The Palestinian Authority (PA) has notified Israel that it intends to begin issuing passports which bear the inscription “State of Palestine”, Army Radio reported on Wednesday. Currently, passports issued to

The IDF will place large concrete blocks on sidewalks and roads throughout Judea and Samaria, it announced Wednesday night, following an analysis of the current terror wave. The blocks will

A revelation in the ongoing corruption case against Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) – the investigation has now been expanded to include the minister’s brother, Shlomo Deri. According to a

Following remarks by The National Secular Society’s Executive Director on LBC Radio last week about government’s attempts to close Jewish faith schools, leading UK haredi community figure Rabbi Avrohom Pinter

(JTA)  “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” is far more than a Jewish Horatio Alger story. It is that, of course — the film documents the story of an immigrant

Russia on Wednesday pushed for measures at the United Nations to monitor extremist groups fighting in Syria, warning of a “clear and present threat” that they could stage chemical attacks,

JTA –  Like many before him, Asaf Galay will never forget the first time he heard Bob Dylan. It was right around the time of his bar mitzvah and Galay,

Jewish-British playwright Arnold Wesker, a member of the “Angry Young Men” movement of the 1950s which pushed for more social theatre about working-class lives, has died aged 83, his family

Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, the rabbi of Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills in Queens, NY, and a member of both the Queens Rabbinical Council and the Rabbinical Council of America, gave a

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (JTA) — Like many Ukrainian mayors, Vlodymir Groysman used to visit his local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and Hanukkah. But unlike most of them Groysman, the former mayor

A group of IDF soldiers burned a Palestinian Authority (PA) flag at the Awarta checkpoint, near the Huwarra military base, on Wednesday, causing an uproar. Palestinian Arab witnesses have submitted a

Spanish police said Wednesday they had detained a French national suspected of heading a weapons trafficking ring that provided arms to Amedy Coulibaly, who staged a deadly attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris last

Israel is exporting $48.5 million in matzah and wine to Jewish communities across the globe, the Economy and Industry Ministry revealed Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday.  The US imports

The terror wave may be slowing down, but IDF officials fear it may be the quiet before the storm, anticipating a spike in attacks during the Pesach holiday season and

With the recent “wave of terror” in Israel beginning, by all accounts, to wind down, much of the media’s attention has already begun to shift away, onto the next story. But

The government may be in the hands of Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri – so says Professor Avi Diskin, head of the School of Management, Governance and Law at the

The Passover holiday brings with it a sense of cultural pride and an opportunity to rejoice with family. During this annual celebration, the Jewish nation unites to commemorate liberation from

Israel’s police department welcomed its first Muslim Deputy Commissioner, Jamal Hachrush, in a ceremony on Wednesday. A native of the village of Kfar Kana, Hachrush has served in the Israeli

The current terror wave is national-religious magazine Mekor Rishon‘s fault, journalist Reno Tzror claimed Wednesday.  ”This ‘Intifada of the few’ with knives and scissors – which is fading away these days, at least to

A poll carried out by the Ruderman Family Foundation has found that only 6% of Israelis see Ted Cruz as the most pro-Israel candidate in the 2016 presidential race. About

IDF Civil Administration forces accompanied by police officers arrived at Beit El in the Binyamin region of Samaria in the middle of the night on Tuesday night, where they demolished

The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) recently broke the news that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had hired an avowed anti-Zionist as his national Jewish outreach director. Simone Zimmerman is a supporter

Hundreds of college students gathered across North America and Israel Saturday to conclude Shabbat with #SolidarityHavdalah, a campaign to show unity with their European peers facing anti-Semitism. The students came

Three top members of Congress petitioned Iran to let them enter the country and inspect nuclear sites to ensure compliance with the nuclear deal, ahead of a speech by a

India’s approximately 5,000-member Jewish community is renewing its request for official government recognition as a minority group, submitting an application to the country’s minority affairs ministry. Official recognition would make

A Tel Aviv high school principal will no longer send pupils on an annual educational trip to former concentration camps in Poland because of its perceived “ultranationalist” influence on the

Panic ensued in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning as an Egged bus caught fire, causing all passengers to be evacuated. The bus lit up while driving along Harozmarin Street, located in

A number of UK Labour Party activists are pushing to change party rules to make it easier to ban anti-Semites from the party, which has been battered by a series of