News Briefs

Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, youth director at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, will be introducing a new art installation in honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of Trees, inspired by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.

More than 2,000 people have made contributions in memory of the young victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut to plant a grove of trees in Israel.

Shoshana Hebshi, a half-Jewish, half-Arab woman from Ohio is suing Frontier Airlines, the FBI, TSA and other governmental agencies after she says she was forced off a flight, strip-searched, and imprisoned on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.

Women may enter military combat in the United States, following the lift of a military ban on women in combat by defense secretary Leon Panetta.

According to Dershowitz, Glemp "was forced to apologize" as the result of Dershowitz's lawsuit against him.

The Jewish National Fund will reconsider a plan to forest parts of the Arava desert, following the request of environmental organizations to consider the impact of trying to alter the native ecosystem.

The government is unable to make good on a ban that's been on the books since 2006.

Since the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident there have been many behind the scenes efforts to calm political tensions.

Temple Israel was vandalized back in November, when someone wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the building.

The (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly shares remarks, photos from Yair Lapid’s address to its 2012 convention.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Israel and western countries not to attempt to stop Iran’s nuclear program through military means.

Israeli stocks and bounds advanced following elections, “as investors bet Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition would weaken ultra-Orthodox factions as the nation seeks to narrow its budget deficit,” according to a report by Bloomberg business news.

Yesh Atid perceives a possible peace process as a response to an ensemble of threats looming over the State of Israel.

President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.

Rock music festival Lollapalooza, which was scheduled to take place August 20-22 at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, has been cancelled.

Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster, and the University of Haifa have teamed up to prove that chess can make you smarter and better adjusted.

Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said.

Counting of the 250,000 votes from soldiers, hospitals, embassies and prisoners are expected to only be completed on Thursday. As a result, some of the...

Bibi want to block democracy within the Likud.

These are the final results for the elections to the 19th Knesset.

Update: There was a slight surge for the religious/right during the middle of the counting, but in the end it didn't pan out. As the...

Who's in, who's not in the 19th Knesset.

Satmar counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years.

Yair Lapid will be calling the shots at this point.

Jewish Home received only 12 seats.

Is the Likud in danger?

For an Israeli election race where no one can actually say what the important issues of the race are, voter turnout has been at...

He called for a return to peace talks "without preconditions."

In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting...

On Tuesday afternoon, the IDF captured and arrested the Arab terrorist that seriously injured a guard from Yitzhar. During the attack that occurred around December 17, 2012,...