EDINBURGH, Scotland (JTA) — The last time that Scotland voted on whether to become independent from the United Kingdom, most of its 7,000 Jews thought doing so was a bad idea.

CNN on Tuesday published an updated map showing places in the world in which terrorist attacks had taken place during the Muslim month of Ramadan – but failed to include

A motorcycle bomber killed at least 16 people outside a bakery in northern Syria’s Hasakeh city Tuesday, on the eve of the feast marking the end of Ramadan, an official

Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, on Tuesday called on the Canadian government to ban Al-Quds Day rallies in the country following a similar rally last week in which one

Three people were killed and another five injured in airstrikes targeting the Khan al-Shih neighborhood in Syria, which is considered a “Palestinian refugee camp”, the Ma’an news agency reported Tuesday.

Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials told Haaretz on Tuesday they are concerned that the U.S. administration may seek to modify the French peace initiative to avert a risk of bringing

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump to 13 percentage points, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday found. The poll was taken

The State Department on Tuesday issued a scathing condemnation of Israel’s plans to build new housing units in Maale Adumim and in Jerusalem. “If it’s true, this report would be

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid lambasted the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Tuesday, following the organization’s condemnation of the recent demolitions of the homes

The Knesset Special Committee for the Rights of the Child visited a Beit-Shemesh based organization dedicated to providing help and psychological treatment for haredi children and youth who’ve suffered sexual assault, the Haredim 10 website

While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged last week that following the murders of two Israelis at the hands of Arab terrorists Israel would no longer transfer taxes collected on behalf

A female terrorist attacked soldiers of the Givati Brigade at a bus stop on Route 5 near the town of Barkan, just west of Ariel. After slowly approaching the soldiers,

The Rabbinical Court decision not to recognize conversions by the rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump continues to ruffle feathers. In advance of tomorrow’s (Wednesday) Supreme Rabbinical Court hearing regarding recognition of

After a public outcry highlighted the star’s resemblance to the Star of David, Trump deleted the image. “Donald Trump should stop playing the blame game and accept that his campaign

Jay Shapiro claims that Western society is under siege by radical Islam. In his opinion, political correctness is often employed by jihadists as a weapon in their war on Western

Hours after the FBI announced it would not recommend that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be indicted over her use of a private email server, President Barack Obama threw

WASHINGTON (JTA) –  “I am proud to be a Vlach,” says Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. Ostensibly, we’re here at the Washington Hilton to discuss Boutaris’ bid

British Lawmaker Naz Shah, who was suspended by the Labour party over online posts about Israel, has been reinstated, a local party spokesman said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Shah,

Last Friday Iran, and its supporters around the world, marked Al Quds Day, the annual day of Israel-hatred established by the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Khomeini. The mass rallies, featuring

Two terrorists from the Gaza Strip have been arrested for smuggling cash earmarked for Hamas activities in Judea and Samaria – in their shoes. The two are Faiz Attar (65) of Beit Lahia, and

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) signed on Tuesday a series of reform aimed at curbing the use of Israel’s judicial system as a political weapon against Jewish farmers in

The brouhaha surrounding the recognition of Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism by Israel may be nearing it’s end. Trump, the daughter of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, converted to Judaism

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrived in Kenya today (Tuesday) and was received by President Uhuru Kenyatta with a full ceremonial welcome.  Kenya is one of several stops in what is the

A week after MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) called for an investigation into the ongoing water shortage afflicting Jewish communities in Samaria, the Knesset subcommittee on Civil Affairs and Security

The 2nd graders of a Kiryat Arba school published an open letter to the government, in the form of a poem. The rhyme may be lost in translation, but the sentiment is

A Belgian court has jailed four leaders of a terror cell broken up in a raid in 2015, which had alleged links to the jihadists who staged attacks in Paris and Brussels. The

A female suspect who reportedly attempted to stab Israelis west of the town of Ariel in Samaria has been neutralized. There are no reports of Israelis were wounded in the

FBI Director James Comey held a press conference on Tuesday, announcing that the agency would not recommend that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be indicted over her use of

A Be’er Sheva court has ruled that Ethiopian keisim and rabbis suffered discrimination in salaries. The government will be required to pay each one 50,000 shekels ($13,000 US). According to

The head of the Yesha Council, which represents the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, has blasted the recent announcement of 42 “new” building tenders in Kiryat Arba as nothing