(JTA) When Yoel decided, at age 8, to begin observing Shabbat, there was one problem: It meant he couldn’t join most of Israel’s youth soccer teams, which played games on

Several government advisers, secretaries, and assistants owe their jobs to Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, one report revealed Tuesday – as he slowly has woven a web of contacts

An official inquiry by the UK Labour Party into allegations of institutional anti-Semitism within the party’s student club at the prestigious Oxford University has submitted its initial findings – and is

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently offered Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman the Defense Minister position, Channel 10 reports Tuesday, if his party joined the coalition.  Nertanyahu also offered Liberman a commitment to

Gaza Belt community residents received evacuation instructions Tuesday, Channel 2 reports, in light of increasing tensions with Hamas along the border.  Emergency crews associated with the Defense Ministry authored a message to residents

The Yad L’Achim anti-missionary organization safely extricated a Jewish mother and three children from an Arab village last week, after a 15-year ordeal.  The woman, referred to as ‘A.,’ married

The United States Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, The Hill reported. The upper chamber approved

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on Israeli leaders to work towards achieving a settlement with the Palestinian Arabs Tuesday. “After signing the peace accords, no one thought that true and

The Hezbollah terrorist group has already announced a replacement for leading military commander Mustafa Badreddine, just days after he was assassinated in unclear circumstances in Damascus. According to the Saudi Arabian Asharq

An army colonel and diplomat from El Salvador who helped save tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II by providing them with false Salvadoran identity

Thousands of missionary leaflets were recently distributed to mailboxes across Petah Tikva, the Yad L’Achim anti-missionary organization noted Tuesday – and it warned residents to be vigilant against the attempts to lure

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to the President of Egypt’s call for a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority earlier Tuesday. “I welcome Egyptian President El-Sisi’s remarks and his

Welfare and Social Services Minister Haim Katz was questioned by the Israel Securities Authority under an official warning, over suspicions he illegally used internal government information to engage in illegal

Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne is currently in Israel on a five-day trade mission together 130 government officials, academics, scientists and business leaders, as well as representatives of BlackBerry, IBM

At least 50 fighters and two civilians were killed Tuesday in clashes between rival anti-regime groups east of Syria’s capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The powerful Jaish

A  bus driver attempted to close the bus doors on a haredi woman and her baby to “help her die,” in a shocking incident reported by haredi radio station Kol Hai this

Despite last year’s Iran nuclear deal and the removal of most US sanctions on the rogue nation, the state of Texas has not only refused to end its own state

Israel continues to return the bodies of terrorists killed during attacks, including terrorists who resided inside of Israel. The bodies of two terrorists – including a female terrorist – were

At first blush, Lars Adaktusson hardly seems like a likely Israel supporter. A former journalist and Swedish politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament, Adaktusson’s curriculum vitae make

Dan Moisand CFP explains how interest rates affect retirement planning. He also discusses the best way to withdraw money from retirement plans (including IRAs) without incurring any penalties, and the circumstances

A planned Middle East peace summit hosted by the French government has US Secretary of State John Kerry in a bind, pitting the Obama administration’s hopes that the meeting will

Two illegal Arab houses built in the Jerusalem Walls National Park in 2002 were demolished on Tuesday morning by the Israel Parks Authority and Jerusalem district police. The park is

A truck carrying chemicals for industrial use dumped what appears to be a potent disinfectant used in the poultry industry onto the streets of a northern Jerusalem neighborhood on Tuesday.

Former Republican presidential candidate John Kasich on Monday ruled out the possibility that he would run for the White House in a third party bid. “I’m not gonna do that,”

British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury on Monday apologized for an anti-Semitic rant he posted online last week. Fury, 27, wrote last week, “Everyone just do what you can, listen to

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Smithsonian Institution and the Hebrew University are marking the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity by launching an initiative to make science more accessible

The classified details behind Iran’s treatment of several American sailors who were captured by the country in January are likely to shock the nation, Rep. Randy Forbes, a member of

The head of the Institute for National Security Studies, Amos Yadlin, on Monday expressed support for Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s call on IDF officers to publicly express their views, which

Powerful blasts rocked a key gas field in central Syria on Monday, with a monitor saying they were caused by the Islamic State (ISIS) group blowing up pumping stations. The