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While former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been making the rounds putting down the achievements of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prosecution in Olmert's...

Indian Chief of Air Staff Norman Anil Kumar Browne is in Israel for talks with the highest ranking Israeli military officials as ties deepen between the two countries’ defense establishments.

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Leaders of Russia’s Jewish community have criticized a U.S. federal court ruling that fined Russia for refusing to hand over ancient Chasidic texts.

A lawmaker from Hungary’s Jobbik Party who recently called for listing Jews as a “security risk” reportedly is planning a lecture tour about the “Zionist threat.”

A history of New York Jewry took Jewish book of the year honors in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards.

The American Red Cross' first-aid procedure still recommends five back slaps and then five abdominal thrusts to deal with choking.

Little Rebecca told the assembled congregation that “the suffering of others should not be forgotten.”

Facebook allows Hamas leaders and other known terrorists to maintain pages.

The more than 60,000 deaths during the Syrian Civil War, are referred to in UN-speak as "the events in Syria since March, 2011," or, sometimes, as "the current events."

ABC's Barbara Walters fell during an inauguration party in Washington and has been hospitalized, AP reported. Walters, 83, fell on Saturday night at the residence...

Rubinstein made clear that candidate lists running for election may not trifle with injunctions issued by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission.

Ron Nachman, the Mayor of the Samarian city of Ariel, passed away after losing his battle to bladder cancer.

The United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) on Saturday denounced fighters in Syria for endangering children in the bloody civil war which has gripped the country for almost two years.

Politics junkies and sports fans alike will enjoy the new up-to-the-minute poll updates being made available for this Tuesday’s Knesset elections.

Shas party spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef is urging Israelis not to vote for the party headed by Naftali Bennett, the Bayit HaYehudi Jewish Home party, calling it not a home for Jews but a home for gentiles.

"My engagement in medicine has taught me that in order to heal one must come in contact with the most repulsive things you can imagine."

Livson, 30, the Israeli-born son of Finnish immigrants, was officially installed as chief rabbi on Jan. 13, taking over from Rabbi Moshe Edelman.

Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.

Will the dome come down after seven Jeremy Gimpel videos are exposed?

At the Oz Etzion (Jewish) outpost in the Binyamin region, a large number of troops arrived on Saturday night to expel the residents and...

The gist of his words is not the removal of the mosque as much as the building of the Temple.

On Saturday, Palestinians tried to set up another illegal outpost. This latest attempt was in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Maskiot. Border Police...

President Obama's new gun control proposals drew broad Jewish communal support. The uniformity of the Jewish response to the proposals unveiled Wednesday stood in contrast...

The Anti-Defamation League said disgraced designer John Galliano has changed his beliefs and now understands the evils of anti-Semitism. Galliano, who lost his job as...

Two Brooklyn neighborhoods account for a majority of the ten percent increase in overall Jewish population growth in greater New York City over the...

One of Pauline's most famous quotes was: "It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."

On Friday, shots were fired twice on Kibbutz Migdal Oz from the nearby Arabs village of Beit Fajr. No one was injured in the attack.

France’s military involvement in Mali “significantly increases” the threat facing French Jews, according to the security service of the country’s Jewish communities . “The situation...

Rhetoric aside, real data can answer the question as to who built the most in the Settlements.