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The group left Quebec for Ontario last week. They all left at once, in the middle of the night, in rented buses.

A United Nations report says the use of electric shock “Taser” guns is a form of torture. The US uses it only in extreme cases. And Israel? It is okay to shoot a settler, lying on the floor, with electric shocks.

He was bigger than life.

Einstein, 74, is considered Israel's greatest singer of all times.

The IDF’s elimination of a Hevron-area Salafist jihad terror cell that plotted to kill Palestinian Authority officials as well as Israelis is evidence that Abbas cannot control terror, not even against his own people.

The Zionist Organization of America blasted the interim Iran deal in the strongest terms, describing the agreement concluded over the weekend in Geneva between ...

Harvard Law School professor and vocal Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz said the deal reached in Geneva under which Iran promised to stop uranium enrichment...

Disney Documentary has bought the Israeli animated story of “Dolphin Boy,” about an Israeli Arab who became mute after being a brutal beating in...

Elie Wiesel received the President’s Medal of Distinction from Israeli President Shimon Peres in a ceremony in New York Monday night. Wiesel, a survivor of...

Two soldiers received medals on Monday for their quick action. Oh, and one of the soldiers is an Arab.

Bracha Kapach, wife of a scholarly rabbi from Yemen and more widely known as the “Chicken Lady,” died Tuesday morning in Jerusalem at the...

Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?

On November 18, Palestine’s UN delegation cast a vote for the first time as a non-member observer state, after the General Assembly had voted...

Netanyahu insisted Israel was not bound by it.

Her attacker is still at large.

Jewish immigration from France to Israel has increased by 49 percent in the first nine months of 2013 compared to last year. Through September, 2,185...

An autistic child is at the helm at the State Dept.

Israel markets itself as a global leader in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency, but it can only do so, claim the Haverford College-sponsored speakers - because they use the "West Bank" and Gaza as labs and the Arabs as their experimental mice.

Hanukkah seems to be politically correct this year. So is the African American holiday Kwanzaa, both of which were honored with new US postage stamps. The Christians struck out this year – and are angry.

At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months after being identified as a...

There is nothing worse for Jews than a good looking and do-good non-Jewish woman doctor who sees the world through her stethoscope and thinks Jews are ignorant of health because they circumcise babies.

The IDF humanitarian delegation to the Philippines will leave from home on Wednesday and bring with them  two Philippine children who will be transferred...

The Home Front Command will carry out what it called a routine drill Tuesday through Thursday in the Western Galilee to maintain preparedness for...

It now is official. This year’s rare coincidence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving will be known as “Thanksgivukkah” where the Boston Tea Party took place,...

Archaeologists are having a field day in excavations prior to the widening of a highway west of Jerusalem and have found evidence of the change from a rural to urban society 5,000 years ago.

Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with...

The Defense Ministry announced Monday it already has approved the planning stage for new homes already announced for construction in Judea and Samaria. The reporting...

Apple has made short shrift of recent denials of Israel’s PrimeSense gesture recognition company that it is being bought out and has and confirmed...

A police raid on two homes before the elections last month uncovered 250 false identification cards that people intended to use to cast extra ballots.

She became a rabbinic associate in 2008 at the temple, then agreed to enroll in a distance learning-program, but didn't.