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Portugal grants citizenship to Serphardic Jews

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 ›

Ambassador is sent back to Israel

Ambassador is sent back to Israel

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 ›

Egypt rules to ban Hamas and list it as a terrorist organization

Egypt rules to ban Hamas and list it as a terrorist organization

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 ›

New anti-terror laws in Canada

New anti-terror laws in Canada

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 ›

450 tenders have been issued in West Bank

450 tenders have been issued in West Bank

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 ›

Minority of Israeli Jews identify as national-religious

Minority of Israeli Jews identify as national-religious

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 ›

Airplane lands in Vegas with locked out of cockpit pilot

Airplane lands in Vegas with locked out of cockpit pilot

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 ›

Gas truck explosion in Mexico

Gas truck explosion in Mexico

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 ›

Auschwitz 70th anniversary

Auschwitz 70th anniversary

“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 approves citizenship plan for Sephardic Jews

Portugal’s government approves citizenship plan for Sephardic Jews

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 ›

8-year old boy who claimed to support terrorists is questioned by police

8-year old boy who claimed to support terrorists is questioned by police

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 ›

Israel has become a strongly partisan issue in Washington

Israel has become a strongly partisan issue in Washington

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 group in Argentina boycotts commemoration in protest

Jewish group in Argentina boycotts commemoration in protest

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 military car was hit near the border with Lebanon

Israeli military car was hit near the border with Lebanon

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 ›

Attack in Libya hotel

Attack in Libya hotel

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 ›

Russian president attends Auschwitz ceremony in Moscow

Russian president attends Auschwitz ceremony in Moscow

“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 ›

Russian spies were arrested in NYC

Russian spies were arrested in NYC

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 ›

70th anniversasy of Auschwitz liberation in Poland

70th anniversasy of Auschwitz liberation in Poland

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 ›

Carbon Monoxide situation at Borough Park synagogue

Carbon Monoxide situation at Borough Park synagogue

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 ›

Book store cancels sale of Charlie Hebdo after getting threats

Book store cancels sale of Charlie Hebdo after getting threats

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 ›