Egypt – Annual Festival Honoring Moroccan Rabbi Abu Hatzeira Banned By Court
An Egyptian court has banned an annual festival in honor of Moroccan rabbi that was regularly attended by hundreds of Jewish pilgrims, mainly from Israel… Read More ›
An Egyptian court has banned an annual festival in honor of Moroccan rabbi that was regularly attended by hundreds of Jewish pilgrims, mainly from Israel… Read More ›
Chicago – Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on various garages and a synagogue in a highly populated Jewish area in Chicago early Sunday morning. Messages were… Read More ›
A kosher restaurant “Chana’s Place” established by Rabbi Mendy Sudakveich, and named after his wife, is set to open next week in Tokyo. “Initially, the… Read More ›
President de Kirchner met Yair Tawil – son of Shlomo Tawil, director of the Chabad House in Rosario, Argentina – and his family at her office… Read More ›
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 ›