Police on Sunday arrested a 54-year-old man dangerously riding an electric bicycle on the sidewalk of Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa. After questioning, the cyclist told police officers that he drank

Less than a year after becoming leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn is already facing calls for his ouster. The head of the UK’s second largest party has

After a week without leavened bread, some shoppers are anxious to head for the nearest bakery following the end of the Passover holiday. In recent years, crowds of impatient customers

Muslims are only allowed to acquire citizenship in non-Muslim countries in “life or death” situations, a Saudi scholar insisted last month – and even banned visiting the Western world. Saudi

Police have located the body of 40 year-old Jerusalem resident Ofir Gross in a local forest, they announced Sunday, one week after disappearing in Hungary.  The Foreign Ministry has stated that

Surveyors struck oil in Israel, with an oil deposit discovered near the Dead Sea. On Sunday the Hatrurim consortium, named for the Hatrurim formation in the Dead Sea area, announced

The Romanian government has instructed state universities to allow Jewish students to miss exams and classes on Shabbat and Jewish holidays, the European Jewish Association (EJA) announced Sunday, following concerted efforts

JTA – A reporter who wrote a critical profile of Melania Trump has been deluged with anti-Semitic abuse. Julia Ioffe told the Guardian that on April 28, the day her

President Reuven Rivlin should pardon El-Or Azariya, the soldier who controversially shot dead a neutralized terrorist, MK David Bitan (Likud) opined in a special Arutz Sheva interview Sunday.  Bitan is heading a petition to

The ongoing anti-Semitism scandal within Britain’s Labour Party has now reached news heights, with one of party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s closest aides – former London Mayor Ken Livingstone – suspended from

24 year-old Sapir Nissani has been identified as a journalist suspected of attempted matricide, it was cleared for publication Sunday. Nissani, a Kfar Saba resident, was arrested Thursday after her mother

Last week’s Jerusalem bus bombing carried out by member of Hamas shows the Islamist movement’s “determination” to continue resisting Israel, the head of the Palestinian group in Gaza said on Thursday. Addressing thousands

Israeli authorities arrested on Thursday two Palestinians who tried to stab IDF soldiers in Samaria, the army said, adding that one of them was shot and wounded. The suspects carrying knives approached

As the annual Eurovision Song Contest approaches, the Stockholm theater hosting the event has published the rules about waving flags, and enumerated several flags that will be forbidden. Flags with commercial messages,

JTA — A Dutch Christian organization is planning to sail a “replica” of Noah’s Ark to reach Brazil during the Summer Olympics and the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

JTA — Swastikas were spray-painted at a park and an elementary school in a Washington, D.C., suburb with a large Jewish population. The swastikas were discovered Sunday in Rockville, Maryland,

As Passover and Shabbat end tonight, people across Israel are celebrating Mimouna. Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) is taking part in the festival at the Dahan home in Yavne,

(JTA) — Polish clergy and researchers will hold a seminar in Kielce about a historically significant pogrom in which locals killed Holocaust survivors in that city 70 years ago. Occurring

On Thursday, police in Italy released arrest warrants for six people for planning to join ISIS, Reuters reports. Three of the suspects reportedly wanted to carry out attacks on the Israeli

Two Bedouin students from the village of Rahat were released on Saturday night, after they had been kidnapped in Turkey. Reshet Bet reports that their families were asked to pay ransom for

(JTA) — Nearly 500 people attended the first Jewish film festival of Casablanca, which was organized in the Moroccan city by a Sephardic Jewish woman from Atlanta. The three-day event,

Jerusalem on Thursday responded to the looming French peace initiative, which is to involve an international effort forcing peace talks on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). As part of the

The Kinneret Authority reported that since the beginning of the Passover holiday, approximately 500,000 tourists visited the beaches of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).   With that, nearly 300 tons

An horrific children’s play in which a seven-year-old Palestinian girl “stabbed Jews” took place at a recent event partly funded by Interpal, a UK charity supported by Labour party head Jeremy Corbyn

Doctors Without Borders condemned Thursday the “outrageous” air strike on a hospital it was supporting in the war-torn northern Syrian city of Aleppo, where doctors were among those killed. Local rescue workers said the overnight

North Korea fired a medium range missile in a test on Thursday that failed spectacularly, marking the second such failure in two weeks during tests of the Musudan missile. A South

Johannesburg’s Randburg Magistrates Court ruled on Thursday that Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is wanted in Israel on suspicions of multiple cases of sexual assault, will remain in prison until a decision regarding

(JTA) I was feeling nervous about coming to Brussels for seder with my family. Making the 130-mile trip there from my home in Amsterdam meant taking my 5-month-old son on

(JTA) A civil trial focused on control of the $500 million Koret Foundation is pitting its founder’s widow, Susan Koret, against its former president and current board member, Tad Taube.

After a heat wave hit Israel during Chol HaMoed (the Intermediate Days of Passover), the weather is expected to cool down, especially for cities in the mountainous regions. Tonight, as the