News Briefs

FGM is again on the rise in Egypt. A 14 year old Egyptian girl died this week after undergoing the procedure.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, at the time the ballot closed, in the Beit Shemesh elections, 76% of eligible voters voted, compared...

Retired Supreme Court Edmund Levy, who headed a three-man committee that debunked allegations that Israel is an “occupier,” died Tuesday night at the age...

Nadia Haroun, the deputy head of Egypt's Jewish community was buried on Thursday.

The youth wing of Sweden’s Liberal party organized a “love bombing” Monday night and pasted heart-shaped papers on the same school that was attacked...

Norwegian Cruise Lines dropped Tunisia from its itineraries after the country refused to allow Israeli citizens to disembark in the Port of Tunis. About 20...

“More than the Jews have kept the Shabbos (Sabbath), the Shabbos has kept the Jews.”

Bye-bye to the right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists, weirdoes and maybe Tzipi Livni.

Three Hamas terrorists were killed on Tuesday in an explosion that was “all part of a day’s work” of preparing rockets and bombs for...

The Priceline online ticketing and reservation company has bought Israeli-based start-up Qlika for around $3 million, according to the VentureBeat website. Qlika, based in the...

An airline owned by the United Arab Emirates said it “emphatically refutes” claims that it excludes Israel from its official travel-route map and refuses...

Either the IDF has privately admitted it goofed or Netanyahu is scared of Jordan when he needs him most.

Ruderman Foundation announces $250K prize for programs to ensure inclusion into the Jewish community to those with disabilities.

It is up to Defense Minister Ya’alon to decide if a court ruling in favor of Hebron Jews has any meaning at all.

A Jewish scribe has restored an 18th century copy of the Book of Esther that was donated to Catholic Nuns.

One of the passengers aboard the Malaysian Airlines plane that vanished is a Jewish Russian national, Nikolai Brodskii, 43, of the Siberian city of...

Anti-Semitism is not the best reason to make aliyah, but it is better than being dead.

The rapid isolation of Hamas by former allies is making it easier for the IDF to hit hard and fast.

Brooklyn College has finally apologized to the four Jewish Pro-Israel students it ejected from a BDS forum last year.

The Jewish Press apologizes to its readers for the unfortunate op-ed article published on Monday.

Iranian middeman purchased the tickets used by the passengers holding stolen passports on missing Malaysian airplane.

The White House finally has come out with a statement condemning the ship carrying Iranian missiles destined for Gaza, but only after it took...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is nothing more than a PR man the real ruler of Iran is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is...

The cyber hackers are crawling out of the woodwork for “Hacktivists month” in April.

Leo Bretholz, who had escaped from a train transporting him to a Nazi death camp, died the weekend before he was to testify on...

American born Oleh to Ginot Shomron, Ari Harow, returns to the Prime Minister's office.

The IDF opened fire on the terrorist as he was throwing a stone at a moving vehicle.

A plan to stop tax evasion also threatens to break all limits of confidentiality of Americans in Israel.

The Arab League refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in the framework of current peace talks with the Palestinians, as per Israel’s...

Sexist and often violent, corrupt and even anti-Zionist Haredim in Beit Shemesh create a false image of the city.