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Taiwan plane crash in Taipei

Taiwan plane crash in Taipei

A Taiwanese flight carrying 58 people banked sharply onto its side, clipped a highway bridge and careened into a shallow river Wednesday shortly after taking… Read More ›

Israeli-American students unite for peace

Israeli-American students unite for peace

Israeli-American college students from 33 campuses across North America gathered in L.A. for the inaugural Israeli American Council (IAC) Mishelanu National Conference this past weekend… Read More ›

‘Jewish 100’ Gala honors Joan Rivers

‘Jewish 100’ Gala honors Joan Rivers

The 2nd annual ‘Jewish 100’ Gala occurred in New York City, honoring the top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life. Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein,… Read More ›

Hundreds rabbis signed a letter asking to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes

Hundreds rabbis signed a letter asking to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes

More than 400 rabbis signed a letter asking to end the demolitions of Palestinian homes that fall outside Israeli zoning laws. Addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Soldier was attacked in front of a Jewish community center in France

Soldier was attacked in front of a Jewish community center in France

An attacker with a knife hidden in his bag attacked three soldiers on an anti-terror patrol in front of a Jewish community center in southern… Read More ›

Vegan menu for IDF soldiers

Vegan menu for IDF soldiers

Vegetarian has long been an option, but as of February, the army will be serving lentil burgers, green salads and whole wheat pita as a… Read More ›

Women’s Mosque opens in Los Angeles

Women’s Mosque opens in Los Angeles

Approximately 150 women gathered at an interfaith center in Los Angeles for what may be the first all-female Mosque in the United States. Male imams… Read More ›

Possible criminal probe against Netanyahu’s wife for alleged misuse of public funds

Possible criminal probe against Netanyahu’s wife for alleged misuse of public funds

Legal authorities launching a criminal probe against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife for alleged misuse of public funds. The news comes after Attorney General Yehuda… Read More ›

Israel is now more disliked by the British public than Iran

Israel is now more disliked by the British public than Iran

A recent survey by the United Kingdom’s Royal Institute of International Affairs asked “which of the following (countries) do you feel especially unfavorable toward?”  The… Read More ›

Portugal grants citizenship to Serphardic Jews

Portugal grants citizenship to Serphardic Jews

The Portuguese Cabinet approved a law offering dual citizenship to the descendants of those Sephardic Jews — the term commonly used for those who once… Read More ›

Ambassador is sent back to Israel

Ambassador is sent back to Israel

Jordan is sending its ambassador back to Israel, after withdrawing the envoy in November over restrictions imposed on Muslim worshipers accessing Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque,… Read More ›

Swastikas spray painted at University of California, Davis

Swastikas spray painted at University of California, Davis

Students at the University of California, Davis woke up Saturday morning to find swastikas spray painted outside of a Jewish fraternity, days after the school’s… Read More ›

Egypt rules to ban Hamas and list it as a terrorist organization

Egypt rules to ban Hamas and list it as a terrorist organization

An Egyptian court banned the armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization, a ruling in keeping with a systematic… Read More ›

New anti-terror laws in Canada

New anti-terror laws in Canada

Canada will introduce new anti-terror laws that will make it a crime to promote terrorism against Canadians online. The laws will also allow anyone suspected… Read More ›

450 tenders have been issued in West Bank

450 tenders have been issued in West Bank

Israel’s  government has issued hundreds of tenders for housing units in the West Bank, an area the Palestinians demand for their future state, a move… Read More ›

Minority of Israeli Jews identify as national-religious

Minority of Israeli Jews identify as national-religious

The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) has released its first comprehensive survey of Israel’s national-religious community. 21% of Israeli Jews state that, to a large or… Read More ›

Airplane lands in Vegas with locked out of cockpit pilot

Airplane lands in Vegas with locked out of cockpit pilot

A Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis made an emergency landing in Las Vegas on Thursday with the co-pilot at the controls after the pilot… Read More ›

Gas truck explosion in Mexico

Gas truck explosion in Mexico

A gas truck explosion decimated large parts of a maternity hospital on the western edge of Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least seven people… Read More ›

Auschwitz 70th anniversary

Auschwitz 70th anniversary

“We survivors do not want our past to be our children’s future,” Roman Kent, born in 1929, told a memorial gathering at the death camp’s… Read More ›

Portugal’s government approves citizenship plan for Sephardic Jews

Portugal’s government approves citizenship plan for Sephardic Jews

Portugal’s government approved a law granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago, following Spain’s adoption of similar legislation last… Read More ›