Jewish leaders in the Boy Scouts of America are vocally advocating for the acceptance of gay members into the youth organization. [Forward] The story of the Pennsylvania Avenue Newseum honoring two Hamas journalists continues to grow. [Tablet] A Washington-based think tank has condemned the Newseum’s honoring of Hamas members, and threatens to break affiliations with the journalism museum. [Algemeiner] Noam Chomsky was one of twenty academics supported Stephen Hawking boycott of Israel's Presidential …More

Frolicking with her fiance in the cool waters of the Suez Canal, Lilian Abada would never have imagined she was about to experience the first of a string of events that would ultimately lead her to flee her native Egypt for Israel with only one suitcase. When Abada and her future husband, Nisso, emerged from the water that day in 1956, a security agent was waiting for them. The two teenagers were arrested for spying for Israel and interrogated for days. They were released and then rearrested, along with hundreds …More

A Mohammed Morsi aide has claimed the Holocaust was a hoax invented by the US, Fox News is reporting. “The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented,” said Fathi Shihab-Eddim. “US intelligence agencies in cooperation with their counterparts in allied nations during World War II created [the Holocaust] to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers, and especially to hit …More

A Dutch-Jewish writer is making headlines after vowing he won’t pay taxes until his government stops sending funds to Egypt. Leon de Winter, a best selling author in Holland, wrote a column in the De Telgraaf Saturday expressing his outrage at recently exposed remarks from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi has made headlines himself in recent days after a 2010 video surfaced in which the Muslim Brotherhood leader stated Jews are “descendants of apes and pigs.” De Winter called on the …More

The US has condemned recently reported comments from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who made headlines after a video showcased the leader calling Jews “descendants of apes and pigs.” Morsi has been under tight scrutiny in past months, as Israeli and US officials seek to determine whether the Muslim Brotherhood head will uphold the Egypt-Israeli peace treaty of 1979. Now, White House spokesman Jay Carney has commented on the anti-Semitic video, which was shot in 2010 but has just recently come to …More

A year of Jewish history, told through pictures. [Forward] Should Jewish laws on charity change with new tax laws? [Algemeiner] A kosher restaurant in Brussels is gaining in popularity. [Ynet] Jezebel has a new chef, and Tablet approves. [Tablet] The Muslim Brotherhood tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's annual list of most anti-Semitic groups. [JPost] A look at the family tree of Nechemya Weberman, the Satmar leader recently convicted of sexual abuse. [Forward] Newly uncovered WWII papers show a …More

A letter delivered to Israeli President Shimon Peres, presumably from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, is being called a Zionist fabrication” from Muslim Brotherhood representatives. At a Wednesday meeting at the president’s Jerusalem home, now Egyptian Ambassador Aref Salem delivered the letter in person. The note was signed by Morsi and was dated July 19. “Great and good friend,” Morsi wrote in the letter, “being desirous of maintaining and strengthening the cordial relations …More

Long time Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who stated September 30 that he would leave the group, offered some rare criticism of his Islamist party. Monday in the Quatari capital of Dohah, at a conference on Islamism and democratic rule, Mashaal commented on Hamas’ failures as a ruling party. He said that the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot had tried “to combine resistance [against Israel] and governance” but that the attempt had failed and “should not be taken as a model unless for learning a …More

A German police officer is under investigation for wearing a yarmulke while on duty--violating neutrality laws. [Times of Israel] The Muslim Brotherhood released a statement criticizing the right to create films like "Innocence of Muslims," citing anti Holocaust denial laws in Europe. [Times of Israel] A citizenship appeal for late Nazi convict John Demjanjuk has been rejected. [Associated Press] The UN's nuclear monitor has harsh words for Iran, criticizing its continued uranium enrichment. [Jerusalem Post] …More

Brooklyn bees are getting ready for Rosh Hashanah. [NY Daily News] Hebron is hit by violent price protests. [Jewish Journal] Hillary Clinton says the US does not have plans to set deadlines for Iran, despite rumors to the contrary. [Jewish Journal] An Israeli band is invading Britain. [Tablet] A Muslim Brotherhood official shuns Israelis at an international conference. [Times of Israel] The smart phone joins the shofar as a High Holy Day accessory. [Times of Israel] Catch up on the 25 best "Seinfeld" …More

A day after Israel's foreign minister called on Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to visit Israel, a Muslim Brotherhood official called such a visit impossible. "There is no possibility for Morsi to visit the Zionist entity," Gamal Heshmat of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party told an Egyptian online news magazine, Ynet reported. "President Morsi's patriotism will not allow him to do so," Heshmat said, saying that the presidential palace will turn down the invitation. Avigdor Lieberman issued the …More

Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, is apparently planning to visit the United States in September. AFP reports: "Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi, the country's first civilian and Islamist head of state, will visit the United States on September 23, state media reported on Wednesday." "The official MENA news agency quoted Morsi's spokesman Yassir Ali as saying the president will attend a United Nations General Assembly session in New York and then head to Washington to meet …More