http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en mforr@alteryourview.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T18:39:44+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_responds_to_bombing_with_airstrikes/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_responds_to_bombing_with_airstrikes/#When:18:39:44Z Israeli airstrikes hit targets in Gaza in response to a Kassam rocket fired into the Negev. Two smuggling tunnels and a weapons factory in southern Gaza were hit in the Air Force raid overnight Wednesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. About 15 rockets and mortar shells have been fired from Gaza at Israel in the past month,… News - Israel 2009-11-20T18:39:44+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/alleged_jewish_terrorist_charged_with_murder/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/alleged_jewish_terrorist_charged_with_murder/#When:16:51:05Z An alleged U.S.-born Jewish terrorist was indicted for two murders and three attempted murders. Yaakov (Jack) Teitel appeared in Jerusalem District court Thursday, where he was charged with the murders of two Palestinians and attempted murders of Jews. He was also indicted on several other charges, including smuggling firearms into Israel, and violence against Arabs, gays and lesbians,… News - Israel 2009-11-19T16:51:05+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/palestinian_union_not_backing_israel_boycott/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/palestinian_union_not_backing_israel_boycott/#When:18:13:13Z The top Palestinian trade union says it does not support a boycott of Israeli goods. Shaher Saeed, general secretary of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions, told British counterparts at a conference that his organization is not campaigning for a general ban on products made in Israel, Britain’s Jewish Chronicle reported last Friday. “The only area where… News - Israel 2009-11-18T18:13:13+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/hamas_declare_palestinian_state_from_sea_to_river/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/hamas_declare_palestinian_state_from_sea_to_river/#When:16:22:48Z Hamas rejected the Palestinian Authority’s decision to unilaterally declare a state in the West Bank and Gaza, saying it should take over all of Israel. “(W)hy not declare a Palestinian state from the sea [Mediterranean] to the river [Jordan]” rather than in the West Bank and Gaza only?” Hamas spokesman Salah Bardweel said Monday, Ha’aretz reported. His remarks… News - Israel 2009-11-17T16:22:48+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/plans_for_new_palestinian_city_in_west_bank_raise_hopes/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/plans_for_new_palestinian_city_in_west_bank_raise_hopes/#When:16:55:28Z Dusk has fallen on a terraced hillside and workers clearing the red earth hurry to finish planting trees in the twilight, their labor the initial step in the construction of the first-ever planned Palestinian city. The city, with a construction price tag of some $350 million, already has its city limits registered, a name—Rawabi, Arabic for hills—and funding… News - Israel 2009-11-16T16:55:28+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/it_takes_a_retirement_village_for_an_israel_bar_mitzvah/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/it_takes_a_retirement_village_for_an_israel_bar_mitzvah/#When:05:00:45Z It was a bar mitzvah for the ages—or, rather, the aged. A handful of residents from an Ohio retirement community visited Israel for a 12-day mission culminating in a group bar mitzvah in Jerusalem’s Old City. For some of the octogenarians at Cedar Village in Mason, near Cincinnati, it was their first bar/bat mitzvah. “I never dreamed this… News - Israel 2009-11-12T05:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/for_the_disabled_birthright_trips_are_extra_special/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/for_the_disabled_birthright_trips_are_extra_special/#When:15:54:01Z Pamela Saeks thought her daughter Karly, who has Asperger’s syndrome, would never be able to go on Birthright Israel, the program that offers Diaspora Jews free trips to Israel. “For years she has been so frustrated that she can’t be like other kids and go on an organized trip to Israel,” Saeks said. But in December, Karly will… News - Israel 2009-11-11T15:54:01+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/netanyahu_restart_peace_talks_now/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/netanyahu_restart_peace_talks_now/#When:15:56:33Z Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. “Let us seize the moment to reach an historic agreement; let us begin talks immediately,” Netanyahu said, appealing to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech Monday in Washington to the Jewish Federations of North America. Netanyahu repeatedly called on Abbas… News - Israel 2009-11-10T15:56:33+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jerusalemites_arrested_for_organ_trafficking/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jerusalemites_arrested_for_organ_trafficking/#When:21:20:58Z Two Jerusalem residents, one a former Hadassah hospital employee, were arrested for allegedly facilitating organ donation deals. Sammy Shem-Tov, 67, a former employee of Hadassah-Ein Kerem, and Dmitry Orenstein were arrested Sunday at the hospital, according to reports. A gag order on the case was lifted Thursday. The men allegedly mediated between buyers and sellers of kidneys, according… News - Israel 2009-11-09T21:20:58+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/swedish_journalist_protested_in_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/swedish_journalist_protested_in_israel/#When:05:00:39Z A Swedish journalist who accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting Palestinian organs arrived in Israel for a news conference. Activists on Sunday protested Donald Bostrom’s arrival at Ben Gurion Airport as a guest of the Dimona Media Conference. Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, who is also minister for the development of the Negev and Galilee, announced Saturday that he… News - Israel 2009-11-08T05:00:39+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/ethiopian_jews_mark_sigd_holiday_with_peres/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/ethiopian_jews_mark_sigd_holiday_with_peres/#When:05:00:32Z Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. It was the first time an Israeli president has marked the Jewish-Ethiopian holiday. More than 250 people—including ministers, Knesset members, religious leaders, community and youth leaders, soldiers and visitors from across Israel—participated in Monday’s celebration. A panel of young Ethiopian-Israelis shared their personal… News - Israel 2009-11-07T05:00:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jews_palestinians_scuffle_over_e._jerusalem_home/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jews_palestinians_scuffle_over_e._jerusalem_home/#When:05:00:31Z Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned. After a Jerusalem district court on Tuesday denied the Palestinian residents appeal to remain in the home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the Jews arrived at the home with security guards and attempted to vacate the family,… News - Israel 2009-11-06T05:00:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jnf_aims_to_turn_israel_diamonds_from_rough_to_ready/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/jnf_aims_to_turn_israel_diamonds_from_rough_to_ready/#When:05:00:18Z People historically have associated the Jewish National Fund with planting trees in Israel. Now the century-old charity is also working to make sure that Israelis will have decent places to put good wood on the ball. The organization’s latest venture, Project Baseball, aims to develop baseball facilities in Israel for the country’s nearly 2,300 amateur players. Baseball has… News - Israel 2009-11-05T05:00:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/arrest_of_jewish_terrorist_raises_questions/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/arrest_of_jewish_terrorist_raises_questions/#When:21:04:32Z After the news broke in Israel that a West Bank settler was charged with murdering two Palestinians in 1997 and bombing the home of a prominent Israeli professor last year, many Israelis were asking why it took police so long. On Sunday, Israeli authorities lifted a gag order on the arrest of Yaakov (Jack) Teitel, a 37-year-old American… News - Israel 2009-11-04T21:04:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_denies_blood_diamond_accusations/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel_denies_blood_diamond_accusations/#When:15:03:59Z Israel refuted accusations by a United Nations panel that it was involved in the blood diamond trade. The U.N. panel on Tuesday said Israel was involved in the illegal export and sale of diamonds from the Ivory Coast. It also said the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Guinea and Liberia were not enforcing a U.N. embargo on buying the… News - Israel 2009-11-03T15:03:59+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rabin_memorials_held_throughout_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rabin_memorials_held_throughout_israel/#When:17:48:49Z Israel is marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Even as memorial services were held Thursday, the Hebrew date of the murder, at schools and institutions throughout the country, some right-wing activists called on students and citizens to shun the commemorations. Memory tents were erected in sites across Israel and included an… News - Israel 2009-11-02T17:48:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/lawmakers_debate_nakba_bill/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/lawmakers_debate_nakba_bill/#When:18:00:46Z Arab and right-wing Israeli lawmakers debated a bill that would revoke government funding for institutions that mark the Nakba. The measure, sponsored by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, is a variation of the proposed Nakba law that would have made illegal the observance of Israel Independence Day as a day of mourning. The Knesset Constitution,… News - Israel 2009-11-01T18:00:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rockets_aimed_at_israel_found_in_s._lebanon/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/rockets_aimed_at_israel_found_in_s._lebanon/#When:18:04:19Z Lebanese soldiers dismantled four rockets in southern Lebanon aimed at Israel the day after a Katyusha fired from the same area struck northern Israel. The rockets were found Wednesday resting on wooden launchers with timing devices set to detonate, Reuters reported. Reportedly they were placed in a house under construction that is owned by the mayor of Hula,… News - Israel 2009-10-31T18:04:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/peace_now_head_barred_from_knesset/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/peace_now_head_barred_from_knesset/#When:18:05:53Z The director of Peace Now in Israel has been barred from entering the Knesset. Yariv Oppenheimer on Monday was barred until further notice by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin after sending three members of his left-wing organization to enter the parliament building posing as students working on a project in order to interview right-wing lawmakers, according to Ha’aretz. Oppenheimer… News - Israel 2009-10-30T18:05:53+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/descendants_of_chinese_jews_arrive_in_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/descendants_of_chinese_jews_arrive_in_israel/#When:05:00:55Z A group of descendants from an ancient Chinese Jewish community moved to Israel. The seven young adults, all descendants of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, arrived last week in Israel on one-year entry permits. They will study Hebrew at a kibbutz ulpan and then undergo conversion to Judaism, according to Michael Freund, founder of the Shavei Israel organization,… News - Israel 2009-10-29T05:00:55+00:00