London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, on Sunday paid respect to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public engagement in office, The Associated Press

North Korea’s first ruling party congress for nearly 40 years formally adopted leader Kim Jong-Un’s policy of developing the country’s nuclear arsenal in tandem with the economy, AFP reports. The

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not think it’s necessary for the Republican party to be unified behind his presumptive nomination, he told ABC News on Sunday. “We wanna bring

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Mexican congressman reportedly was captured on tape calling the head of the country’s Jewish umbrella organization “a f—ing Jew.” The slur by Jorge Romero

Britain’s treasury chief, George Osborne, on Sunday said he expects the United States’ next president to be a woman, while describing Republican candidate Donald Trump as “odd”. Speaking to British

Ben Rhodes, one of President Barack Obama’s top advisers, has admitted that the dealings behind the agreement struck between Iran and world powers last summer were not exactly as presented

(JTA) — Jewish groups in Canada’s Alberta province have joined the efforts to support victims of the wildfires that have been raging in the area for a week and forced

(JTA) If there’s one story that sums up the changes afoot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a once heavily Jewish neighborhood, it’s the saga surrounding the Anshei Meseritz

Hanan Ben-Ari, a religious star whose debut album recently released to great critical acclaim, explained the connection between his stirring song “Melody of the Souls” and the upcoming Israeli Memorial Day

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with the participants of the Bible Quiz on Sunday, held traditionally on Israel’s Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut).  Also present were Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), Jewish Agency

An indictment was submitted on Sunday against Mordechai Vanunu, the spy who leaked secrets on Israel’s nuclear weapons program in Dimona back in the 1980s to British media, charging him with severe

Dozens of Israeli Arabs marched from Haifa in the direction of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday, as an alleged expression of public support for Jordan’s iron-fist rule of Judaism’s holiest

Irony doesn’t get much more in your face than fans of a wheelchair basketball match beating each other up with lethal weapons until seven of them are hospitalized – and

Hamas, which advocates jihad to destroy the State of Israel and calls to boycott the Jewish state, demanded a greater supply of electricity from Israel to Gaza on Sunday.  Hamas

(JTA) This year I will mark two of Israel’s most important national holidays – Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) and Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) – far away from home. These are

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the international coalition battling the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria of leaving his country to fight the jihadists alone on its

Dennis Ross, who served as President Barack Obama’s Middle East adviser from 2009 to 2011, published an op-ed on the Politico website on Sunday, in which he said that Israel

Martin Luther King III, the son of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. and President of the Drum Major Institute, held a special ceremony Sunday to honor Ethiopian-Israeli community activists.  King

In response to the revelations of the leaked state comptroller’s report on 2014 Operation Protective Edge, former IDF Southern Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Yom-Tov Samia criticized the state for having

The IDF’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Gen. Yair Golan, unleashed a “terror attack” on the Jewish people when he controversially began comparing modern-day Israel to Nazi Germany, a prominent journalist

Sarit Okun, doctorate student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s communications department, has exposed the mysterious world of haredi internet culture. Many haredi Jews have long approached the internet with

Health Minister Ya’akov Litzmann (United Torah Judaism) declared war on licorice candy Sunday, noting that the candy often is filled with white gelatin and coated in

A number of Jerusalem community rabbis have signed a protest letter against the creation of a cultural center for haredim in the capital. The planned center would involve channeling public funds

Activists from the haredi “Jerusalem Faction” clashed last week with police during a protest against the arrest of a “yeshiva student” earlier that week. Just a day later however, it

Rabbi Yonatan Abraham, the head of London’s rabbinic court and Vice President of the European Jewish Congress, responded on Saturday night to news that Labour UK candidate Sadiq Khan had

Crippling protests by “Palestinian refugees” in Lebanon last week over a change in UNRWA perks and benefits appears to be spreading, as this week “refugees” in Judea and Samaria are launching

Har Herzl military cemetery held the Flags for the Fallen ceremony Sunday, in a tradition preceding Memorial Day wherein the IDF places Israeli flags on the graves of fallen soldiers.  The

The Federal Court of Canada validated the decision of the Immigration Division (ID) of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada which denied a Palestinian man refugee status in Canada