Every Hannukah, Israelis stop counting calories long enough to buy about 24 million mouth-watering, sweet and gooey, deep-fried sufganiyot. An estimated 24 million filled donuts (sufganiyot in Hebrew) are sold in Israel each Hannukah season. That adds up to $13 million in sales and 10.8 billion calories, at an average 450 per fried treat –…
BY ANDREW TUCKER, JPOST— Christians worldwide are gearing up to celebrate Christmas. Christmas trees are being erected, presents purchased and the turkeys prepared for the oven. Millions of church services will be held on December 25 to mark the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The tragedy is, most of us have no idea why. We…
BY AMIR OREN, HAARETZ— 2011 has been a bad year for dictators, whether those, like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, whose stay in power was convenient for Israel or those, like Syria’s Bashar Assad, who are Israel’s enemies. Now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died, the transfer of power to the third generation –…
BY DEBKAFILE— US President Barack Obama’s half-hour tête-a- tête with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Washington Friday, Dec. 16, was vitally concerned with the coming steps in the Syrian showdown and the latest developments in the controversy over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, debkafile’s Washington and intelligence sources report. Their conference was urgent because key…
BY ELAD BENARI AND YONI KEMPINSKI, ARUTZ 7— While the death of North Korea’s leader in the past 17 years, Kim Jong Il, may seem like it is not connected to Israel, Attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner who heads the Shurat HaDin organization, reminded on Monday of the connection between North Korea and terrorism in the Middle…
BY DEBKAFILE— The sudden death of Kim Jong II, of a heart attack aged 69, Monday, Dec. 19 – even though his youngest son Kim Jong-un was hailed as successor – confronts the world for the first time since the Cold War with a leaderless nuclear power about which it knows almost nothing. Though anointed…
BY YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST The inmates, most of whom had already served most of their sentences, were transferred in convoys of Prisons Service buses, guarded by police escorts. The 544 men were gathered at Ayalon Prison in Ramle, and were joined by the six women from Sharon Prison. They were taken to four release points.…
BY ERIC BARGER, TAKE A STAND— Chrislam, which purports to join Islam and Christianity into one harmonious, synthesized religion, is fast becoming a rallying point in some American church circles. Under the leadership of something called “Faith Shared,” two organizations, Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First, spearheaded an event loosely called “Chrislam Sunday” on June…
BY NIV ELIS, JPOST— US President Barack Obama courted Jewish voters and defended his record on Israel in a fiery keynote address to the Union for Reform Judaism outside Washington, DC on Friday. “No US administration has done more in support of Israel’s security than ours. None. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. It is…
