News Briefs

A British lawmaker apologized for remarks comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labor Party made...

Israeli lawmaker David Rotem offered a full apology for reportedly saying the Reform movement “is not Jewish.”

The impatient Supreme Court, in its haste to get the numbers on paper, has created needless political battles.

Allen said he will not address the accusations again.

The assassination attempt was executed in cooperation with the Shabac-GSS.

Spain’s Jewish community congratulated the government for approving a bill proposing to facilitate the naturalization of Sephardic Jews of Spanish descent. On Friday, Spain’s government...

A French court cleared comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala of charges connected to a video in which he called for the release of a man...

Rabbi Michael Broyde, a prominent Modern Orthodox figure, resigned from the Rabbinical Council of America as a result of the scandal over his use...

A Long Island yeshiva student was charged with repeatedly scrawling antisemitic graffiti inside a commuter train station. Jonathan Schuster, 18, a senior at Priority-1: Torah...

The Senate unanimously urged the State Department to renegotiate the terms for the return to Iraq of an archive of Iraqi Jewish texts. The resolution...

Obama administration officials briefed Jewish and Arab-American student leaders on the peace process. Among the participants in Thursday’s three-hour White House briefing were students affiliated...

The Anti-Defamation League awarded its highest honor to former President George W. Bush. The ADL presented its America’s Democratic Legacy Award to the former president...

A Belgian supermarket chain has recalled a costume which is meant to allow children to dress up as prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The...

Iran is serious in its intention to improve relations with Saudi Arabia, hoping that both sides will try to revive the lost trust, Ali-Akbar...

The PA has renewed ties with Iran and is threatening to bring back suicide bombers. Does this concern anyone?

Kerry has no illusion at all regarding the Arab League's plans for Israel. On Friday it became even clearer.

The church "study guide" casts supporters of the Jewish homeland as "inherently racist and abusive."

Who would have imagined that things Jewish on the Lower East Side of New York would get so tough that local Jewish residents must...

Rabbi David Zicherman, one of the leaders of the Jerusalem Haredim, called the draft Jewish annihilation decrees of 5774.

Syrian rebels seized part of a major government prison near Aleppo after it staged a car bomb attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for...

Palestinian Authority Arabs from the village of Al Aroob rioted and blocked the only road connecting Gush Etzion with Kiryat Arba-Hevron Thursday night and...

Israel cannot dare say a bad word about Secretary of State Kerry, but the State Dept. can curse the EU.

Academic boycotts of Israel are Anti-Semitic; American taxpayers must not be forced to be complicit.

Terrorists form Gaza attacked Israel with one and possibly two missiles on Thursday despite pledges by Hamas that it would halt rocket firing. Either Hamas...

An Israel Knesset Member got a whack on his tongue for angering the Diaspora.

The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary's ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally at a...

Haredim could turn hate into love by serving in the army and showing non-religious soldiers the Light of Torah,

Mohammed Dahlan, the former Fatah party strongman in Gaza, denied on Thursday that he recently met with Shlomo Molcho, one of Israel’s two negotiators...

A Dallas-area rabbi who uses his home as a synagogue is being sued by a neighbor who says it has lowered his property values. Rabbi...

Jews are better off with ignorant anti-Semites rather than with those who have a normal IQ.