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Security forces are checking the source of three loud explosion that were heard throughout the entire city of Eilat. Initial reports now say that 2...

July 4 is not only US Independence Day. It also is the anniversary of Operation Entebbe. An Israeli firm this week won a contract to return to Entebbe, ironically to upgrade its systems and security.

An Egyptian wrestler who bit her Israeli opponent during competition was suspended by wrestling’s international body. Enas Moustafa Youssef Khourshid  was “immediately suspended” by the...

Machon Menachem-Boca Raton Rabbinical College ordained fourteen rabbis at a graduation ceremony held at Chabad of Boca Raton on Military Trail, Thursday, May 30.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is at it again, forecasting for the 16th time this year that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will...

Swift NY cops jump on a young Jewish woman for an immodest frisk. Her crime? Maybe she was picking up drugs? Or running away from a robbery? No. She was petting a cat – and she is suing the police.

A painting by Italian Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani sold at auction in Jerusalem for $8.6 million, despite not actually being in the country. It is...

Even Peter Beinart would not have appreciated the latest German anti-Zionist slur, based on the Moloch, the practice of child sacrifice by idol worshippers and used as libel against Jews as child-killers.

A tree fell outside a dining hall at a Jewish summer camp in Northern California, killing one staffer and requiring four others to be...

The curious case brings to light a real problem in Sweden caused by the reluctance of doctors and nurses to assist in or perform circumcisions.

The utter glee with which London's political leadership boast about their city being a mega-hub for Islamic finance would have been derided as racist parody had Melanie Phillips written it in her prescient book, "Londonistan."

We know that most Haredim in Israel don’t even know the Zionist anthem let alone sing it. But also America? It seems that way at the annual Flatbush Hatzolah-NYPD game. Anyway, ‘Good July 4 Yom Tov.’

A Bialystok court has asked the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to rule on whether the country’s ban on ritual slaughter is compliant with the constitutional...

Tragedy strikes twice at Jewish summer camps. One week after lightning critically injured a child in an Indiana camp, a falling tree kills one adult and injures 20 in California.

Military suspends constitution, install caretaker government; Egyptian army deployed.

The US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki could not confirm if a military coup is currently underway in Egypt .

Mixing Western democracy with Egyptian Islamists is a recipe with a smell of civil war. Reason and logic are under house arrest. If the army takes over, it can thank the US for training it soldiers.

The strike at the Foreign Ministry and its consulates worldwide has left hundreds people stranded, including several from South Florida. “All I really need is...

Samsung acquired the Israeli streaming media startup Boxee for $30 million. The Israeli business site The Marker reported the acquisition by the Korean electronics giant...

Archaeologists don’t have to go back too far to understand this discovery – a Russian-made tank. The question remains why it was discarded and buried underground until excavations for a drainage system unearthed it.

The Israeli and Egyptian armies and the Hamas regime in Gaza are on high alert at Sinai and Gaza borders and near smuggling tunnels,...

Newly declassified documents have reignited the debate over whether a chance to avoid the 1973 Yom Kippur War was squandered.

JERUSALEM – Even as Secretary of State John Kerry tried to put a positive spin on his arduous negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, high-ranking Israeli government officials and Israeli media outlets said that the growing chaos in Egypt and the continuing Syrian civil war, along with Abbas’s intransigence, were undermining the chances for a resumption of talks in the coming months.

Mobs protesting the rule of Mohammed Morsi have sexually assaulted nearly 100 women and raped at least 91  in the last four days of...

JERUSALEM – The large white poster is topped by a screaming headline written in large black letters: “Hell.” Posted on a wall in Jerusalem’s haredi Meah Shearim neighborhood, the sign describes a development that threatens the community with “extinction” and “makes all living hearts tremble.”

A U.S. Jewish doctor in Ethiopia came across a boy whose life is threatened after an attack by a wild hyena. Muslims, Bedouin and Jews now are pitching in to save his life.

The US created a Palestinian Authority army and still trains “policemen.” One of its cadets was killed in a riot against the IDF Tuesday. Now, an officer has been arrested for trying to murder a Jew.

Clashes escalated near Cairo University in the capital's Giza district late Tuesday night, where supporters of President Mohamed Morsi continue to demonstrate. According to the...

Private Jewish day schools and yeshivas get hundreds of millions of dollars through tax credit programs.

A federation north of Boston merged with Greater Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies in an effort to bring financial stability and expanded programs to the...