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May 22, 2016 at 7:43 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - May 22, 2016 - The politics and culture of Iran over the last 40 years are reflected in a new temporary exhibit at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. Sign from Iran, is a collection by 27 of Iran's finest artists and graphic designers. The 60 posters are divided into seven categories including, Politics, History and Culture, Founding Fathers, Calligraphy and Women.
Many of the posters are on loan from the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic. Marta Sylvestrova, Moravian Gallery curator was in Jerusalem, Israel, for the opening of the exhibition, which coincided with Jerusalem Design Week. Sylvestrova says modern computer technology has inspired a new generation in a "rebirth of calligraphy" in poster and graphic art.
Years ago, while traveling, graph...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:55 am
B’chasdei Hashem no one was killed or injured when gunfire was directed at a bus transporting students in Gush Etzion, near the Arab village of Tuqwa, which is not far from the Jewish community of Tekoa in eastern Gush Etzion. There was damage to windows hit by gunfire which originated from a passing vehicle.
The IDF reports the terrorists passed the bus in a Fiat Pinto and opened fire 50 meters from Tuqwa, hitting the bus in the direction of the driver. The terrorists continued driving, fleeing the scene.
The bus continued on its route, heading to Kfar Etzion.
B’chasdei Hashem no one was killed or injured when gunfire was directed at a bus transporting students in Gush Etzion, near the Arab village of Tuqwa, which is not far from the Jewish community of Tekoa in ...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:51 am
New York - The Israeli government will pass legislation against social media and Internet giants like Facebook and Google if they do not take steps to curb anti-Israel “incitement,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York on Sunday.
Erdan made the remarks during a speech in which he outlined the challenges faced by Israel and its supporters in dealing with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
“Social media companies are happy to use the data they collect on all of us to make money, but unfortunately not to help stop terror,” the minister said.
Earlier this year, the Foreign Ministry called on governments around the world to regulate social media in order to combat anti-Semitism and violent i...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:48 am
Israel - Following months of severe tensions within United Torah Judaism, Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush will finally step down as an MK to allow Yaakov Asher, a former MK to once again take up his seat in the legislature.
The UTJ Knesset faction is comprised of Agudat Yisrael, representing the hassidic Ashkenazi haredi community, and Degel Hatorah representing the non-hassidic “Lithuanian” Ashkenazi community.
Agudah currently has four MKs while Degel has just two.
The so-called “Norwegian Law” passed in July last year was supposed to see Porush swiftly resign as an MK, while retaining his deputy-ministerial role, to allow Asher to regain his seat. For many months after the law was passed however, Agudah refused to sanction the process and, accor...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:47 am
London - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday he would be prepared to meet U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, but kept up his criticism of the Republican’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, calling it “very dangerous”.
In December Cameron called Trump, potentially the next leader of Britain’s closest ally, “divisive, stupid and wrong” for calling for the ban. Trump fired back, saying he would probably not have a good relationship with Cameron.
But, amid signs that both sides are backing away from the standoff, Cameron told ITV’s “Peston on Sunday” show he would meet the property mogul if he came over before the U.S. election.
“American presidential candidates have made a habit of ...
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May 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
Los Angeles - A massive space shuttle fuel tank squeezed through the streets of Los Angeles and loomed over vehicles on a busy freeway Saturday to join the retired orbiter Endeavour on display at the California Science Center.
The 33-ton, 154-foot-long external propellant tank began moving a few minutes after midnight from coastal Marina del Rey, where it arrived by barge Wednesday, to the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The orange-brown, sausage-shaped tank — the last of its kind — is traveling by truck at about 5 mph. By early morning, it had moved through suburban Inglewood. Crews trimmed a few trees and unbolted a stoplight pole and turned it so the arm wouldn’t hit the towering tank.
Freeway drivers got a shock as the tank rolled by on ...
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May 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
New York - Hillary Clinton has a message for Donald Trump: keep on talking.
She’s just weeks away from wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination, and friends, aides and supporters describe a candidate who isn’t particularly rattled by what she expects will be Trump’s increasingly direct attacks on her marriage and husband’s personal indiscretions.
In fact, Clinton believes that she can turn Trump’s deeply personal assaults to her benefit, they say, particularly among suburban women who could be crucial to her hopes in the fall. Her plan is never to engage in any back-and-forth over the scandals. Instead, she’ll merely cast him as a bully and talk about policy.
“I don’t care what he says about me, but I do resent what he sa...
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May 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
Jerusalem - Israel’s prime minister says his government will continue pushing for peace with the Palestinians, even after adding an ultranationalist party to its ranks.
Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be trying Sunday to soothe fears over the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as the new defense minister. Lieberman is one of Israel’s most polarizing politicians and is known for his fiery rhetoric toward the Palestinians, among others.
Opening his weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said he wished to clarify that his broader government will “continue to seek a peace process with the Palestinians.”
Lieberman’s posting caps a dramatic political week in Israel, in which Netanyahu appeared close to adding the moderate Labor party instead. Defense Minister Mo...
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May 22, 2016 at 10:13 am
Top Jerusalem hotel allegedly confronted band playing for Arab workers, said religious garb would be 'insulting.'
One of Jerusalem's top hotels barred a band from wearing yarmulkes and tzitzit, i.e. Jewish religious garb, out of fear of offending its Arab workers.
The King David hotel invited the Inbalim band to play for its workers, Army Radio reports - the vast majority of whom are Arab.
As such, the band adapted its repertoire to suit its audience, including many songs from Umm Kulthum and Farid al-Atrash. But half an hour before the show, the producers banned the band from wearing their yarmulkes, "because it will hurt the feelings of our Arab workers."
The band's director, secular Israeli Noam Cohen, refused to order...
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May 22, 2016 at 8:51 am
During an election debate on Thursday night, Austrian presidential hopeful Norbert Hofer was accused of inventing a story about a terror incident he allegedly witnessed in Israel, The Guardian reported.
The moderator of the televised debate between Hofer, of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), and rival Alexander Van der Bellen, an independent candidate, backed by the Greens, challenged the right-wing candidate’s claims about personally witnessing the shooting of an armed woman on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The presenter also showed a video in which an Israel Police spokesperson denied that the incident ever took place.
Throughout his election campaign, Hofer has repeatedly told the tale about the sho...
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May 22, 2016 at 8:41 am
Kabul, Afghanistan - The Afghan government and a senior Taliban commander confirmed Sunday that the extremist group’s leader, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Mullah Abdul Rauf, who recently reconciled with Mansour after initially rebelling against his ascension to the leadership, told The Associated Press that Mansour died in the strike late Friday “in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area.”
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency announced that Mansour had been killed in an air attack Saturday afternoon.
In a statement, the National Directorate of Security, as the secret service is known, said the attack took place in Baluchistan province, in southwestern Pakistan.
It is believed to have been the first drone strike on Bal...
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May 22, 2016 at 8:13 am
When it comes to the security situation at Israel’s borders in recent years, no border has been more perilous for the Jewish state as its southern boundary with the Gaza Strip. Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and the Palestinian terror group Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave in 2007. Since then, Gaza has given Israel three wars, thousands of rocket attacks, and a network of cross-border terror tunnels that Hamas is currently trying to rebuild.
Since the conclusion of the latest Israel-Hamas war in the summer of 2014, both Israel and the international community have taken steps to rebuild Gaza in order to ease the humanitarian situation there and prevent another conflict. But over the last several years, chaos in the rest of the Middle East has pu...
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May 22, 2016 at 8:08 am
Despite ongoing security threats and regional instability, Israelis can expect to live well into their 80s, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) newly released global report on life expectancy.
Japan has the world’s highest average life expectancy—nearly 84 years—followed by Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, and Spain. Israel came in sixth. The shortest life expectancy belongs to Sierra Leone, with women in that country only expected to live to about 51 years and men about 59 years.
Israelis can expect an average lifespan of 82.5 years—80.6 for men and 84.3 for women, according to WHO. This sharply contrasts with some of Israel’s neighbors, including Egypt (71 years) and Jordan (74 years). For those living in conflict-rid...
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May 22, 2016 at 8:07 am
The dollar has been boosted by US Fed minutes, which revealed that a June rate hike is an option.
The shekel is again weakening in early afternoon inter-bank trading against the dollar and is stable against the euro. The shekel has now lost more than 2% against the dollar this week in part following the publication of disappointing first quarter growth figures by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
The shekel-dollar exchange rate is up 0.47% at NIS 3.853/$ compared with yesterday's representative rate, and the shekel-euro rate is down 0.07% at NIS 4.32/€.
Yesterday, the Bank of Israel set the shekel-dollar representative rate up 0.445% from Tuesday's rate at NIS 3.835/$, and the representative shekel-euro rate up 0.035% at 4.323/€.
The dollar is stronger follo...
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May 22, 2016 at 8:07 am
Detroit - An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the U.S. national anthem at a Major League Baseball game.
Hermina Hirsch sang Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit before the Detroit Tigers played Tampa Bay.
The Czechoslovakia native lives in Southfield, Michigan. She was 17 when her family was split up and sent to concentration camps in 1944. According to her granddaughter, Andrea Hirsch, Hermina Hirsch and her older sister were shuffled between five concentration camps, including Auschwitz. She was liberated in January 1945.
WWJ-TV has reported that Hirsch has been a Tigers fan since she moved to the Detroit area more than 60 years ago. Hirsch has been singing the anthem for years during Holocaust survivor meetings in the Detroit area.
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May 22, 2016 at 8:04 am
Baltimore, MD - May 16, 2016 - Have you ever wondered how a Sefer Torah is made? What about Tefillin? Have you ever had the opportunity to write with ink and quill on real parchment? Well, Sunday, May 22nd marks a first for Baltimore. The Jewish community is invited to a one-of-a-kind, interactive experience for the entire family - - The Not Just A STa”M Event!
This original event will feature unique experiences for all ages. Aside from the food, carnival games, prizes, and petting zoo, there will also be lots of things to do and learn. Participants will be able to write with ink and quill on real parchment that they can take home with them, they can learn how Tefillin is made, and make a wooden Mezuzah. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to view leather in diffe...
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May 22, 2016 at 7:57 am
Washington - A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group’s annual report. It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets.
The Ploughshares Fund’s mission is to “build a safe, secure world by developing and investing in initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate the world’s nuclear stockpiles,” one that dovetails with President Barack Obama’s arms control efforts. But its behind-the-scenes role advocating for the Iran agreement got more attention this month after a candid profile of Ben Rhodes, one of the president’s top foreign policy aides....
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May 22, 2016 at 7:55 am
Washington - Donald Trump poured more than $7.5 million of his own money into his presidential campaign in April, bringing his total personal investment to more than $43 million since he declared his candidacy, new campaign finance reports filed late Friday show.
The billionaire businessman, who swatted away 16 Republican rivals and relied heavily on wall-to-wall media coverage of his outsized personality and often inflammatory remarks, reported spending about $56 million during the primary, which lasted until his final two rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, dropped out of the race at the beginning of May.
In April alone, Trump spent nearly $9.4 million, according to his monthly filing with the Federal Election Commission. Trump’s largest expense...
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May 22, 2016 at 7:54 am
Orlando, FL - George Zimmerman said he has sold the gun he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 for $250,000, television stations in Orlando and Las Vegas reported on Friday.
Zimmerman could not be reached to verify the reports by KTNV in Las Vegas and WOFL in Orlando.
His offer to sell the Kel-Tec PF9 9mm handgun on UnitedGunGroup.com drew praise from gun rights supporters and scorn from critics who accused him of seeking to profit from the 17-year-old’s death.
Online bidding for the gun ended on Wednesday.
Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the shooting, which sparked heated debates over race relations, gun control and justice in the United States.
In a statement on Twitter after the bidding close...
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May 22, 2016 at 7:53 am
Ambassador hails 'a clear victory for Israeli truth,' as UN folds on censoring Zionist exhibit on Jewish connection to Jerusalem.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon's campaign to lift the ban on an Israeli exhibit has paid off, as after initially blocking the exhibit and later partially allowing it in April, the UN has now folded, allowing it to be shown in its entirety at UN headquarters in New York.
The exhibit, a joint initiative by the Israeli Mission to the UN and pro-Israel non-profit StandWithUs, presents information about Zionism, Jerusalem and Arab Israelis. It notes that "Zionism is the liberation movement of the Jewish people, who sought to overcome 1,900 years of oppression and regain self-determination in thei...
