Revital Smotrich, the wife of MK Betzalel Smotrich (Jewish Home), issued an open letter on Friday morning following the backlash she and her husband have received for calling for Jewish
Albert Einstein quietly fumed at the US for not doing more to stop the Nazis, a letter being auctioned later this month reveals. “You can imagine how the new crimes
(JTA) — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has not followed through on promises to investigate Hasidic Orthodox yeshivas accused of not educating its students in basic subjects, an
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday he would be supporting Donald Trump for president in the April 19 Republican primary. “I support Trump. I’m gonna vote for
When we read it in Parshat Bo this year, it was still about three months away. When we read it this Shabbat – and we say THIS MONTH, we really
(JTA) — A 92-year-old survivor of seven German concentration camps participated in a Reddit Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story. Henry Flescher of Aventura,
The United States is open to a “new arrangement” with Iran for peacefully resolving disputes such as its recent ballistic missile tests, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, according
(JTA) — A former SS guard died a week before he was scheduled to go on trial for his alleged role in the murder of more than 1,000 people at
An Egyptian court postponed on Thursday the third session in the final trial of former president Hosni Mubarak on murder-related charges after he failed to show up to the High
The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Thursday denied that he claimed Israel killed 10,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, CBS New York reported. During
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli Scout Movement held a memorial service for Taylor Force, the American graduate student killed in a terror attack in Tel Aviv. The event Thursday
China’s Fosun International reported to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Thursday morning that it agreed to buy a 15% stake in the Dead Sea cosmetics manufacturer Ahava from B. Gaon Holdings
(JTA) Afikomen hunts, a rambunctious pup and the catchy classic “Dayenu.” All are featured in a half-dozen new Passover books for children that will inform and entertain even the littlest kid
The Islamic State (ISIS) group was accused Thursday of kidnapping more than 300 employees of a cement factory in Syria, in the latest mass abduction by the jihadists. ISIS attacked the town of Dmeir,
After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu relented on Thursday to their protest by agreeing to have 1,300 Ethiopian Jews brought home to Israel this year, Likud MKs Avraham Neguise and David Amsalem
Administrative detainee Meir Ettinger – who has been jailed without trial or charges for over eight months – and his lawyer demanded the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) suspend an officer Ettinger claims
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is taking action in the wake of a heated anti-Semitic student meeting at Stanford University, after an Associated Students of Stanford University discussion debated whether “Jews control the banks and the
How does somebody who has always been organized and plans things in advance spontaneously make Aliyah? What drives a person to become a professional organizer and life coach? How does a naturally organized person help
Parents and students from Princeton, New Jersey, have expressed outrage after a group of students posted photos on social media playing a game of “Jew vs Nazi” beer pong. The twisted
Leah Hasno, the daughter of Avraham Hasno, is not consoled by the impending demolition of the home of the Arab terrorist who murdered her father. “It is absurd that they’re
The latest round of reconciliation talks between Israel and Turkey which was held in Europe on Thursday ended without any significant progress. Diplomatic officials told Arutz Sheva that the meeting
Officials in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education organized a “chain of readers”, a popular way in the PA to commemorate terrorist Bahaa Alian who together
Israel’s five desalination plants along its coast produce more than 600 cubic meters of water each year, and 75% of water used in homes is desalinated. Given the water shortages
Senior sources in the Israeli security establishment accused Turkey on Thursday of playing a “double game” in rapprochement talks with Israel, even as the negotiating teams on both sides met
According to local media reports, vandals spray-painted swastikas on many tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Petrozavodsk, Russia. Dmitry Zwiebel, a community leader from the northwestern Russian city, announced that
Vienna’s famous Leopold Museum on Thursday settled a long-running feud over five Nazi-plundered drawings by Austrian painter Egon Schiele with the descendants of the works’ Jewish former owner. The museum said it had agreed
A key Likud minister said Thursday that the government is at risk of collapsing if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s narrow coalition of 61 MKs – the smallest majority possible – is not enlarged soon. Internal Security Minister
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjoern Jagland, has pledged support for the renovation of Jewish cemeteries during a visit on Tuesday to the to the newly fenced
Head of the Opposition and chair of the Zionist Union party MK Yitzchak Herzog responded Thursday to the comments made by MK Zuhair Bahloul of his party, who earlier in