A hundred members of Iraq’s parliament held a sit-in on Wednesday, demanding that the volatile country’s president, prime minister and parliamentary speaker all be removed. The parliamentary sit-in comes after

The public reenactment of the Passover Sacrifice, which has become a popular spring-time event over the past few years, will be getting closer to the actual site of the Temple

The Islamic State (ISIS) group’s ranks have been pared back by international and local military action in Iraq and Syria to their lowest level since Washington began monitoring the group,

The United States on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to peacekeeping efforts in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the White House said, amid reports that the Pentagon has is planning to cut the

The United States military is dropping “cyber bombs” on the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group for the first time as part of a stepped-up coordinated effort that has put increasing

(JTA) — A Nazi-looted painting by the Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani is being sequestered in Geneva after its ownership was revealed in the Panama Papers. The ownership of the 1918

A day after cutting the funding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian Authority (PA) has done the same to the Democratic Front for the

(JTA) — Hillel International will launch operations in Poland, the organization serving Jewish college students announced. The opening of Hillel Warsaw is scheduled for April 18, on the eve of

Iran and Italy signed a series of bilateral agreements during a visit by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to Tehran on Tuesday, signaling both countries’ desire to restore ties following

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told The Jewish Week in an interview on Tuesday that “it is unfair to put the onus on Israel” for the lack of progress on

A Boulder man accused of sending letters containing a suspicious white powder to two Jewish organizations in the Colorado city pleaded guilty. Jeffery Thomas Klinkel, 34, pleaded guilty late last

The Abayudaya community of Uganda is one step closer to being recognized as Jewish by the Israeli government. The community are not Jewish according to Halakha (Jewish law), as they converted

Anti-Semitism is “repulsive,” former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband stated Tuesday, amid an ongoing controversy surrounding rampant hatred of Jews in the country’s Labour party.  “It should not be the

The Pentagon has confirmed reports it plans to cut the number of US peacekeeping troops in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the growing threat from the Islamic State group, an

(JTA) – Jewish voters are all over the map when it comes to their plans for voting in New York’s presidential primary on April 19. Except for New Square, the all-Hasidic

As the ‘Great Shabbat’ preceding Passover arrives this week, the nation of Israel is busily preparing for the glorious festival of Pesach,  marking the redemption of Israel from Egypt and

Israel should attempt to make a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority (PA), Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz stated Tuesday night, or else it will remain “stuck.”  “Even

The massive influx of refugees into European Union countries and the resulting problems can have very problematic consequences for European Jews. As far as Israel is concerned it opens up

Twelve members of a France-based jihadist network that sent fighters to Syria were given prison sentences on Tuesday, including a woman who had taken her three children to join her

(JTA) — Twelve members of the New York City Council’s 14-member Jewish caucus have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The City Council members signed a joint statement on Tuesday, Jewish

Belgian prosecutors have charged two more men involved in last month’s Brussels bombings Tuesday, of participating in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder as perpetrators,

National Security Council (NSC) Counter-Terrorism Bureau, has issued updated travel guidelines for Israeli citizens during the upcoming Passover holidays. The guidelines extend from Passover to the festival of Shavuot 50 days

MK Shuli Muallem-Refaeli (Jewish Home) made adamantly clear that Judea and Samaria are part of Israel Tuesday, during a meeting with German ambassador Dr. Clemens von Goetze. “The State of Israel

A senior official in Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has been killed in an apparent targeted assassination in Sidon, south Lebanon. General Fathi Zaydan was responsible for running the Palestinian camp

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon will not be leaving Likud despite threats and incitement against him, he stated to the press Tuesday evening.  “There are among us kippah-wearers [i.e. national-religious Jews

Iran told visiting UN envoy Staffan de Mistura of its alarm Tuesday about what it said were ceasefire breaches in Syria on the eve of fresh peace negotiations in Geneva.

The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon rejected an appeal against the demolition of the home of the Arab terrorist who murdered an Israeli woman last January. Shlomit Krigman was stabbed