Syria’s war enters its sixth year next week with a glimmer of hope that a landmark ceasefire and a push for peace could help resolve a conflict that recently has sent hundreds of thousands
The Women of the Wall (WoW) group held a Rosh Hodesh prayer session at the Western Wall (Kotel) on Friday morning, and once again smuggled a Torah scroll into the
HaShem first told us of His command to Moshe to tell the People of Israel to donate gold and silver (and other materials) back in Parshat T’ruma. Before Moshe had
Responding to the apparent anger of the UK, the White House on Friday backtracked from US President Barack Obama’s comments in a recent interview with the Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg. In the same interview
Elections in Syria observed by the United Nations should be held in 18 months, the UN’s Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency on Friday. “New elections…should be held 18
Aside from siphoning off international aid for its missile and tunnel programs, Hamas has been cynically manipulating the residents in Gaza by imposing unreasonable taxes to prop up its terror
A new UN report Friday reveals that children and the disabled have been burned alive in South Sudan, and that members of the pro-government militia have been allowed to rape
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva Eviatar Manor issued strong criticism Thursday against the UNHRC for its biased stance towards the Jewish state. Speaking before the UNHRC,
A 29-year-old haredi man was attacked by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Friday afternoon, suffering stab wounds to the upper body. The victim, who was light wounded, was stabbed at the Jaffa
A new UN report Friday reveals that children and the disabled have been burned alive in South Sudan, and that members of the pro-government militia have been allowed to rape
United States President Barack Obama said on Thursday he does not regret stepping back from his “red line” on the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria.
The Uruguayan government said on Thursday that a convert to Islam who fatally stabbed a Jewish man in the country earlier this week while reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” acted alone
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign ministry has condemned Israel’s defensive actions in which attacking Arab terrorists have been killed – and in delegitimizing the self-defense, it relied upon the head of
Early on Friday morning an Arab terrorist threw an explosive at an Israeli car driving near Otniel in the southern Hevron hills region of Judea. The terrorist waited by the road with
The body of American tourist Taylor Force, who was murdered on Tuesday in an Arab terrorist attack in Jaffa (Yafo), is being sent back to America on Friday morning for
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has gone further than snubbing US Vice President Joe Biden’s call to condemn terror attacks this week – it was revealed that earlier this
Why were the Table, Menorah and Altar positioned in the Mishkan (Tabernacle) the way they were? “He put the Table in the Tent of meeting on the North side of
In a joint operation between IDF forces, the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and the police, transmitters and technical equipment were seized on Thursday night from the “Palestine Alyoum” broadcasting station in
Rabbi Joshua Kahn has been appointed the new head of the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MSTA). Welcoming the new school head, Miriam Goldberg, chair of
The precariousness of Israel’s narrow waistline 1. Pressuring Israel to retreat to the pre-1967 ceasefire lines – which is an 8-15-mile sliver along the Mediterranean, dominated by the Judea &
Most Israeli Arabs think that the Joint List Knesset members do not properly represent them, according to a survey published by Channel 2. According to the survey, which was completed by
The Israeli Security Cabinet held a meeting on Thursday night on the Arab terror wave that has raged since last September, and decided to begin work on fences around Jerusalem
The US-led coalition carried out the first air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) chemical weapons sites, the Pentagon said Thursday, acting on crucial information from a captured senior insurgent. The successful multiple bombings
The family members of a terrorist who wounded two Border Police officers in an attack in eastern Jerusalem earlier this week were expelled from Jerusalem on Thursday and sent to Palestinian
Ramat Givat Zeev, a new community in the Jerusalem hills, is attracting hundreds of families from the United States, largely because Rav Bezalel Rudinsky of Monsey plans to open an
After a brief delay, Egyptian diplomat and former Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was named Thursday as the Arab League’s new secretary general, AFP reports. The appointment came after Qatar
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday night ordered the country to improve nuclear attack capability by continuing to conduct more tests, Reuters reports, citing the official KCNA news
The UN Watch NGO revealed on Thursday that the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) vetting committee has shortlisted a UK professor for a six-year term as the world body’s investigator
In the wake of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning call to Iran on Wednesday protesting its recent ballistic missile tests defying US sanctions, Iran on Thursday held a ceremony