offsetting aid to the families of the terrorists.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is expected to decide on Thursday morning whether to accept the Ministry of Health's recommendation to vaccinate the elderly with a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz will meet with senior members of the health establishment to discuss the issue, at the end of which the Prime Minister is expected to announce his decision.

Pollard visits Rachel's Tomb with his wife Esther, who comes full circle after visiting the site several times over the years.

The number of Americans hospitalized with coronavirus stands at 41,000, the highest it has been since April.

The Vaccines Committee at the Ministry of Health has recommended a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to adults.

Read more

Military Police launches investigation into death of Palestinian Arab boy near Hebron.

Police on Wednesday evening arrested five suspects who disturbed the peace at the Bar Ilan junction in Jerusalem following a protest that was taking place there.

Businessman Nathan Milikowsky, cousin of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, has passed away.

Read more

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi writes to Religious Affairs Minister: 'Those behind reforms are the ones who try to destroy State's Jewish character.'

10-hour trip to France during which he met with Minister of the Armed Forces, Head of the DGSE, and leaders of the French Jewish community.

Kushner reportedly plans to launch investment firm including focus on connecting Israel's economy with those of India, North Africa, Gulf.

Swiss Jewish Federation outraged after country's press council rules against magazine that printed article linking BDS to anti-Semitism.

'The claims of UN bodies and companies like Ben and Jerry’s to be motivated by high ideals melt to nothing, like ice cream in the summer."

49-year old woman from New Drop area alleged to have posted swastika stickers, distributed anti-Semitic flyers from white supremacist group.

Specifically in the vicinity of the Temple Mount, the place that unites all of Israel, more care must be taken to keep the peace.

Charter flights will be significantly reduced. As long as Ukraine is 'green,' travel there will be allowed.

L.A. Parents Against Antisemitism group using letter campaign to get teachers on their side before a September union vote on a BDS motion.

Yaffa Ben David, head of the Teachers Union, blasts Education Min. Shasha-Biton: 'Clarify policies, we heard it only from the media.'

Residents alerted town of San Anselmo that someone placed the Hitler-referencing white supremacist code number "1488" on a park scoreboard.

Today, representatives of several bodies visited the office of NSO in order to assess the allegations raised in regards to the company.

Former Health Min. Director General supports plan for 48-hour quarantine for schoolchildren with infected classmate. 'It could work.'

MK Arbel meets Ukraine ambassador, expresses concern over 'current government's policies, behavior towards thousands of believing Jews.'

Three men charged with hate crime after man in Catskills village has shtreimel ripped from head and is pelted with anti-Semitic slurs.

"Get your first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a City run site and you’ll get $100. It’s that simple," mayor's office says.

New York City says, starting Friday, anyone who gets the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine will be paid $100.

Mainz, Worms and Speyer, historic centers of Jewish culture, are the first Jewish sites in Germany to be recognized by UNESCO.

DM Gantz: “an attack on any Jew in the world is an attack on us as a nation.”

Former Soviet Refusenik tests positive after returning from Washington, released from the hospital last night.

Rabbinical Alliance of America applauds 50 CUNY faculty members who resigned from their union over its anti-semitic statement on Israel.