News Briefs

The U.S. government may be prepared to take extreme steps to delay the collapse of Kerry's doomed-from-the-start peace talks.

A Jewish teacher from Paris told police that three men had assaulted and cursed him in Arabic before drawing a swastika on his chest.

Israeli media quoted American Jewish groups attacking Ya'alon; at least half the quotes were re-cycled

According to the AMCHA Initiative, anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses is "growing at an alarming rate."

Panama gave Israel permission to board the vessel being used to smuggle Iranian weapons to Gaza.

Saddled with nearly $370 million in debt and an annual deficit exceeding $85 million, Hadassah Hospital struggles to chart a course back to solvency.

The IDF discovered a 4th terror tunnel from Gaza. Watch the video of its discovery.

Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.

Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled the plug on Twitter at midnight, March 20, 2014.

Swastikas, graffiti stating "kill all the Jews," and little kids playing "jail the Jew" in Bedford, Massachusetts.

The Mossad has learned that eight of 11 Iranian Jews who tried to immigrate to flee the Islamic regime and move to Israel in...

Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff said in a prison interview that he does not feel he “betrayed the Jews.” Madoff, 70, is serving a 150-year sentence...

Despite mini-crises over fake passports and Prisoner X, Australia has been one of Israel’s most reliable allies.

Robert Strauss, the son of small-town Texas shopkeepers who became an adviser to presidents of both parties, died Wednesday at the age of 95. He...

Norway’s health minister said Wednesday the countryman no intention of banning religious circumcisions but should restrict the religious practice to be carried out only...

How do you say “annihilate Israel with a nuclear bomb” in Persian?

The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary...

President Peres began with the traditional greeting in Persian and said, "Iraniane Gerami, Novruzetan Piruz Bad".

The course was designed to boost Ultra-Orthodox youth motivation to enlist, and allay religious concerns.

The inevitable failure of the "peace talks" alreasy are exploding in Israel's collective face.

From the standpoint of the Arabs, Jews indeed are guilty of incitement so long as Israel exists.

The goal of Harvard Israel Trek is to create informed, committed campus advocates. Does it?

Jewish Toulouse leader tells young Jews to leave France.

DM Ya'alon has a habit of speaking harsh truths. Not everyone likes to hear the truth. It upsets them.

An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man...

President Obama has an unshakeable and eternal bond with himself.

“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose” – Janis Joplin.

The Chabad Jewish Center in Boca Raton, Fla., was vandalized a day after an article in a local newspaper announced the center’s expansion plans. A...

If the Boycott Israel movement has any intellectual honesty, which it doesn’t, let’s see it tackle Whirlpool subsidiary KitchenAid.

Vandals scrawled a swastika and a Jewish Star of David on one of 16 fiberglass "sunfish” that were placed throughout the British city of...