Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British writer who wrote The Satanic Verses, has published a new book that again deals with Islamic figures. It is entitled “Two Years Eight Months and

About half an hour before Shabbat began yesterday, detectives and members of the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shabak or Shin Bet) ordered a Jewish man to

A court witness who had disappeared resurfaced this evening (Saturday), reportedly having contacted his relatives and his lawyer. The witness testified for the prosecution against crime organizations. Due to his

Austria’s chancellor used a controversial Holocaust reference on Saturday, subtly comparing Hungary’s treatment of the Syrian migrant crisis to Jews transported to concentration camps.  “Refugees put on trains in the

Hundreds of ads supporting IDF soldiers were placed in haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem last night (Friday). The posters are part of a wide campaign entitled “Embracing the haredi soldiers.” They

MK Avraham Nagosa (Likud), chairman of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, warned on Sunday that excluding programs for Israel’s Ethiopian community from the government’s budget would be a “historic mistake.”

The company that managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” indicating that tens of thousands of emails Clinton said were deleted

With little fanfare, “unofficial” talks between Israel and the United States addressing the aftermath of the Iran nuclear deal have reportedly begun two weeks ago.  Both senior American and Israeli sources say current

A court in Egypt on Saturday ratified death sentences for 12 people convicted of planning attacks on behalf of the jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) group, AFP reported. Six of those

In an unusually long statement, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations calls for unity for the “day after,” essentially conceding in the fight against the Obama-Iran nuclear

Argentina’s president, Cristina Kirchner, on Saturday night celebrated the victory of Jeremy Corbyn’s in being elected leader of the opposition in Britain, saying he supports dialogue over the disputed Falkland

Searching for historic photographs of Rosh Hashanah and blowing the shofar (ram’s horn), we discovered a poster showing Jewish pictures of Jewish festivals. Starring in the 1879 photo gallery was a

Representatives from a number of Palestinian organizations met in Beirut in order to work out a joint strategy to continue fighting Israel. The groups included Hamas, the Popular Front for

The Egyptian government handed its resignation to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi today (Saturday). President al-Sisi has since ordered the oil minister to create a new cabinet. The country’s parliament was

The British Daily Mail reports that 21 out of the thousands of refugees that arrived in Germany over recent months were placed in barracks that belonged to the Nazi extermination

Jeremy Corbyn, the far-left Labor leadership candidate who infamously called Hamas and Hezbollah as his “friends,” has been elected leader of the UK’s Labor party by a landslide. The result

The dust storm that has shrouded Israel for the past few days is expected to completely clear up tomorrow (Sunday). Tonight the weather is expected to be slightly cloudy, continuing

The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization claims that his country has discovered a surprisingly large amount of uranium in a new mine. Ali Akbar Salehi told official news

Iran’s foreign ministry said on Friday that the United States had no option but to strike a nuclear deal with Tehran, after a Republican bid to block the agreement failed,

A Polish explorer claimed on Friday he has found a massive underground structure in southwestern Poland which, he says, the Nazis built to protect thousands of people, according to The

At least 87 people died and more than 200 people were injured when a crane collapsed on Friday in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the BBC

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will likely visit the White House in early November to meet with President Barack Obama, the White House said Friday, according to The Hill. Press Secretary

A former French minister stirred up controversy on Friday after saying Germany “took our Jews and gave us Arabs”. The comments by Patrick Devedjian came as France began taking some

The United States House of Representatives on Friday rejected the nuclear accord with Iran, though the move is a symbolic one that will have no consequence for the implementation of

A joint US-Israeli deal to co-produce the David’s Sling missile defense system may be weeks away after years of negotiations, a defense official said Thursday.  US Navy Vice Admiral James Syring,

Despite a Senate vote Thursday night giving the green light for the nuclear deal struck between Iran and Western powers, the US may yet block sanctions relief to the Islamic Republic

Democrats in the Senate on Thursday foiled a Republican bill of disapproval to the Iran nuclear deal sparing US President Barack Obama from needing to use his veto. However, the same day a resolution

Washington is sending 75 extra troops to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to increase the safety of U.S. forces there following a roadside bomb attack last week, the Pentagon said Thursday, reports

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, on Thursday night spoke at the UN General Assembly, shortly after it overwhelmingly approved a resolution allowing the Palestinian flag to be

The Zionist Union party on Thursday evening sharply condemned the European Parliament’s decision to label products from the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria (Shomron) as “settlement products”, saying it was