News Briefs

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive a top award from Europe's mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body, the Conference of European Rabbis. It announced Monday that Merkel...

A Cleveland Jewish man’s ability to finish the Boston Marathon in less than four hours helped save him from injuries, or worse, in the...

It took the White House an hour or more until it could bring itself to say that the attacks in Boston were “terror.” A Saudi student is under questioning. But it is just an “isolated” incident.

"If we were able to establish Bnei Brak, Elad Modi'in Ilit, Laniado hospital and Ezer M'Zion, we will also succeed in setting up an electric company, roads, and whatever else is required."

“You can imagine the pandemonium. Everyone was running, and glass was flying around."

This really is Independence Day! Satmar sets up an emergency panel to hustle IDF Draft Refugees’ out of Israel lest they be contaminated by serving the country. Let them be America’s problem.

What a brew! A Scottish brew master, his Tunisian wife and two Yanks operate a boutique brewery. They produce several hundred bottles a month and plan more.

An orthodox British Jew serving time in jail for trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine is suing prison officials for discrimination...

The IDF soon will install protective systems onboard its smartphones used by the IDF to protect them against digital Trojan horses and prevent various...

Israeli Air Force pilots won’t be flying the controversial and costly F35 Stealth Lightning fighter plane before 2016, but everyone now has a glimpse of how the advanced jet makes a vertical landing.

Prof. Judea Pearl said at Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers in Jerusalem Sunday night that the terrorists’’ brutal execution of his son Daniel...

A French Jewish group which last month sued Twitter for hosting anti-Semitic content has lodged a fresh complaint against the company and accused it...

“I don’t hate nobody, I don’t even remember. . . . It don’t make no sense.”

Following the resignation of France’s chief rabbi in a plagiarism scandal, the Vatican reaffirmed its support for his position against same-sex marriage. Rabbi Gilles Bernheim,...

"This discrimination inside the military cemeteries shames all of us."

Palestinian Authority media report that the IDF shot a disabled man who had been in a wheelchair. So how did he manage to throw hammers at soldiers and try to snatch a rifle. IDF: Terror plot foiled.

Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who was killed in the Entebbe rescue, was an inspiration to Natan Sharansky while imprisoned...

Kerry tried to follow Obama’s first-term act to “hit the ground running” in the Mideast but so far he is stuck in the sand. Fayyad’s resignation is another feather out of Kerry’s cap.

Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, stayed for about an hour and wrote in the guestbook, "Truly inspiring...

Israeli reserve soldiers prevented a major terrorist attack in Sunday by arresting a Palestinian Authority terrorist at the checkpoint immediately west of Kfar Saba,...

Hamas-controlled Gaza and Iran have strengthened ties with a “sister-city” agreement linking Tabriz, located in northwestern Iran, with Gaza City, according to the Fars...

Take 740 gallons paint, let a Yemenite Chabadnik work day and night for three weeks and – presto – see a huge Israel flag display in Eilat that can be seen from Jordan.

”From the moment the state was established, it has not ceased to wish for peace with its neighbors and to the same degree, its...

“This commonsense bill would remove unnecessary hurdles for elderly immigrants."

The UJA Federation of New York’s William Rosenwald Mission landed in Israel Sunday with 200 leaders who will be celebrating the country’s 65th anniversary...

Tens of thousands of people participated Friday afternoon in the funeral procession of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the eldest son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit the Gaza Strip at the end of May, the Istanbul-based daily Hurriyet reported Sunday. Erdogan promised to...

There was a clash on Saturday at the Guantanamo Bay maximum security prison for suspected terrorists, after the military closed a communal section of...

It's Israel‘s 65th Independence Day, and time for stats!

The cells are grown from a single foreskin obtained more than 20 years ago.