Yavne, Israel News

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.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday promised Gaza evacuees that, within a year, they would have permanent housing solutions, as he visited two southern communities where some plan to resettle - Shomriya and Amatziya.

Recently, pressure has been applied by US President Barack Obama to prevent the construction of a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

Palpable perplexity at Jewish secular-religious division may better be understood when rabbinical adherence to Orthodox tradition is seen as divorced from lessons which history teaches.

History is good at telling us about the Before and After. As to how we get from one to the other, not so much.

History is good at telling us about the Before and After. How we get from one to the other, not so much.

Cleared for publication: Gregory Rabinowitz, 56, a taxi driver whose body was found in May near the community of Gan Yavne, east of Ashdod, was killed in a terror attack.

Jeannette Epstein, 93, of Burns St., New Bedford, died Saturday, July 4, 2009. She was the wife of the late Saul Epstein.

A Messianic Jew who owns two bakery shops recently petitioned the Supreme Court against the Chief Rabbinate and two local rabbinates, which she claimed revoked her businesses' kashrut certificates because of her religious beliefs.

Yavne, Israel-based companya s new 100-kW hybrid solar thermal gas turbine flower plant makes concentrating solar power possible for the first time at a local level, claims company.