World Jewish News

    Comedian-turned-politician Jimmy Morales is leading in Guatemala’s presidential vote, according to preliminary election returns. Morales, 46, has won more than 72% of votes… Read More ›

During time of increased conflict in Israel, a record-breaking $12m is raised at American Friends of Magen David Adom event   LOS ANGELES — It… Read More ›

Week-long series of events to start Sunday night at the President’s Residence and the Yitzhak Rabin Center and culminate in main rally at Rabin Square… Read More ›

Attacker flees scene as police begin searches; settler in Gush Etzion stabbed after being forced off the road with stone barrage; security forces neutralize female… Read More ›

Netanyahu raises possibility in cabinet meeting of canceling residency status of East Jerusalem Palestinians who live on other side of the separation barrier sparking criticism… Read More ›

Teens are working together ‘to achieve a better future’ for Jewish state.   NEW YORK – It was the first time that 17-year-old May Ofir… Read More ›

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: Exercise ‘maximum restraint’   NEW YORK – Representatives of the UN Quartet for the Middle East expressed “grave concern” over the tensions… Read More ›

Car torched and words ‘administrative revenge’ found scrawled nearby in neighborhood of Umm Tuba   A car was found torched with racist graffiti daubed nearby… Read More ›

  Ramallah – Four dailies, eight TV stations, and scores of radio stations report on the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Palestinian territories.… Read More ›

Legislation, which would enshrine Israel’s status as the nation state of the Jewish people, won’t come up for ministerial debate   The Ministerial Committee for… Read More ›

In open letter to liberal UK newspaper, dozens of prominent figures from across the cultural, academic and political spheres in the UK call for cultural… Read More ›

Chaim Yechiel Rothman, who was seriously wounded during the Har Nof massacre in November 2014 and had been in hospitalized ever since, died from his… Read More ›

“Israel has no intention to divide the Temple Mount, and we completely reject any attempt to suggest otherwise,” says Netanyahu   Only Muslims can worship… Read More ›

Shimon Peres reflects on the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin   On July 13, 1992, Yitzhak Rabin presented his government before the 13th Knesset: “Members of… Read More ›

Jewish visitors risk unwittingly entering site of Holy of Holies and condemning themselves to eternal excommunication, chief rabbi and colleagues say   Dozens of prominent… Read More ›

Survey finds high levels of anti-Arab sentiment among nationalist religious Jews in Israel, consider minority an existential threat   JTA — During the previous wave… Read More ›