News Briefs

Secretary of State John Kerry, fresh off his confirmation, spoke with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Also over the weekend, two top State Department officials...

Civil rights lawyers are not buying the New York Police Department’s claim that surveillance of Muslims helps fight terrorism, and they have filed suit...

The 19th Knesset opens Tuesday with new blood and totally different faces that may change Israel’s wildest tragic-comedy show into a more serious parliament. More...

A major orthodox Jewish New York developer wants to open up a new Jewish Lower East Side kosher restaurant to replace the old Schildkraut...

New York City will rename a subway station in memory of Edward Koch, the three-term mayor who died last week. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)...

Sen. John McCain has tweeted what every rational journalist wanted to write Monday: “So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't...

He explained at the time that he could not bear the idea that his body would have to leave New York City. "This is my home, the idea of having to go to New Jersey was so distressing to me."

A mechina is based on traditional Torah learning, but it also dedicates a significant chunk of its curriculum to developing Torah-based leadership skills and real-life tools outside of the classroom

A British judge reportedly has accepted a U.S. rabbinical court’s ruling in a dispute between a haredi Orthodox man and his ex-wife.

Some 100 imams will commemorate the Holocaust at a memorial monument near Paris. Monday's event is planned for Drancy, a suburb of the French capital where tens...

German Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller is in hot water with German politicians for stating that "targeted discrimination campaigns" against Catholic church positions on ordination...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to Iran’s first human astronaut, according to his regime’s official media outlet, only two days after Western media...

The Palestinian Authority’s senior negotiator has responded to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call for a resumption of peace talks by saying that to do so...

Dubai Police Chief has recently attempted to discredit the Brotherhood by alleging a nefarious allegiance to Israel and Jews.

The Jewish community of Warsaw is advancing plans to demolish one of its historical, ghetto-era buildings in favor of new offices that would replace...

Assad’s propaganda machine has dreamed up a novel twist to get out of looking weak by not retaliating against Israel. Actually it was Israel...

Israel police caught an Arab who fled the scene after he tried to stab a Haredi Jew near Mea Shearim late Monday morning. The...

Ed Koch will be honored at his funeral by former President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. At the service Monday morning,...

On the day of the ceremony, the entrance to the Jewish Agency building in the city was blocked by snow.

Praising suicide bombers while demanding peace with Israel continues to be the two-pronged strategy of the Palestinian Authority. The official Facebook page of Fatah, headed...

The two parties agreed that they would either join the coalition together or not at all.

A new study funded by the U.S. State Dept. unsurprisingly concludes that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority textbooks ignore the other side even...

Likud officials told Reshet Bet Radio that negotiations on cobbling a coalition are going sluggishly, as all the parties appear to be entrenched in...

Producing wine atop a tranquil mountain in a remote area of northern California is quite a way to make a living. For Benyamin Cantz,...

The IDF Sunday night resumed a crackdown on Hamas politicians active in Judea and Samaria and arrested nine senior Hamas legislators. Soldiers also took into...

More than 3,000 Gaza teenagers have earned a degree as “resistance fighters,” and de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is making sure they...

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz landed in the United States Sunday for a week of talks, hosted by U.S. Chairman of...

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who campaigned on an anti-Israel platform, vowed never to visit Jerusalem, and whose country is on the brink of bankruptcy,...

A green bell pepper affectionately dubbed “Godzilla” by the children of Moshav Ein Yahav in the northern Arava desert has won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The Sunday Times of London apologized for publishing an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement.