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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only on the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister...

President Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States would consult closely with Israel as talks with Iran go forward. “Consistent with...

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada would be watching Iran closely over the coming weeks and months.

The dialogue was reported by members of the pro-Western March 14 coalition, driven out of power in 2011.

Some law enforcement officials fear labeling "Knockout" a hate crime as it may inspire more copycat attacks, while several public officials have pushed for wider discussion of the trend and increased penalties.

Saudi Arabia is loudly silent on the deal with Iran, but its royal billionaire prince who owns part of Twitter and Apple says “we” are concerned. And guess who is “We”? Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and loyalists to Syrian President Bassar al-Assad has claimed at least 160 lives in the suburbs of Damascus the...

The student-run Harvard Ichthus Christian blog website apologized for an anonymous post by a Jewish convert to Christianity who wrote that Jews deserve to...

The folks at the State's Attorney have dossiers on everyone in government, and they're not afraid to use them.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only on the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister...

Joint Plan of Action Preamble The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iranˈs nuclear program will...

President Shimon Peres played to role of Pollyanna following the “P5+1” deal with Iran and said, “This is an interim deal. The success or...

More than 11,000 children have been killed in the Syrian civil war, any of them starved to death and shot and tortured, according to...

The Land of Milk and Honey also is the Land of Wine, not only today with wines that have won world prizes but also 3,700 years ago, according to a new discovery by a US-led archaeological team.

What was achieved last night in Geneva is not an historic agreement; it is an historic mistake.

Naftali Bennett said that "if in five years a nuclear suitcase explodes in New York or Madrid, it will be because of this deal."

It's 1938, the Munich Treaty signed, countdown to Sept. 1, 1939 has begun.

On Shabbat morning, a Jewish man in Antwerp, Belgium, on his way to synagogue was beaten by a Moslem. The Moslem began to beat the...

The official text from President Obama on the P5+1 deal with Iran.

Montreal's Jewish General Hospital is squarely opposed to a new "Secularism Charter" introduced into the Quebec legislature this month.

A man allegedly hit Perl square in the face, making him the latest victim of the vicious assault that's been terrifying New York City’s Jews.

Citing anti-Semitic content, a French court sanctioned a publishing house for five books, including one first printed more than a century ago. The court in...

Finnish police are investigating whether a captain overloaded a boat that sought to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The captain, Mika Jamian, is...

The man born Jacob Leon Rubenstein allegedly told his rabbi the day after shooting Lee Harvey Oswald that he did it to "show that Jewish had guts."

An email from an athletic trainer at the U.S. Air Force Academy pledging to “talk about Jesus Christ” at work does not reflect Air...

Israel’s proposal that Iran totally dismantle its nuclear capacity in exchange for sanctions relief would likely lead to war, a top White House official...

U.S. Senate leaders pledged to revisit intensified Iran sanctions after the Thanksgiving holiday. “The Senate must be prepared to move forward with a new bipartisan...

There is no such thing as a homosexual person, man or woman, in halacha. There are only homosexual acts.

The Jewish community of Paraguay inaugurated a new Jewish museum which includes the country’s first Holocaust studies center. The Walter Kochmann Jewish Museum of Paraguay,...

A poll showed majority support for the Obama administration strategy of easing sanctions on Iran in exchange for a partial rollback of its nuclear...