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Middle Israel: A Middle Eastern Finland

With conflicts rapidly multiplying around it, Israel is steadily adopting a mind-set of neutrality. There was a time when Switzerland epitomized the idyll Israel… Read More ›

Alan Rickman, Snape in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at 69

Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” films as well as “Die… Read More ›

Taiwan set to elect first female leader

Hong Kong – Voters in the only Chinese democracy are expected to elect Taiwan’s first female leader when they go to the polls Saturday for presidential… Read More ›

Outrage over Charlie Hebdo cartoon of dead toddler Alan Kurdi as sex attacker

After a year in which it has never been far from the headlines, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is back in the news again —… Read More ›

EU presents aggressive strategy for fighting anti-Semitism

New coordinator aims to tackle online hate speech, expand legislation prohibiting Holocaust denial Tackling online hate speech, implementing hate crime legislation and education are… Read More ›

Anti-Semitism drives record-high Western European immigration to Israel

Amid rise in attacks, 9,880 make aliya in 2015, including almost 8,000 from France AP — Jewish immigration to Israel from Western Europe has… Read More ›

French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?

Calls to hide Jewishness amount to ‘projecting part of the responsibility on the victim,’ warns France’s Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia PARIS (AP) — Religious… Read More ›

Philly police probe tip that radical group wants to harm officers

Man who shot cop said he was ‘following Allah,’ is believed to have traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in… Read More ›

Cologne police: New Year mob violence cases rise to 516

Apparently coordinated robberies, sexual assaults on women by ‘foreign’ assailants put new pressure on Germany’s migrant policy BERLIN (AP) — German authorities need to… Read More ›

How social media helped free a ‘chained’ woman after 8 years

Following intense public pressure — and a little help from YouTube — an Ohio man provides a Jewish bill of divorce to the wife he… Read More ›

Cheerful Olmert dines out in Tel Aviv: Nothing is over until it’s over

Spotted at fancy restaurant weeks before jail term begins, ex-PM insists he’s not fazed at prospect of doing time, says ‘I’m not spoiled’ With… Read More ›

I refused to put money into the office Powerball pool because of math — but my boss’ rationale for playing is economically sound

Business Insider considered the dollar costs and probabilities involved in winning Wednesday’s massive $500 million Powerball jackpot, and concluded that buying a ticket is… Read More ›