US Airstrikes Target ISIS Leaders In Iraq
Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly been “critically” injured in a US-led airstrike in Iraq that targeted a convoy of military vehicles… Read More ›
Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly been “critically” injured in a US-led airstrike in Iraq that targeted a convoy of military vehicles… Read More ›
Further terrorist attacks can be expected in Jerusalem and elsewhere, though police are witnessing improved security on the ground as expanded security forces continue to… Read More ›
Calm must be restored in Jerusalem before direct or regional Israeli-Palestinian peace talks can commence, said US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, following… Read More ›
Spain’s parliament will hold a symbolic vote on November 18 over recognition of a Palestinian state, according to a report in Spanish newspaper El País.… Read More ›
US officials state that relations with Israel’s government are not in crisis, despite claims to the contrary. But they have questioned its commitment to peace for… Read More ›
More American Jews are sending their children to Orthodox day schools, as total enrollment is up 12 percent from 2008, according to statistics from a… Read More ›
Mindy Pollack, a councilor in Montreal, proposed an extension to the time frame allowed by city law regarding succahs. The current laws allot 15 days… Read More ›
Emily Kessler, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, treated 350 guests to a stringed instrument concert on Monday at Lincoln Center. Kessler, who escaped the Nazi invasion… Read More ›
A Dutch historical society returned jewels to a Jewish family on Thursday who had given them to neighbors before the Nazis forced them out of… Read More ›
Bronx resident Berta Davidovitz Rubinsztejn was awarded the Jewish Rescuers Citation by B’Nai B’Rith on Thursday for helping Jews out of Nazi-occupied Hungary during World… Read More ›
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest issued a public statement that US policy on Iran has not changed, in response to the report that President Obama… Read More ›
The highest-ranking U.S. military officer said he wants to learn from Israel’s good example. Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of… Read More ›
The Republicans may have swept the midterm congressional elections, but Jews still largely identify as Democrat, despite the party’s lean towards supporting Palestine. Out of… Read More ›
The Socialist party ruling in France wants parliament to follow in the footsteps of Sweden and Britain and recognize a Palestinian state, an attempt to… Read More ›
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that “‘atrocities’” such as the second vehicular terrorist attack in less than two weeks in Jerusalem, would further… Read More ›
The 27-year-old who set fire to a kosher supermarket in Paris during a July 20 anti-Israel riot received a four-year prison sentence on Wednesday, almost… Read More ›
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is most likely happy with the results of Tuesday’s Midterm elections. Ron Dermer, Israel’s diplomatic envoy to the US, has… Read More ›
In her recently released memoirs “Hard Choices,” Hillary Clinton referred to Israel as an occupying force. She states that Israeli presence in the West Bank… Read More ›
Several tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Trondheim-a town in the north of Norway were vandalized last week, a Jewish newspaper reported on Wednesday. Someone… Read More ›
US President Barack Obama urged Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to reach a deal on Iran’s nuclear program and join the US against Islamic State… Read More ›