A coalition of countries battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq pledged Wednesday to pour more resources into the fight, after coming under strong pressure from Washington for greater contributions. The promise came after
Former Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beytenu head MK Avigdor Liberman on Wednesday morning criticized his former ally Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding that he resign. Liberman’s demand comes after the
A Channel 2 report on Tuesday night revealed the IDF has partially withdrawn from Area A in Judea and Samaria, in a reduction in security coordination that may have helped cause Tuesday evening’s terror attack
An IDF force conducting operational activity adjacent to the security fence in southern Gaza came under mortar fire from terrorists in the Hamas-run enclave on Wednesday morning. Fortunately no soldiers
Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (res.) Benny Gantz said on Tuesday ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day that the Jewish people’s victory over the Nazis is measured by, among other
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Efraim Mirvis has weighed in on the growing anti-Semitism scandal within the UK Labour Party, in a stinging oped on Jew-hatred emanating from the far-left. In his
A new book reveals that back in 2009, during Hillary Clinton’s first visit to Israel as US Secretary of State which came around a month after Israeli general elections, she
New research published on Wednesday reveals that over the course of 2015 violent anti-Semitic attacks against Jews decreased under increased security, but at the same time there was a serious rise in
Economic concerns and the desire for a sense of purpose and revenge are the major factors pushing young Syrians into the arms of Islamist jihadist groups, a study released on Wednesday found. The report by
The father of one of the three IDF soldiers who was wounded on Tuesday evening in a car ramming attack by an Arab terrorist criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on
Finance records for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign reveal that it made several payments to a Nevada-based company that specializes in destroying hard drives and documents. The payments, revealed by Washington Free Beacon on
Instead of allowing Israelis to fly on its planes, Kuwait’s national airline – Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) – has halted all its inter-European routes, effective immediately. The Lawfare Project announced
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is one step closer to clinching the nomination as he is projected to win the Indiana primary, reports The Hill. Trump’s victory will guarantee him
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Syria’s frontline city of Aleppo, where fighting threatens to unravel international peace efforts. France
NEW YORK (JTA) — Enrollment in New York State’s Jewish day schools and yeshivas increased by 4.4 percent last year. According to data compiled by the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is quitting the race following his latest defeat to Donald Trump in Indiana, Politico reported Tuesday night, citing Cruz’s campaign manager Jeff Roe. Cruz later
The British Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn, suffered another embarrassment on Tuesday, after Corbyn was praised by the Hamas terrorist group for refusing to condemn both it and
A Brussels court on Tuesday handed jail terms of up to seven years to 26 members of a group that recruited fighters for Syria and had included one of the
(JTA) — A 13-year-old boy who allegedly drew a swastika on a Boston-area school football field will not face criminal charges. The teen, an eighth-grader at the Georgetown Middle/High School,
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Tuesday there would be “repercussions” if his regime flouts a new ceasefire being negotiated with Moscow for the battered
The man helping to lead the British Labour party’s inquiry into anti-Semitism is a named supporter of a group which has dismissed allegations of Jew-hatred in the party as “baseless
(JTA) – The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor, Michigan, was evacuated after an unknown person called in a bomb threat. The unidentified caller on Monday morning said a
(JTA) – A long-thought lost model used by grateful Jewish workers to create a gold ring for Oskar Schindler has been donated to the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre, where it
(JTA) – Prominent scholars of Jewish demography dismissed the findings of a newly published genetic study suggesting that today’s Ashkenazi Jews originate from converts to Judaism in what today is
(JTA) – Italy’s national Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, or MEIS, under fitful development in the northeast city of Ferrara for more than a decade, has received a
The ISIS terrorist group regularly produces slick propaganda videos glorifying its so-called Islamic State or Caliphate, often featuring battle scenes portraying their fighters as courageous and near-invincible. The reality, however,
President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Dr. Moshe Kantor met with Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in Stockholm Tuesday, where they discussed many issues of shared concern, including the
The IDF recently reduced its activities in the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority’s security (“Area A”), Channel 10 reports Tuesday night. The reduction in security coordination may have helped cause Tuesday
(JTA) – When documentary photographer Richard Schofield stumbled upon a trove of unidentified prewar photographs in September 2013 in the storage room of the Sugihara House museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, he knew
On Tuesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Sara Netanyahu met with the six Holocaust survivors who will light the torches at the start of the state ceremony at Yad Vashem Wednesday. This