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Jewish-American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson may shift his support from Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney in the race for the White House, according to a report published over the weekend in the New York Times. Adelson, the world's 16th wealthiest person, and his wife Miriam donated $10 million last month to Winning our Future, the pro-Gingrich super PAC. Much of this was apparently used to fund an aggressive anti-Romney…

Writer Joe Eszterhas, who claims to be just a couple of weeks away from completing his script on the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee, says that he's sure Mel Gibson is the right director for the project. Well, pretty sure.

"At one of the early meetings," Eszterhas recalled, "Adam Fogelson, Universal Pictures’ chairman, said to him, 'Why do you want…

US President Barack Obama said Sunday that he doesn't think Israel has made a decision on whether to attack Iran, indicating that he preferred to hold Israel back from military action. Obama contradicted Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's statement last week that he expected Israel to strike Iran in the spring.

Around 70 settlements in Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank") are on a list of communities eligible for housing and development grants that the Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday. 57 of them are located outside the boundary of the security barrier’s planned route.

Israel has assured the international community that it would not provide…

Authorities arrested a New Jersey teen Tuesday following their investigation into the firebombing of a Rutherford synagogue earlier this month,…

Witness after witness presented testimony in a Georgia administrative court, collectively making the case that current White House resident Barack Hussein Obama should be disqualified from the 2012 ballot because he did not qualify for the Constitutional requirement that the President be a "natural born citizen."  …

In Israeli civilian life these days, battles are being fought over the right of women to sit where they wish in ultra-orthodox buses. But in Israel's citizen army, the role of women is being heralded as an essential element in the nation's defense.

Dover Tzahal, the public diplomacy unit of the Israel Defense Forces -- the "spokespeople" of the…

The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times has resigned and is seeking a buyer in the aftermath of a column he wrote speculating that Israel would consider assassinating President…

Israel's military says it believes Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah now possesses long-range surface-to-air missiles supplied by Syria, significantly boosting its defenses against the Jewish state's formidable…

The Times of London reports that Israel has told the US's top general that it will give Washington just 12 hours' notice if it decides to launch a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The short notice, which would prevent the US from blocking the raid but presumably prevent confusion, "is the latest sign of a breakdown of trust between the two allies" in terms of responses to Iranian ambitions to develop nuclear…

Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta's Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel's diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran,…

This evening, in an Amsterdam synagogue, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Iran had decided to become a nuclear state, and urged action before it was too late to stop Iran completing the construction of a nuclear weapon. "Iran must never be allowed to build a nuclear weapon. Period," he said.  His statement at the conclusion of a brief state visit to Holland gave Gen. Martin Dempsey, on his first visit to Israel as Chairman…

The Thai police's capture of a Lebanese-Swedish Hizballah suspect, Atris Hussein, who was charged Monday, Jan. 16, thwarted a terrorist attack on Bet Chabad in Bangkok, which was to involve the taking of hostages and blowing up the building. It was to have followed the same lines as al Qaeda's 2008 assault on the Mumbai Habad center which killed 8 Israelis and Jews - only more ambitious. The Chabad Bangkok is much…

Hours after anti-Israel hackers said they would strike the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, both sites were taken offline…

White House resident Barack Hussein Obama II went ballistic after his aides reported that a senior Israeli minister, Moshe Ya'alon, expressed disappointment with US efforts to prevent Iranian nuclearization.  Obama abruptly called off Austere Challenge 12, the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever planned in a fit of pique over a comment by Ya'alon that the United States was hesitant over sanctions against…

Mossad officers have been posing as CIA officials to recruit operatives against Iran's nuclear program, according to a Foreign Policy report published Friday.  The magazine is…

A senior Israeli government official has called "absolute nonsense" a Friday report in Foreign Policy that Mossad agents posed as CIA officers to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations…

A firebomb smashed through the window of Rabbi Nosson Schuman of Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, New Jersey early Wednesday. The Molotov cocktail exploded in his bedroom, with the bomb's accelerant "sprayed all over our blankets, all over the carpet,” Schuman said.…

A 17 year old Israeli hacker known as '0xOmer' has published hundreds of Saudi credit card numbers in retaliation against Arab hackers, claiming to be Saudis, who published tens of thousands of Israeli credit card details on the internet last week.  This is just the beginning," 0xOmer told The Jerusalem Post on…

A university professor and department head of a uranium enrichment facility was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, in an incident that resembled similar  attacks on nuclear scientists in the city more than one year ago.



The semi-official Iranian FARS news agency cited…