Jerusalem – Visiting US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on Saturday night alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, There will be a “violent backlash” by… Read More ›
Syria – Islamic State has suffered severe losses as a result of coalition air strikes in the last months. Over 1,000 of its fighters have… Read More ›
Pyongyang – After the release of a comedy film about a fictional plot to kill its leader, North Korea suffered a new Internet outage on Saturday… Read More ›
Carolyn Starman Hessel joined the New York-based Jewish Book Council in 1994. Since then, she’s been called the “Jewish Oprah” for her ability to help authors… Read More ›
A fundraising campaign started quietly by two first graders two years ago to help find a cure for a rare genetic disease just passed the… Read More ›
Bnei Brak – A struggle for women’s rights is brewing within Israel’s deeply conservative ultra-Orthodox community. Women, who have largely been shut out of politics,… Read More ›
Jordan – According to a report in the Arab press, a prisoner exchange may be in the cards for a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic… Read More ›
Tehran – On Friday Iran said it is going to expand what it calls “smart filtering” of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content… Read More ›
New York – Though trading was light with many traders still out for the Christmas holiday, U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with major indexes hitting… Read More ›
Cairo – Sources quoted by the Egyptian media said, an Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo early Thursday morning in an attempt to find the remains… Read More ›
Jordan – The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State militants in Syria has pleaded for his son’s release. Safi Yousef al-Kaseasbeh, speaking… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia – On Thursday, two Saudi women detained for nearly a month in defiance of a ban to keep females from driving were referred… Read More ›
Tehran – Iran’s Press TV reports that they will began a six-day, wide-scale military drill on Thursday that will span an area of 2.2 million… Read More ›
Washington – The White House chef is stepping down. Political advisers, chiefs of staff, press secretaries and national security advisers have come and gone in the… Read More ›
Tel Aviv – Amid loud Hebrew music and green-clad soldiers waving Israeli flags, they streamed off the shuttle buses into Terminal One of Ben-Gurion Airport,… Read More ›
Paris – A bullet fired from an air gun crashed through a window of a Paris synagogue’s office. French police reportedly are searching for two… Read More ›
Jerusalem – In what opponents view as a political ploy aimed at gaining favor with hard-line voters, Israel’s outgoing government is pumping millions of dollars… Read More ›
For many Jewish Americans, the night before Christmas conjures up visions, not of sugar plums, but plum sauce slathered over roast duck or an overstocked… Read More ›
A far-right Swedish Member of Parliament said last week that Jewish people can’t be true Swedes unless they abandon their religion. Björn Söder, the deputy… Read More ›
Rockland County, NY -18 year old Florend Gjevukaj of Yonkers, the third suspect sought by police in connection with an early morning Black Friday assault… Read More ›
