Portugal grants citizenship to Serphardic Jews
The Portuguese Cabinet approved a law offering dual citizenship to the descendants of those Sephardic Jews — the term commonly used for those who once… Read More ›
The Portuguese Cabinet approved a law offering dual citizenship to the descendants of those Sephardic Jews — the term commonly used for those who once… Read More ›
Jordan is sending its ambassador back to Israel, after withdrawing the envoy in November over restrictions imposed on Muslim worshipers accessing Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque,… Read More ›
An Egyptian court banned the armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization, a ruling in keeping with a systematic… Read More ›
Canada will introduce new anti-terror laws that will make it a crime to promote terrorism against Canadians online. The laws will also allow anyone suspected… Read More ›
Israel’s government has issued hundreds of tenders for housing units in the West Bank, an area the Palestinians demand for their future state, a move… Read More ›
The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) has released its first comprehensive survey of Israel’s national-religious community. 21% of Israeli Jews state that, to a large or… Read More ›
A Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis made an emergency landing in Las Vegas on Thursday with the co-pilot at the controls after the pilot… Read More ›
A gas truck explosion decimated large parts of a maternity hospital on the western edge of Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least seven people… Read More ›
“We survivors do not want our past to be our children’s future,” Roman Kent, born in 1929, told a memorial gathering at the death camp’s… Read More ›
Portugal’s government approved a law granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago, following Spain’s adoption of similar legislation last… Read More ›
Police detained and questioned an 8-year-old boy from the south of France who claimed to support the men who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo,… Read More ›
The recent rift between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu has become more contentious lately and by all appearances, will only grow wider. Netanyahu seems… Read More ›
Jewish groups boycotted the Argentine government’s Holocaust Day commemoration Tuesday in protest over the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, while skepticism grew over President… Read More ›
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said attackers who killed two Israeli soldiers near the Israeli-Lebanese frontier would be held responsible. “Those behind the attack today… Read More ›
A gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the capital of Libya, killing 10 people, including an American, a French citizen and three people from Eastern… Read More ›
“Jews were killed in Auschwitz, just because they are Jews,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday during a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of… Read More ›
Three wanted Russian citizens were arrested for spying on behalf of Russia in New York City, and attempting to recruit New York residents as intelligence sources. The suspect identified… Read More ›
When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small… Read More ›
Five people were treated for suffering from Carbon Monoxide at Congregation Divrei Chaim synagogue Tuesday morning, and one person has been taken for treatment at… Read More ›
Steimatzky book store canceled the sale of the Charlie Hebdo French magazine after Arab objection. “Steimatzky decisively supports freedom of expression. The company has sold… Read More ›