Pew Research Study: Jews Are World’s Most Educated Religious Group

A new study says the Jewish people are the most educated religious group in the world.

First Cousins Reunite at Yad Vashem for the First Time

After three-quarters of a century, a phone call changed the lives of two people who thought they were alone in the world.

Joint Azeri-Israeli Presidential Fund Supports Local Jewish Education

PM Netanyahu revealed in a speech in Baku that Israel jointly funds Jewish education with the president of Azerbaijan, and his predecessor.

Miraculous Family Reunion to Take Place at Yad Vashem

Neither side of the family knew anyone from the other side had survived the Holocaust!

Minister Regev Presents 67 CE ‘Great Rebellion’ Coin at Cabinet Meeting

The coin bears on one side a vine leaf and the statement 'Freedom of Zion.' On the opposite side it bears a standing cup and the statement 'Second year of the great rebellion' – the year 67 CE.

Terror Attack Foiled at Cave of Patriarchs in Hebron

An intelligence tip led to the capture of a 22-year-old terror suspect planning a deadly stabbing attack.

Do you know a Jew? No?! Rent one!

There are 250,000 Jews in Germany, but few Germans know a Jew personally, according to Rent-a Jew.

Confirmed: US Airstrike Kills ISIS Terrorist Behind Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher Massacres

A US official confirms the ISIS terrorist behind the Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher attacks, is dead.

Chief Rabbinate to List Rabbis Approved for Conversions Abroad

According to the chief rabbis, the plan is to create a system whereby the conversions done by rabbis who meet the chief rabbinate criteria would be approved.

Remembering Ezra Schwartz, hy’d, By Creating a Garden at Oz veGaon

Sometimes the best way to honor and hold the memory of a departed soul is through building or planting new life. And so it was at Oz veGaon.

UK Neo-Nazi Found Guilty in Anti-Semitism Trial

UK self-described fascist Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted for anti-Semitic internet rants against a Jewish MP. He's already serving time on other charges.

Rabbi Adin Even Yisrael Steinsaltz Hospitalized in Jerusalem

One of the most beloved rabbis worldwide is recovering at a Jerusalem hospital after a catherization for a cranial blood clot.

Amsterdam Police Foil Jihadist Attack on Synagogue While Dutch Lawmakers Hope to Reduce Security...

Amsterdam police and the counterterror unit uncovered a jihadist plot to attack a synagogue and arrested the wannabe terrorists.

Israeli Chasidic Rebbe Permits Use of Filtered Internet, Smartphones

In the Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe's opinion, a draconian, sweeping prohibition on electronic communications creates a situation where many break the law in secret and are exposed to dangerous content.

Diapora Yeshiva T’shuva Movement Pioneer Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein Dead at 82

Unlike traditional Orthodox academies, Rabbi Goldstein's Diaspora Yeshiva appealed to students who identified with the nonconformist beatnik and hippie subcultures, adopting a neo-Chasidic approach.

Ancient Inscription Identifies Gargilius Antiques as Roman Ruler on Eve of Bar Kochva Revolt

'For the first time, we can state with certainty the name of the Roman prefect of Judea during the critical period leading up to the Bar Kochva revolt.'

Breaking the Silence: Teaching Hebron’s Real Jewish History to Young Israelis

If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.

Israel Marks the Partition Vote That Led to Rebirth of the Jewish State

The historic partition vote that led to the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel would have also created another Arab state.

Torah Scroll Torched in Jerusalem’s Har Nof Neighborhood

Firefighters called overnight to a mostly hareidi-religious neighborhood in Jerusalem found a burnt Torah scroll.

Time to Come Home: South Dakota Chabad Center Completes 50-State Outreach

According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.

25,000 Pray in Hebron on ‘Shabbat Chayei Sarah’

Prayers by thousands of Jews at the Cave of the Patriarchs were peaceful, heartfelt and filled with hope.

Rabbi Eliyahu Permits Desecrating Shabbat to Shoot Arab #PyroTerrorists

The Rabbi said, if in Beit Meir, Carmiel, or Haifa they had shot the arsonists we would have been spared this catastrophe.

Netanyahu Nixes MKs Return to Temple Mount

PM Netanyahu says this is not the time to allow MKs and ministers to return to the Temple Mount.

Appointment of IDF Chief Rabbi Delayed by Court

The rabbi's appointment as IDF chief rabbi is being held up by secularists angry at remarks he says they misunderstood.

R’ Ben Zion Shenker, z’l, The Monarch of Jewish Music Passes

The music of Modzitz will live on forever thanks to the eternal soul of Reb Ben Zion Shenker, z'l.

Greenblatt Headed Obama Admin Agency, Soros-Funded Initiative Before ADL

ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt accused of politicizing his organization's principles.

ADL’s Greenblatt Steps Back on Bannon Accusations, Says Anti-Semitism Spiking in America

The ADL is sounding the alarm on all channels: Anti-Semitism is spiking in America.

Jewish Writer Says Trump’s Appointee, Bannon ‘Doesn’t Have An Anti-Semitic Bone in His Body’

Controversial Trump appointee Steve Bannon is not an anti-Semite, according to those who work with him.

Israel’s Rabbinate Avoids Western Wall Event

Israel's Rabbinate is caught in a pool of political quicksand over the issue of plurality at the Western Wall.

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