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David Rudge, a throwback to journalism’s glory days - comment

“David was an old-school news reporter, always looking to get to the scene and talk to people first-hand rather than rely on secondary sources,” said Jeff Barak, a former Post editor-in-chief.

 DAVID RUDGE in Haifa.

Bank Leumi speaks your language: Stop translating – start banking!

A view of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

CBS memo sparks outrage: Journalists instructed not to acknowledge Jerusalem as part of Israel

 SLOGANS AT a protest in Tel Aviv last Saturday night include calls for releasing the hostages and an early Knesset election. First. the anti-government protesters politicized the military; now, they politicize the hostage families, the writer charges.

Government tried to take apart, influence Hostage Family Forum - unofficial probe


White House: Trump fired FBI director James Comey

US President Donald Trump fired FBI head James Comey in a shocking move on Tuesday night, following a recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Former FBI Director James Comey

Star Catcher: Astrology for the week of May 5, 2017

TIP FOR THE WEEK: Busy week. Try to be flexible and plan accordingly.

Deep space bright nebula

The news media are free … to be ideological and biased

The Jerusalem Post

Erdan continues push to dismantle the IBA

The disappearance of programs such as IBA News are of great concern to English language speakers whose Hebrew is insufficient to follow Hebrew language news broadcasts.

IBA EMPLOYEES protest outside the Knesset yesterday. The sign reads, ‘Democracy=Public Broadcasting’

America needs unbiased Middle East reporting for the 2016 election

The American electorate has been ill served by politically skewed foreign news coverage that markets political advocacy as news.

The headquarters of the New York Times is pictured on 8th Avenue in New York

Say-Way כָּך אוֹמְרִים בְּאַנְגְלִית

New app: Say-Way: This Is How It’s Said in English

New app: Say-Way: This Is How It’s Said in English

From Beersheba to Jerusalem

My jaw dropped – driving around Beersheba for three days with an advanced octogenarian from outback northwest Queensland would be a challenge.

A GROUP of North Americans pass Ein Avdat in the Negev Desert during last month’s inaugural Taglit-Birthright Israel Extreme Outdoors Tour

On CIA interrogation report, Cheney says ends justified the means

There is "no moral equivalence," Cheney asserted, in comparing CIA tactics after 9/11 to what "nineteen guys armed with airline tickets" inflicted on Washington and New York that day.

Demonstrator reenacts waterboarding in Washington anti-torture protest, 2007

The dream of curing ‘silent angels’

Rett’s syndrome is a devastating neurological disease that develops spontaneously in the uterus and is not inherited from one’s parents. But there is hope for an eventual cure.

A doctor stands with stethoscope in this undated handout photo.

When times are tough

Europeans dust off their thinking caps.

An iron dome launches rockets to intercept incoming rockets from Gaza on Tuesday.