News Briefs

It might be best to say the Traveler’s Prayer on the airplane before putting on tefillin.

Gazan terrorists shot at an IDF patrol near Kissufim. No soldiers were injured in the attack. The IDF fired back at the source of fire.

A Lod district court has decided that former Israeli president, Moshe Katzav, will stay in prison for Pesach.

A 16-year-old student wounded 22, several critically, in a mass stabbing spree at a Pennsylvania high school Wednesday.

Naftali Bennett is urging Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to annex Jewish settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria.

U.S. mediators are in Jerusalem “helping” Israeli and Palestinian Authority negotiators get back to the table and back to work.

Israel has launched another military satellite to keep an eye on Iran as Tehran ramps up its nuclear development program.

Hirsi Ali's critics wanted her silenced; Brandeis granted their wish.

Israel successfully  launched its “Ofek 10” satellite Wednesday night from the Palmachim Air Force Base near Tel Aviv. The satellite has photo capabilities in all...

It won’t happen so soon, but it is only a matter of time until Jewish in Efrat finally can be like Jews in Tel Aviv.

Oh, man, it’s the end of an era.

A new “Samson” military transport plane purchased from the United States, was inaugurated into the IAF today at the Nevatim airbase near Be’er Sheva.

Tit-for-tat retaliation for terror is a form, of Russian Roulette that leaves southern Israel living on miracles.

Gazans are among the principal victims of the terror-addicted Hamas Islamists.

A mortar from Gaza hit inside the Israeli town, the alarm did not go off...

Maryland lawmakers failed to vote on a bill that would have required the French rail firm SNCF to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors in...

The familiar symbol of the Israeli flag that adorns El Al airplanes will be accompanied the logo of the Vatican when the airline brings...

“You shall set up judges and police…in all your cities…and they shall judge…[with] righteous judgment.” – Devarim, 16:18.

Security police arrested a 16-year-old boy in Yitzhar on Wednesday for throwing rocks at police during the morning, one day after 50 young people...

Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation,...

Two Israeli Merkava tanks crossed the electronic fence on the northern border and entered Lebanese territory Tuesday, the Lebanese-run National News Agency reported. The IDF...

The United States has awakened to the fact that Tehran is ignoring its policies and moving ahead with nuclear development.

A gold signet ring naming Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I was found in an ancient coffin in the Jezreel Valley.

Children in the Binyamin Jewish community of Shiloh are hard at work baking matzohs for Passover -- as usual.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered all but one Israeli negotiator to cut contact with their PA counterparts.

Brandeis buckled to those who embrace diversity and tolerance only of their own views.

A French mayor from the far-right National Front party evicted from city-owned offices an anti-racism group inspired by the Dreyfus trial. Steeve Briois, who was...

Every time Kerry opens his mouth about his Peace Talks Follies, he only makes things worse, especially for himself.

China gave President Shimon Peres the royal welcome Tuesday, with Chinese President Xi Jinping stating that the Jewish people and the Chinese share a...

American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross has gone on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment in a Cuban jail and the lack of American assistance. “I...