News Briefs

Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss is theoretically very vulnerable to a primary challenger in 2014, and his fate will depend on whether anyone is interested...

President Barack Obama is expected to announce his nominees for secretaries of state and defense in the next two weeks, with former Republican Senator...

Syrian military is just waiting for the "go" order from the embattled President Bashar Al-Assad.

Bibi's contribution: "She knows how to get the job done." Doesn't she, now.

Amir Peretz, former Histadrut union chief and former Defense Minister, is now a former member of the Avoda (Labor) party. He is moving over...

Heralding the worsening of relations between Israel and Europe, the European Union is reportedly mulling the passing of sanctions on Israel, including the restriction of marketing Israeli goods and the boycott of goods made by Jews in Judea and Samaria – as punishment for Israel’s decision to develop additional housing in areas Palestinians say should be theirs.

Thousands of pro and anti-Morsi forces clashed into the night outside the presidential palace.

In the years since the Rabbinical Council of America's first comment about JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality), "the only Jewish based organization...

Egyptian newspapers are reporting that thousands of pro and anti Morsi Egyptians demonstrators are still violently protesting and clashing over the proposed new constitution. Hundreds...

Speaker of the Knesset Rueven Rivlin (Likud) said Wednesday that he would be willing to be moved lower on the joint Likud Yisrael Beitenu...

F-16 engines, worth millions of shekels, were stolen from an Air Force base in central Israel, according to Walla. Unlike previous incidents on IDF bases...

The Kinneret Bot reports: In the last 2 days the water level of the Kinneret rose 2cm to -212.38m, 62cm above the lower red line. This...

A leak in Liberman's world, commented the Channel 10 news reporter, is tantamount to betrayal.

MK Aryeh Eldad (Strength to Israel) and Knesset candidate Moshe Feiglin (Likud) traded barbs today over ideological purity and compromise in politics.

More than 200 Grassroots Community Leaders Endorse Former Community Board 1 Chair and Downtown Leader.

On Wednesday, the Civil Administration Planning Council rushed through approval on the plan to build 3000 apartments in E1, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim.

Had Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Tevi Troy would be director of domestic policy on his transition team.

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives elevated Rep. Nita Lowey of New York's 18th congressional district (Westchester and Rockland counties), to their ranking...

Ahmed Ferhani, one of two men arrested in an undercover sting in May 2011 and charged with attempting to blow up synagogues in New York City, has pled guilty, and now faces a sentence of 10 years in prison.

The US Senate approved a massive $631 billion defense bill authorizing new funds for weapons, air and sea craft, and pay raises for military officials.

"When Danny Ayalon was ambassador in Washington, he had a bad falling out with his boss then, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom."

Israel's National Archives has released a photograph of Golda Meir's chicken soup recipe.

After a night of protests threatening the presidential palace, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has returned home, despite national outrage over his attempts at constitutional reform.

"The vote at the UN yesterday is a great moment for us as citizens of the world," said the email.

IDF soldier Liraz Benvenisti, 20, on Tuesday evening left the base where he is serving, near the town of Gedera, and then disappeared. It...

Incredibly, the AP badgered the U.S. State Department spokesperson about the passport stamp change.

Congregation Adas Israel, the last of several orthodox synagogues that once served the Jews of Fall River, Massachusetts – will be handing the keys over to a new group of worshippers – congregants of The Word of Life Community Church.

A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators urged Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to crack down on arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.

A man and a woman in the Toulouse area were arrested on suspicion that they helped Mohammed Merah "commit crimes" that may have included the murder of four Jews.

A Woodmere synagogue which lost four Torah scrolls in the chaos of Hurricane Sandy received a gift given in the spirit of Jewish brotherhood and Torah values from their kinsmen in Kansas City.