Israel - When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivers a major foreign policy address Sunday, the setting will be part of the message: He will speak at Bar-Ilan University, which was founded in 1955 to unite secular learning with religious Zionism. Advisers to Netanyahu and Israeli political analysts say the speech will be a response to President Obama's address to Muslims this month at...

Washington - The son of the elderly, Jew-hating madman who attacked the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, blasted his father as an evil "coward" who deserved to die. Erik von Brunn, 32, said "my father's actions are unforgivable" and openly wished that it had been his dad -- infamous bigot James von Brunn -- who died in the attack and not hero security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns. "I cannot...

New York City - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Charles Schumer, former mayor Ed Koch and a host of other leading politicians and top Jewish leaders have issued warm messages of welcome to The Jerusalem Post New York Edition, which hits the city's streets Sunday. Over 100,000 copies of the New York Edition are being distributed free inside the New York Post in selected neighborhoods...

Israel - Yisrael Beiteinu Mks Leah Shemtov and Moshe Matalon will present to the government's Ministerial Law Committee a proposed law that, if enacted, would require all schools in Israel to teach Zionism and Israeli history. The law would require that all schools teach the subjects for at least three hours a week. Arab schools would be required to teach the curriculum as well. "It's a good...

New York - In a new anti-Israel, anti-U.S. video, an American al Qaeda member makes reference to his Jewish ancestry for the first time in an official al Qaeda message. In the video, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, discusses his roots as he castigates U.S. policies and deplores Israel's offensive in Gaza that started in late December 2008 and continued into...

Rockland County, NY - A federal appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Rockland County and others who want to prevent the FAA from implementing a new airspace project. Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef said that he would appeal the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The county and 11 other governments and organizations from...

Washington - The man charged with killing a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is expected to survive his subsequent shooting by other security officers, the FBI said in a statement released Saturday. The statement was based on a Thursday court session in which a public defender was appointed for James von Brunn, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Stephen...

Jerusalem - Most kashrut-observant Jews are accustomed to walking into an eatery and asking the restaurateur or waiter whether the establishment is kosher. Often the customer is told, "Yes, we are kosher but we don't have a teudah (kosher certificate) because we are open on Shabbat." It therefore may come as a surprise to the customer when he/she is told, "Yes, we are kosher and we are closed on...

Williamsburg, NY - Israel Neuman is in many ways no different from other 9-year-olds. He enjoys drawing, performing magic tricks and playing the drums, trumpet and keyboard. He says "please" and answers the telephone properly at home, in the apartment he shares with his parents and three siblings at a public housing complex in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But he has not been the same since...

Washington - The U.S. on Saturday refused to accept hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim of a landslide re-election victory in Iran and said it was looking into allegations of election fraud. Any hopes by the Obama administration of gaining a result similar to Lebanon's recent election, won by a Western-backed moderate coalition, appeared to be in jeopardy. "We are monitoring the...

Tehran - The streets of Iran’s capital erupted in the most intense protests in a decade on Saturday, with riot police officers using batons and tear gas against opposition demonstrators who claimed that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had stolen the presidential election. Witnesses reported that at least one person had been shot dead in clashes with the police in Vanak Square in Tehran. Smoke...

Manhattan, NY - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the man who has everything and, as he heads to reelection this year, shows every sign of hanging on. Billionaire, helicopter pilot, Wall Street whiz and near invincible city politician, the diminutive but intense Bloomberg eats the Big Apple for breakfast. Election day is not until November, but Bloomberg, 67, faces no heavyweight opponent...

Jerusalem - Around 300 secular Jerusalemites rallied in Israel's capital Saturday to protest the recent decision by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to close a parking lot on Shabbat in the wake of violent protests recently by Haredi demonstrators in the city. Many of the demonstrators accused Barkat of folding in the face of rioters, with MK Nitzan Horovitz (Meretz), saying "Nir Barkat folded, but we...