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Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu has secretly issued a stern warning to Hamas that if its rocket campaign continues once he's in power, he will...

For months Hamas has been in direct contact with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister and Mideast envoy for the international Quartet, according...

JERUSALEM - If the polls are right, the outcome of next Tuesday's Israeli election is a foregone conclusion.

An official document being negotiated by the U.S., Israel, Egypt, the EU and other players currently grants Hamas a role in patrolling Gaza Strip's...

A prominent Manhattan rabbi is defending his decision to participate in last week's National Prayer Service.

A prominent Manhattan rabbi is defending his decision to participate in last week's National Prayer Service.

Once upon a time, organic produce and processed foods were found only in health food stores.

Despite three weeks of intense Israeli bombardment, Hamas's military capabilities inside the Gaza Strip are still largely intact, top Hamas leaders claimed. "We admit...

JERUSALEM - With a cease-fire in place, Israelis are asking whether the 22-day war against Hamas in Gaza achieved its aims.

Hospitals in New York City, as well as hospitals in other major markets, are dealing with an increased demand for kosher food by patients, their families, visitors and staff.

JERUSALEM - With Israel's war in Gaza in its third week, it's clear the outcome could have far-reaching regional implications.

The Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist organization is considering complicating Israel's conflict with Hamas by launching an attack from the Jewish state's northern border, according to...

JERUSALEM - In the second week of the war in Gaza, with Israeli ground troops intensifying their actions against Hamas militants, diplomatic efforts to end the fighting gathered pace.

When Rabbi Chaim Glazer, an 11th grade rebbi at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in North Miami Beach, Florida, was teaching his class about Kil'ei Ilanos (the issur of grafting two trees of different species together) his lesson plan research led him to a STAR-K Kashrus Kurrents article on hydroponics - the cultivation of plants in a nutrient solution rather than in soil.

U.S. and international news media are falsely portraying an Israeli air strike against a Hamas-run university in the Gaza Strip. They are reporting that...

JERUSALEM - Israel's retaliation against persistent Hamas mortar and rocket attacks on civilians in southern Israel has been far more ferocious than anyone, including Hamas, expected.

  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's attempts to negotiate with Syria collapsed this past week when Israel received a private message from Damascus that the Jewish...

MOSCOW - The Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is the latest in a string of financial blows to Jewish aid programs in the former Soviet Union, wiping out a major foundation that was the primary funder of Jewish higher education in Russia.

  Hamas is willing to renew an expiring six-month truce with Israel but is delaying in hopes of extracting more concessions from the Jewish state,...

The securities fraud of Bernard Madoff has rocked the Jewish nonprofit world - and the worst may be yet to come.

The securities fraud of Bernard Madoff has rocked the Jewish nonprofit world - and the worst may be yet to come.

President-elect Barack Obama is considering appointing his top Mideast adviser, Daniel Kurtzer, as U.S. envoy to the Middle East, a senior Israeli diplomatic source...

I have received numerous inquiries asking me to revisit my freezer tricks.

    Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, killed in last week's coordinated terrorist raids in India, was so fearful his Chabad center would be attacked he forbade media...

KFAR CHABAD, Israel - Rabbis wept, women wailed and Chabad faithful called for avenging the tragedy in Mumbai with holiness and love as thousands gathered here Tuesday for the funerals of the two Chabad emissaries killed in last week's Mumbai terrorist attacks.

KFAR CHABAD, Israel - Rabbis wept, women wailed and Chabad faithful called for avenging the tragedy in Mumbai with holiness and love as thousands gathered here Tuesday for the funerals of the two Chabad emissaries killed in last week's Mumbai terrorist attacks.

  President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed himself "very impressed" with the Arab League's peace initiative, which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in...

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's "team of rivals" is turning into a collection well known to the Jewish community, which should comfort those who expressed apprehension about the president-elect's possible Cabinet choices.

Representatives of President-elect Barack Obama recently told Syrian officials in meetings that Obama supports ending their county's isolation and that as president he would...

JERUSALEM - In a normal year, an address by the Israeli prime minster would be treated as the centerpiece of a gathering of American Jews, especially one being held in Jerusalem.