Technology used by the CIA and FBI to prevent terrorist attacks is being employed by Israeli farmers to detect pesticides. The sensitive chemical detection technology has the ability to identify minute levels hundreds of different pesticides in a single test. Farmers of the Yofi Shel Yerakot farmer’s collective in Ein Yahav are using the state-of-the-art chemical testing technology to ensure that the crops grown and stamped with the Yofi Shel Yerakot, which means “Beauty of Vegetables,” label …More

Like their peers on other campuses, pro-Israel students at the University of Minnesota are always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to expose their campuses to Israel. Sometimes, a party that highlights Israeli culture or a speaker who stresses Israel’s right to exist can prove effective, but the leaders of Students Supporting Israel at the University of Minnesota (SSI), CAMERA and Minnesotans Against Terrorism are hoping to strike a nerve when they bring an expert on suicide bombing to campus. Dr. …More

The extraordinary life and times of the last of New York’s great Jewish gangsters is finally public, thanks to the Freedom of Information Law. The New York Daily news obtained once-confidential FBI documents detailing the connections between the Genovese crime family and Julius Bernstein, known in his heyday as Spike. Born in 1922, Bernstein lived long enough to see the rise and slow fall of New York’s five Mafia families. He shook down the Sbarro restaurant chain, controlled a bus driver’s …More

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and top U.S. security officials told Jewish community leaders there is no imminent threat of an attack on Jewish targets in the United States. "Officials on the call said government and security agencies are closely monitoring intelligence information amid rising Mideast tensions, but confirmed that there are no immediate threats directed at a specific target in the U.S. at this time," said a statement by the Jewish Federations of North America, which co-hosted the …More

A fire at a New Jersey synagogue is being treated as attempted murder, with those whose responsible facing a minimum of 40 years in prison. The fire was started at Congregation Beth El early Wednesday morning by a Molotov cocktail-like device, which was thrown through one of windows in the rabbi’s residence. This attack comes in Bergen County, an area of New Jersey that has already seen others synagogues vandalized and targeted by arsonists. The FBI, which had been involved in the region for the past two …More

A white supremacist who was arrested after informing his wife that he planned to kill Jews and blacks may have had plans to target the leader of the Anti-Defamation League, the FBI said. Danny Lee Warner, 33, was arrested Wednesday outside a McDonalds in Arizona the day after his estranged wife received a letter postmarked December 19 saying he planned to kill “niggers and Jews” until the government "stopped him." According to the police, Warner’s wife and his Internet-browsing history …More

After nearly five years, the mysterious disappearance of a former FBI agent in Iran resurfaced Friday, with the release of a hostage videotape showing him alive as of one year ago. Sixty-three-year-old Robert Levinson disappeared in March 2007 while on Kish Island, a resort in the Persian Gulf. The tape, received by Levinson’s family last November and kept under wraps while the American government tried to secure his release, says that he has been held in captivity for more than three years. The first …More

The Anti-Defamation League expressed dismay over the low number of law enforcement agencies that reported hate crimes to the FBI last year. The annual Hate Crimes Accounting, published Monday, documented only a slight rise in hate crimes from 2009 to 2010. Of the 14,977 participating agencies, only 1,949, 13 percent, reported hate crimes. ADL officials were skeptical that the majority of reporting agencies simply did not encounter hate crimes. Particularly troubling to them was that 80 cities with populations …More

A 35-year-old housewife from the American midwest has given a nightmarish account of being hauled out of her plane seat without warning, handcuffed, strip-searched and detained for hours along with her immediate seatmates – all because an unidentified fellow passenger thought she looked suspicious and it was the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Shoshana Hebshi, who is of part-Saudi, part-Jewish descent, said she believed the three of them were targeted solely because of the colour of their skin. She and her …More

Mommy blogger Shoshana Hebshi figured that flying on September 11 would be no more difficult than doing so on any other day. The Ohio housewife believed that any inconvenience resulting from additional security would be offset by shorter lines and sparsely populated flights. Instead, Arab-Jewish Hebshi was a victim of racial profiling, handcuffed and interrogated by the FBI for being seated next to two other brown Americans. Frontier Airlines Flight 623 landed in Detriot on time, but was soon boarded by a team of …More

An Israeli-American FBI translator jailed for 20 months leaked transcripts of U.S. eavesdropping on Israel's Washington embassy. Shamai Leibowitz, who was sentenced in May 2010 for leaking information he obtained as an FBI translator, sent classified documents to Richard Silverstein, who runs the Tikun Olam blog, Silverstein told The New York Times in a story Tuesday. The nature of the information has never been revealed. Silverstein said he and Leibowitz shared a concern about Israel-led efforts to persuade the …More

Last year, FBI translator Shamai K. Leibowitz was sentenced to 20 months in prison in the Obama administration’s first prosecution for leaking information to the media. The case was shrouded in secrecy; even Judge Alexander Williams Jr. didn’t know the exact details of the alleged crime. Now blogger Richard Silverstein, the recipient of the leaked information, is opening up about the contents of the documents. Leibowitz passed on secret transcripts FBI wiretaps of the Israeli embassy in Washington to …More