Yavne, Israel News

Jerusalem-based organizations battling the so-called "kosher" bus lines a ' lines which require the separation of men and women a ' have established a hotline catering to women forced to sit at the back of the bus.

Judy Kamm grew up in greater Kansas City, but today she lives near the ancient city of Hebron in the disputed territory known to most as the West Bank, but to many Jews as Judaea and Samaria.

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Sunday evening on suspicion of stabbing a friend to death because he was asked to leave for refusing to keep the noise down, and then subjecting the murder victim's mother to more than 24 hours of sexual assault, police said.

Kadima runs the risk of turning into a secularist party that only represents the well-heeled Tel Aviv suburbs, a veteran Kadima official associated with MK Eli Aflalo complained Thursday to The Jerusalem Post .

The Tel Aviv metropolitan area, which stretches from Ashdod in the South to Netanya in the North, is home to roughly three million people and produces 30% of the country's corpses.

The High Court of Justice on Monday ordered the Jew for Jesus owner of a bakery in Ashdod to apply for a new kashrut certificate instead of expecting the justices to immediately find the rabbinate in contempt of court for failing to implement a ruling issued in June.

After a few months of relative calm Sderot residents are faced with growing welfare issues.

Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar addressed Knesset members Wednesday asking them to draft a bill which would prevent the High Court of Justice's interference in matters pertaining to kashrut, which are under the Chief Rabbinate's authority.

From the TR Physics Arxiv blog : The quantum vacuum has fascinated physicists ever since Hendrik Casimir and Dirk Polder suggested in 1948 that it would exert a force on a pair of narrowly separated conducting plates.

World peace is no closer now than it was when the first Ben & Jerry's store in Israel opened with great fanfare on Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street in 1988, but the flavor Imagine Whirled Peace is coming back to an ice-cream store near you.

At 10.20pm on Saturday 1 August 2009, a man walked along Nachmani Street, a residential road in central Tel Aviv.

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, inciting goyicide Readers of this blog will recall the post I wrote about the good Rabbi Yitzchak Shapira, who wrote a 200-page book arguing, among other things, that it was permissible to kill goyim, including children and even babies, who endangered Jews.A Rav Shapira doesn't explain how a goy baby could endanger a Jew, but ...

Right-wing spokesmen, including some elected officials, rushed to place Yaakov "Jack" Teitel in the fringe group alongside Yigal Amir, Eden Natan Zada, Eliran Golan, Asher Weisgan, Danny Tikman and a few other "political/ideological" murderers.

Even though Israel is situated on the edge of a sea and not an ocean, it too could be hit by tsunamis - massive waves and flooding caused by underwater earthquakes - that have devastated parts of Asia in recent years.

If the grass is truly greener on your neighbors' side of the fence, it may be because it's not grass at all, but a nylon substitute.

As we debate the many scary enemies and exciting possibilities for new wars -- escalation in Afghanistan, our very own "Cuban Missile Crisis" against the Persian Hitlers, the Socialist Menace in Venezuela -- events can become very confusing.

Last week the religious Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva celebrated its 80th anniversary.

This Friday, the 8th of Elul - if you are not struck by that date, please refer to Josephus' War of the Jews - or listen to this weeks broadcast! On this day the Romans vanquished the last Jewish resistance - which lasted for a month after the Second Temple's destruction.

German firm pays $15 million for a 40-percent stake of the only company in Israel to have a permit to develop photovoltaic plants.

An indictment was filed with the Petah Tikva District Court on Thursday against Ahmed Totaki Abu Hanini for the murder of 56-year-old Gregory Rabinowitz, a taxi driver from Ashdod found dead near Gan Yavne last May.