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Bulgaria reportedly expelled a visiting group of three Hamas legislators from Gaza on Friday, after removing them from their hotel room. The lawmakers blamed their...

Israel is making sure the favorite Americana politicians’ phrase of an “unbreakable alliance” with Israel will not be lost on visiting President Barack Obama next month.

Australian Holocaust survivors are furious with US-based Rabbi Manis Freidman for apologizing for comparing sexual abuse with diarrhea but not for expressing regret for...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has put a stop to his $2,700-a-year ice cream after Israel's Calcalist business newspaper reported the expenditure. The office of the...

The saga of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense added a new chapter Sunday with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham telling Fox News...

“Hitler” and Frankenstein” are two of 345 candidates running for state assembly seats in the predominantly Christian state of Meghalaya in India, but “Bomber”...

In a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that one of the leading candidates to replace...

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, increasingly sounding like a candidate for the 2016 presidential campaign, flew on Saturday to Jordan and Israel for a...

The Russian meteor shower that caused widespread damage Friday smashed the stained glass windows of a synagogue in Siberia Friday morning. Yechiel Michel Levitin, director...

Iran’s underground Fordow uranium nuclear enrichment plant “will never be shut down because ... our national duty is to be able to defend our...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pointed out to the Cabinet Sunday, “Today, the seventh day of the Hebrew month of Adar, is both the birthday...

President Shimon Peres told a delegation of US Senators and Congressmen Sunday, “Around us today there is a great deal of confusion, I wouldn't...

In 2011, a World Press Photo exhibit in Beirut closed early after Lebanese authorities ordered the removal of an Israeli photographer’s prize-winning work.

Two centrist Jewish groups called for further review of Chuck Hagel's record in light of an account of a 2007 speech in which he...

"Over-exposure of security and intelligence activities may seriously harm state security."

"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."

This is Stanton's centennial year (it was founded back in 1913) and having an in house theatrical company seems absolutely in line with the shul's view of itself.

Ayalon's renewed perfect recall could be his means of crushing Liberman's political life, much as Ayalon's aspirations had been crushed by Liberman.

although Hamas members entered Bulgaria legally, information was later received which gave security services reason to believe that their presence posed a serious threat for national security

An IDF spokeswoman said forces were responding to 200 stone-throwing Arabs with riot dispersal means.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said he will not run again for the U.S. Senate. Lautenberg, 89, previously had said he would consider running again in...

Jewish organizational officials were among more than 40 nonprofit officials testifying in Congress in support of keeping the charitable tax deduction. Congressional officials are considering...

this "State Department as Zionist lapdog" statement is a real zinger, but there were other statements made by Hagel at the Rutgers speech worth noting

Lionized as “the greatest builder in human history,” King Herod was also demonized for his cruelty and his shady religious origins.

What will Kerry have to offer the man who stands to lose not just his power, but his life, and, even worse, the lives of his thousands of fellow Alawites?

Two Liberal Democrat lawmakers last month suggested Israel shouldn't be judged according to special standards because of the Holocaust.

Swiss authorities turned away "only" 3,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust and not 24,500 as believed, French Nazi hunter and historian Serge Klarsfeld said. Klarsfeld...

More details are slowly coming to light in the case of Ben Zygier, also known as Prisoner X. A day before he committed suicide, Zygier...

An Israeli soccer player for a British team is sitting out a team visit to Dubai because of tensions between the emirate and Israel. The...

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