RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (AP) – — The Palestinian president says he has “slapped” the U.S. Administration in the face by rejecting President Donald Trump’s promised peace plan. In a speech Monday, Mahmoud Abbas derisively referred to the U.S. peace plan, known as the “Deal of the Century,” as the “Slap of the Century.” “They tried […]

UKRAINE (JTA) – A Ukrainian court convicted four people of the robbery of a rabbi in 2016 that resulted in his death. Two of the defendants in the trial around the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch in 2017 were minors when they committed their crimes,according to the prosecutor’s office of the Zhytomyr region. Of […]

There are still seats available at The Siyum, but there won’t be for long.
An Agudah representative shared with us that “in 2012, the 12th Siyum HaShas sold out weeks before the Siyum and thousands of people were disappointed that they were not able to get seats. We felt terrible turning them away, but there were just no seats.”
“This Siyum we priced more than half of the seats at $54 and lower. Many sections already sold out. We expect to sell out the remaining seats very soon. If you want to be at The Siyum, you should not wait any longer to reserve your seat.”
Hurry up, and reserve your seats now before it’s too late.

Red paint was found splashed across the doorway of the historic Middle Street Synagogue in the UK city of Brighton and Hove on Friday, on the eve of the 81st anniversary of the infamous antisemitic Kristallnacht pogrom.
The incident is being handled with “the utmost seriousness,” a spokesman for the Sussex Jewish Representative Council told local paper The Argus.
Stephen Silverman, Director of Investigations and Enforcement at the UK watchdog Campaign Against Antisemitism, said of the incident, “This cowardly act of vandalism against a historic synagogue comes just months after a prominent Labour activist called for a march on a synagogue nearby.”

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s commissioner to Expo 2020 in Dubai says next year’s world fair offers the country an opportunity to present a fresh face to the Arab world. Elazar Cohen says Monday he’s sure Israel will draw much interest from the Emirati hosts and various Arab visitors, particularly regarding the country’s technological prowess. He […]

Iran‘s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, found traces of uranium at an Iranian site that Israel called a “secret atomic warehouse.”
Two months after Reuters first reported that samples taken at the site had shown traces of uranium, the IAEA on Wednesday told member states at a closed-door briefing that it had found uranium traces at a site in Iran it did not name, but diplomats at the meeting said it was clearly the same place.
“The Zionist regime and Israel are attempting to reopen … this file,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in remarks carried on state television.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., a 14-term congressman and former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said he is retiring, becoming the 20th House Republican to announce that he will not seek reelection next year.
In a statement, King, 75, said he made the decision after “much discussion” with his wife and children.
“The prime reason for my decision was that after 28 years of spending 4 days a week in Washington, D.C., it is time to end the weekly commute and be home in Seaford,” King said in a statement. “This was not an easy decision.”
King represents a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County. He won reelection in 2018 with 53 percent of the vote over Democrat Liuba Grechen Shirley.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin struck a message of unity and warned against incitement during a state memorial service on Sunday for the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.
“Twenty-four years after the murder and it is as if the question of our joint fate still remains open,” Rivlin said. “The nightmare that none of us thought could happen turned into reality. The fear that we will, with our own hands, bring about our own downfall, remains etched in our consciousness.”

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz was booed Sunday as he entered the wedding of the son of charedi lawmaker Yaakov Asher, where protesters called him a “terrorist” and told him to “go to the Arabs.”
However, inside the function, Gantz was warmly welcomed, Hebrew media reported.
Gantz is currently trying to form a government, and one of the main stumbling blocks has been Blue and White’s insistence that a coalition unity government not include the ultra-Orthodox parties. Asher is a lawmaker from the United Torah Judaism Party.

Retail giant and online marketplace Amazon.com is offering free shipping to Israel on orders which exceed $49.
While Amazon has offered promotional deals before with free shipping, the previous offers required higher order amounts, typically $80 or more.
The new free shipping offer allows customers in the Jewish state to purchase under Israel’s $75 exemption limit – which allows shoppers to import goods without paying either import tax or the Value Added Tax (VAT).
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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