Technion-Israel Institute of Technology graduate and Columbia professor Maria Chudnovsky will get $100,000 every year for the next five years to use as she pleases. “Somebody once said if they

Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidim are determined, in fact generally unstoppable once they are on “a mission from G-d.” Hurricane relief is part of the deal; this time, they are organizing volunteers to

The biblical kingdom of David (1000 BCE), followed by Solomon, was the Jewish people’s first independent nation-state, with Jerusalem as its political and spiritual capital. Over the following three millennia,

Thousands of Christian Zionists gathered at a Texas megachurch on Sunday night to rally in support for Israel, the San Antonio Express-News reported. Pastor John Hagee, noted television evangelist and founder of

For over forty years Israel has been losing a public relations war to the Arabs and now to the Palestinain Arabs. And no one in Israel seems to care. Dr.

Leaders of the IDF and the U.S. Armed Forces held a press conference at week’s end in honor of this week’s beginning of Austere Challenge 12 (AC 12), the largest

Lonely Planet editors rank Negev second on list, calling the Israeli desert a “giant greenhouse of development” • France’s Corsica region takes first place on the list. Ilan Gattegno Lonely

A List From January 1, 2012 Till October 25, 2012: October 17 – 25 Seventy (70) rocket hits Approximately seventy of the many more rockets fired from Gaza hit southern

Tel Aviv’s older sister, built around an ancient seaport and in the midst of a revival, is not to be missed by tourists. Middle Eastern smells, the frenetic mix of

Tel Aviv has been chosen as one of three finalists to compete for the title of being the “Most Innovative City” in the world. The competition is being run by

Together with a large homefront security drill taking place in Israel Sunday, the IDF is set to open on Sunday morning a major military exercise together with U.S. forces stationed

As part of his job as ‘special military reporter,’ Hugo Jaeger got to use advanced color photography during World War II. His work includes unique documentation of Jews in Warsaw,

Although Israel continues to find itself in the midst of regional conflict, global companies and investors still see the country and the Israeli people in a much different light than

Although economic activity has slowed in 2012, Israel poised to end year with 3.5% growth, higher than most Western economies, two times OECD average • Eurozone, global financial crisis have

Jewish-American economist Alvin Roth and his American colleague Lloyd Shapley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday for their work on market design and matching theory. Their groundbreaking

The global Jewish population reached 13.75 million in the past year, with an increase of 88,000 people, a study by Hebrew University Professor Sergio DellaPergola reveals. According to the study,

An Israeli court has ruled that a collection of Franz Kafka’s works must be handed to Israel’s national library. The ruling settles a long legal dispute over ownership of the

Israeli Dr. Akiva Mintz M.D., Ph.D., of Wake Forest Baptist, was part of a team of scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center who have taken the first steps to

Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals. Robert

A new genetic analysis focusing on Jews from North Africa has provided an overall genetic map of the Jewish Diasporas. The findings support the historical record of Middle Eastern Jews

Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics  that could one day open the way

The Republican Jewish Coalition presents “Perilous Times,” a mini-documentary in which Israeli experts and everyday citizens candidly discuss their concerns about the U.S.-Israel relationship under Pres. Obama. Among the notable

Tel Aviv has been nominated as one of the world’s most innovative cities in Wall Street Journal magazine’s City of the Year contest, sponsored by Citibank. A total of 25

One in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Israeli scientists hope to improve the odds.   One out of every eight women will develop breast cancer in

Sunday evening at sundown is the start of the holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles), one of the three major festivals (shlosha regalim) of the Jewish calendar in which, in Temple days,  the

Since the 18th century, American founding fathers and scholars have been aware of deeply-rooted Islamic violence, terrorism, intolerance and hatred toward other Muslims, as well as non-Muslims. Early American leaders

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew an actual red line with a marker on a chart symbolizing Iran’s uranium enrichment program, and expained that Iran must be told that if it

You think you really know about the Palestinian refugees? This short animated clip covers the story of how they became refugees and why they have stayed that way. It also

The Charmer — the Golda Meir you didn’t know Tough and energetic, but also empathetic and captivating. Though commonly perceived as rigid, Israel’s only woman prime minister to date is