Seven decades after the Nazis liquidated the Lodz Ghetto and sent its remaining Jews to Auschwitz, the Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel, in partnership with the Lodz Jewish community, announced today

For the second time in less than a week, a Jewish congregation in San Antonio, Texas, uncovered anti-Semitic graffiti on its property Monday morning, the My San Antonio news website

Police in Thailand have identified a suspect in Monday’s terrorist attack in the heart of the capital Bangkok, which killed at least 21 people and left dozens wounded. A large

Thailand’s army chief on Monday hinted that the bomb blast at a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 22 people may have indeed been a terror attack, according to Reuters.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, on Monday night called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon and on the Security Council to condemn the latest series of terrorist attacks against

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday voiced “serious concern” over reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) group has used chemical weapons in Iraq. “Recent reports

An expose by a British paper has revealed that a senior Amnesty international official has links with Hamas and a wider secret global Islamist network, once again raising questions about the NGO’s alleged

Egypt has opened its border with Gaza for the first time in two months, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday. The Rafah border crossing opened Monday for four days,

Mohammed Allan, the Islamic Jihad member whose hunger strike drew world attention, has woken up in Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital. The doctors treating Allan say that they have ceased anesthetizing him

230 olim, among them 59 lone soldiers, arrived in Israel Tuesday morning aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight Tuesday morning. The new olim were welcomed at the airport in a special

For more than six months, MKs from United Torah Judaism (UTJ) have been working the Ministry of Defense’s legal advisor, Ahaz Ben Ari, in order to come up with an

In advance of the upcoming Sukkot holiday season, Israeli distributors of the four species (arba minim) are predicting that the shmitta Sabbatical year will take a very heavy toll on their sales,

A top Iranian official has said that Iran will sign a deal to purchase advances S-300 missile systems from Russia by next week. Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan

An elderly Jewish woman was assaulted while visiting the Temple Mount Tuesday morning – and police did nothing to protect her or arrest her attacker.  Brenda Rubin, a resident of

A second explosion has been reported in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, just a day after a bomb attack at a popular tourist site killed more than 20 people

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin responded to reports Monday that some of the rabbis on the new independent conversion courts do not require converts to obligate themselves to a full religious lifestyle.  Riskin, the Chief Rabbi

More than 300 liberal American rabbis wrote members of Congress Monday urging them to support the international nuclear deal with Iran, signaling the US Jewish community is split over the

As many as 27 people have been reported killed and dozens wounded in an explosion near a shrine and popular shopping mall in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.  But, “no Israelis

Israel denied reports circling the Arab world on Monday of long-term ceasefire discussions being held in Qatar’s capital of Doha on behalf of the Jewish state and Hamas.  One report suggested former

The fate of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is still undecided but it will not leave the country open to US influence, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday.

Britain’s Labor Party has said it will launch an official investigation after dozens of anti-Semitic hate messages were sent to non-Jewish MPs who criticized the front-runner in the party’s leadership race.

As many as 27 people have been reported killed and dozens wounded in an explosion near a shrine in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, as the death toll continues to rise.

American Jewish musician Matisyahu on Monday responded for the first time to his being disinvited from a music festival in Spain due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The State Department in Washington on Monday said it was too soon to tell if a blast at a renowned shrine in Bangkok that killed at least 16 people was

Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, on Monday said no agreement was reached at a last-ditch meeting with a nationalist party to form a coalition alliance, reports The Associated Press (AP).

The United States condemned on Monday Syrian airstrikes on a rebel-held town that left nearly 100 dead, and insisted President Bashar al-Assad must go. “Yesterday’s air strikes, following its other recent market bombings

Two hundred and thirty two new immigrants to Israel departed New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday, aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight.  The flight was facilitated in

Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday told CNN that he plans a two-day trip to Israel. He’ll depart Tuesday. He said the trip to the

Turkey and the United States said Sunday that Washington would withdraw its Patriot missile batteries from the country in October, after bolstering Ankara’s air defenses against threats from Syria’s civil

Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson accused President Barack Obama Sunday of being anti-Semitic, as evidenced by Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Carson told Fox News Sunday, in response