Turkey and Israel are making progress in rapprochement talks, but some issues still need to be resolved, diplomatic sources told Arutz Sheva on Thursday evening. The Israeli team for talks

The Sephardic Chief Rabbi blasted a High Court decision Thursday allowing Reform and Conservative religious courts to perform conversion ceremonies in public mikvehs, or ritual purification pools. According to the

The Sephardic Chief Rabbi blasted a High Court decision Thursday allowing Reform and Conservative religious courts to perform conversion ceremonies in public mikvehs, or ritual purification pools. According to the

Mikhail Skoblionok, the head of the Jewish National and Cultural Autonomy of Tatarstan, expressed doubts Tuesday that many Jews will accept the Russian president’s invitation to leave Europe and find

Major world powers agreed overnight Thursday to a plan aimed at breaking the deadlock in Syria, Reuters reported, citing a diplomatic source. According to the source, the plan would introduce

French lawmakers have formed a commission of inquiry into possible security failings over two major terror attacks in Paris in 2015 that left 147 people dead, a deputy said Thursday,

It took a century, but the theory from Albert Einstein handwritten neatly on paper that is now yellowing has finally been vindicated. Israeli officials on Thursday offered a rare look at the documents where Einstein

The town of Kochav Yaakov in Samaria inaugurated Wednesday a new neighborhood called “Yishai” to mark the shloshim (thirty-day period following burial) of Yishai Rozales of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion,

Hamas may be leading the efforts in Gaza to build underground attack tunnels meant for murdering Israeli civilians and soldiers, but the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has

How to overcome negativity. Are you a complainer? Do you find yourself grumbling when you are stuck in traffic, waiting on line, or facing a weekend with your mother in

Saudi Arabia’s decision to send troops to Syria to fight Islamic State (ISIS) is “final,” the spokesman of the Saudi-led coalition force in Yemen announced on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri

Interior Minister and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri met Thursday with France’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Joseph Haim Sitruk, and discussed the situation of French Jewry, and the Jewish concerns following the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night decided to appoint Nadav Argaman as the new head of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet or Shabak), as the current ISA chief

Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign defended on Thursday an endorsement from evangelical Pastor Mike Bickle, whose statements regarding Biblical prophecies about the persecution of Jews aroused the ire of some Jewish leaders.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Thursday that if Arab forces entered the Syrian war, they could spark a “new world war” and urged ceasefire talks instead. Asked about proposals by some Arab countries to

NATO is considering joining the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria and Iraq, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday. “Thanks to the leadership of NATO (head) Jens Stoltenberg we are

Over 4,000 French students attended the Jewish Agency’s Israel education fair at the Hyatt Hotel in Paris this week.  The fair, which was cosponsored by MASA Israel, presented the prospective students

After Tourism Minister Yariv Levin asserted US Reform Jews would become “irrelevant” within two generations, the denomination hit back by scrapping a planned meeting between the minister and community representatives.  The

In the wake of the recent stabbing attack in Beit Horon which claimed the life of 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman, Israel Police and the IDF investigated the circumstances of the attack. In the

A Netzah Yehuda soldier was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for the beating several months ago of two Arab terrorists detained at the Harmash base in Samaria.  He was

An Israeli parliamentarian has drawn ire and ridicule after suggesting “Palestine” is a borrowed term that Palestinians themselves cannot pronounce. “The letter P doesn’t exist in Arabic, so the borrowed term Palestine

70 percent of the Israeli populace believes that primary elections to determine the leader of a political party is a style of party leadership that brings a high level of corruption

Holocaust survivors expressed outrage Wednesday after an Austrian prosecutor appeared to justify an article in a far-right magazine calling people liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp a criminal “plague.” An article in the

Head of the Israeli news agency “Makor Yisraeli”, David Bedein, fiercely attacked the IDF Civil Administration as well as the Ministry of Education for allowing the distribution of schoolbooks that

(AFP) Israeli navy veteran Ami Daniel points at his computer screen and explains why the ship he was tracking should have been stopped and searched. It sailed near the Libyan

An indictment was filed Thursday at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court against an unnamed Israeli diplomat accused of beating his daughter. According to the indictment, Channel 10 reports, the beatings took place while the

French lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of measures to change the constitution following the November 13 jihadist attacks on Paris, but doubts remain as to whether the package will be

MK Aida Touma-Suleiman, a member of the Hadash faction of the Joint List party, on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of “deliberate incitement” against the Arab MKs which, she

MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), head of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, vowed on Wednesday to work to remove MKs who support terrorism from the Knesset, one by