World Jewish News

New York-based Forward newspaper names suspect; many details of case still under gag order in Israel   A New York-based Jewish newspaper named an American… Read More ›

Telecom service partners with Hebrew digital book library in hopes of a digital reading revolution; poll shows digital books use is lagging in Israel, but… Read More ›

Cities with a high concentration of the ultra-Orthodox have a higher life expectancy – as much as three years – than otherwise expected based on… Read More ›

Ron Dermer counters BDS by sending items made in West Bank as embassy’s annual holiday gift. Israel’s ambassador to the United States used the embassy’s… Read More ›

Channel 10 publishes video of right-wing extremists stabbing photo of slain Palestinian toddler at wedding.   Te parents of Jewish terrorist suspects called on Wednesday… Read More ›

Hamas’s biggest fear is that Turkey and Israel resume their security and military cooperation, which will result in restricting Hamas activities in Turkey.    … Read More ›

“Muslim” written on Islamic crescent-shaped symbols.   An Iranian American academic’s initiative to combat Islamophobia through the use of yellow Stars of David marked with… Read More ›

7,328 French immigrants in 2015; Russia saw most dramatic increase in immigration, according to Jewish Agency figures   For the second consecutive year, France is… Read More ›

Casino magnate’s wife believes she and her husband presage collapse of democracy, is key decision maker over campaign donations to presidential candidates   JTA –… Read More ›

Shutdown of schools, airports, and municipalities averted as public sector workers guaranteed 7.5% salary increase over 5 years   After hours of high-level talks, Finance… Read More ›

Histadrut workers’ union demands 11% raise in wages in the public sector; direct economic damages of a strike are estimated at about NIS 300 million… Read More ›

Petro Poroshenko declines to comment on a statement by his Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, asserting that vandalism against Jewish sites were meant to “destabilize” Ukraine.… Read More ›

A month after his murder by Palestinian terrorists, a look at mitzvah projects — from ‘epic wiffle tournaments’ to polar plunges — inspired by 18-year-old… Read More ›

Thousands turn out for funeral of terrorist said to have been killed in IDF strike on Syria; Shiite group calls assassination a ‘stupid act’  … Read More ›

Novy God, New Year’s in Russian, is celebrated as a secular holiday, but that doesn’t stop some Israeli Jews from criticizing its observance   TEL… Read More ›

Around 300 stops are receiving steel pillars to prevent cars from ramming into waiting crowds, following vehicular attack last week that wounded 11. The Jerusalem… Read More ›