News Briefs

Muhammad Helmy, an Egyptian doctor who lived in Berlin during the war rescued a Jewish family, but his own family ignores his Yad Vashem praise.

You may not know it, but my name is mud in Turkey, and it's all because I insist on writing my opinion. It's a curse.

MK Moshe Feiglin sustained injures in a bicycle accident Sunday morning. Feiglin was out on his bike, riding on the Samaria lanes when he fell...

IDF troops shot the infiltrator as he attempted to breach the town's fence.

This massive amount of money is not going towards schools, medical centers, or social programs - just terrorism.

Shapiro tweeted: “US condemns terrorist tunnels, supports Israel’s right and ability to self-defense, and is focused on advancing negotiations for peace.”

A Jewish hospital near Amsterdam became the first healthcare facility in the Netherlands to receive official recognition for its environmentally friendly practices. Jacques Moors, the...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations hired a Jewish filmmaker and interfaith activist as executive director of the group’s Philadelphia office. Jacob Bender is the highest...

A lawyer from Lyon in eastern France has been disbarred for filing a motion to disqualify a Jewish judge because of his origins. The French...

Representatives of the Jewish community of Gdansk, Poland, said the torching of a mosque had “frightening connotations” of the Nazi-inspired Kristallnacht pogroms against Jews. The...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet in Rome with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss talks with the Palestinians and Iran. Kerry...

Saudi Arabia rejected assuming the seat it just won on the UN Security Council.

Jewish Home probably siphoned off 2 seats from Lapid and 1 from Shas, to grow to 15 seats in this survey.

Glatt kosher hotdog manufacturer Abeles & Heymann is donating $10,000 in hotdogs to the Masbia soup kitchen.

Russia is filling in the vacuum in Egpyt that the U.S. is leaving behind.

Yosef Kolko, 39, was sentenced late Thursday in Toms River, N.J. to close to 13 years, after the judge refused to let him take...

In Israel there may be lots of strife between men of the cloth and the men and women of the pickax and the shovel—usually...

A new survey shows that many European Jews hide their faith due to fear of antisemitism. The online poll by the European Union Agency for...

In a sign of the growing revival of Polish Jewish life, a new Jewish Community Center is set to open in Warsaw on Oct....

With the backdrop of positive steps on Jewish-Catholic relations under Pope Francis I, more than 50 leaders from both faiths gathered in Madrid, Spain,...

A Belgian radio ad that is accused of drawing on Holocaust themes to promote a ban on ritual slaughter has drawn sharp criticism from...

It had to happen.  You knew it was going to happen. What with Iran getting a lead role on the Disarmament and International Security Committee,...

Niso Shacham ordered his police officers to violently beat civilians, ahead of the Gush Katif expulsion.

"I'm used to sitting in jail cells with serial killers, did they think I would be intimidated by some American college students?" Berko said in a phone interview on Wednesday evening with The Jewish Press.

Four young Palestinian Authority girls died of suffocation in a car near Hevron while their parents were picking olives Thursday. One other girl in...

Tractors are not deadly weapons – except when they are driven Palestinian Authority terrorists. The IDF killed the driver after he crashed a gate at an IDF base and tried to kill a soldier.

Israel’s supermodel Bar Rafaeli is known as a tough cookie. Samsung did not what it was getting itself into when it used her online broadcasts for a commercial without permission. Now they are paying for it.

Mayor Nir Barkat would win re-election for mayor with 47 percent of the vote, compared with 41 percent for challenger Moshe Leon, according to...

America as a melting pot is the biggest threat to Jews, who want to be so politically correct that even the name “Redskins” draws the ADL to ruin the party just when Americans finally have a fun issue.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is moving ahead with policy of keeping infiltration of Africans at zero and to move ahead with a rapid deportation...