News Briefs

If you don’t like a law, just tear it up. That is what eight Arab MKs did last month, but Ahmed Tibi also dumped water on it at the Knesset podium. Now he is banned as Deputy Speaker and must pay a fine.

Two Jews were stabbed in separate  attacks in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and police are investigating the possibility that one or both of them were...

President Barack Obama’s approval has sunk to only one percentage point above the all-time low in November 2011, according to a new poll released...

A New York court sentenced on Tuesday Palestinian Authority Arab-American Andy Ashkar up to 25 years in jail for stealing a winning $5 million...

One policeman was killed and at least 29 others were wounded Wednesday when an unknown attacker hurled a high-powered bomb, or possibly rocket-propelled grenades,...

Rabbi Ratzon Arusi withdrew his candidacy for Chief Sephardi Rabbi, one hour before balloting began Wednesday afternoon. His withdrawal leaves three candidates in the...

Israel’s increasing arms exports has made it one of the most important in the world, with a record $7.5 billion worth of arms exported...

Ryan Braun, whose father is from Israel, not only lost the chance to play out the reason of the season with the Milwaukee Brewers...

A European rabbinical group has created a union to include every mohel - ritual circumciser - in an effort to standardize ritual circumcision and...

The D.C. applellate court declared unconstitutional the legislative effort by congress to force the US to recognize that Jerusalem is part of Israel. That they did so is not surprising, but why the Executive branch is so afraid of having Jerusalem next to Israel even just on a piece of paper should be shocking.

Tonight we may no who the two chief rabbis are, and it might very well be the last time there are two instead of one.

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash, in a sermon attended by PA President Mahmoud Abbas on the day that renewed peace...

Ronit Minker, the Eshkol region spokesperson reports that there were two strikes in the southern Eshkol region at around 10:20 AM, from Gaza. No...

Dahlan is pushing an assortment of lawsuits in various European courts.

Six people were killed and 33 injured in clashes early Tuesday, between supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, outside Cairo University,...

The Dutch branch of the German supermarket chain Aldi has backtracked from its stated policy of boycotting products made by Israelis in Judea and...

A Polish government minister asked Jewish and Muslim representatives to petition the country’s Constitutional Court to sort out conflicting laws that have led to...

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will draft guidelines by the end of the year requiring all products from Israeli settlements to be...

Says promised referendum is a deception.

Israeli police have arrested a Palestinian Authority teenager for holding an Israeli woman at knifepoint. A resident of Tulkarm, located east of Netanya, allegedly pressed...

Israel is enjoying an unexpected benefit– so far- from Hezbollah’s joining Assad’s forces in Syria. Hundreds have been wounded, and the death toll is estimate at well over 200.

In the aftermath of an ugly scandal, as the 92nd St Y starts a search for a new executive director, it should institute guidelines not only about morality and criminality, but also to prevent Jewish communal dollars from being used to support boycotters and other haters of Israel

President Peres sent a special message of congratulations on Tuesday in honor of the birth of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's new...

What do Rami Levi, Harel Wizel and Eil Orgad have in common? They are Israelis stores in Judea and Samaria. They also may be the key to destroying the peace process and making real peace.

A Cleveland area synagogue is raising funds to help Ursuline College repaid serious damage caused by a tornado that ripped through its athletic center...

President Barack Obama is closer to presenting a plan to directly arm Syrian rebels, but he still faces Congressional opposition. “The House Intelligence Committee has...

Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles have convinced a company to take down a billboard that showed a mostly naked woman promoting an energy drink,...

Britain’s most popular baby has a Jewish connection, sort of. Kate gave birth in a hospital wing funded by a Jew. Suppose a Jew from the “settlements’ had given the money. Would Kate have boycotted it?

A shooting has just occurred in the Mercaz Clal building, in the center of Jerusalem. Two people in a third floor law office were...

The number of anti-Semitic incidents dropped 14 percent nationwide last year, but vandalism rose, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents...