The argument that Islamic State is not Islamic because it mainly murders Muslims doesn’t hold water, says Middle East and Islam specialist Raymond Ibrahim. Raymond Ibrahim, writing for FrontPage Magazine on

“Israel is under a continuing onslaught of terror,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday evening at the 90th birthday party of former Likud minister Moshe Arens.  “The whole world is

Senior Jewish Home officials appear wary of the party’s chances of maintaining its alliance with National Union-Tekuma given the ideological differences between the two factions.  In conversation with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, Tekuma sources said,

Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) asserted during a Knesset discussion on anti-IDF NGO Breaking the Silence Wednesday that left-wing incitement on social media has “passed all bounds” in

A new book illustrating each one of the 613 commandments according to Maimonides’ count has been published by artist Archie Rand. Rand began working on the original masterwork for the

Activists from the “Jews do not answer Jews” organization staged a presentation-cum-protest in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square this Wednesday afternoon, reenacting the alleged torture of right-wing activists under the supervision

Russia on Wednesday rejected allegations by human rights group Amnesty International that Moscow’s strikes in Syria have causedmassive civilian casualties, saying its report was made up of “cliches and fakes.” “We examined this report,”

Two of three men injured in the stabbing Wednesday afternoon outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem have succumbed to wounds incurred at the scene. “Despite vigorous efforts to save him, the wounded man

They are too easily pushed off of center stage and out of our consciousness. We commiserate and empathize with their situations but all too soon, sometimes just a day or

The two Arab terrorists who stabbed three Israeli civilians outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon have been identified as a pair of former convicts, both of whom were arrested for terrorism

MK Yoav Kish (Likud) submitted his controversial “Shatulim” (lit. “planted” – Heb. – ed.) bill on Wednesday in an effort to offer the public more transparency about the funding of Israeli

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made a special visit to the Knesset Wednesday, as part of his official state visit to Israel.  Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) who opened the session, noted in

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has accused watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch of “incitement against the Palestinians and the Palestinian curriculum,” the group revealed Wednesday – for PMW’s work exposing the statements against Israelis

The IDF’s Northern Command ordered local farmers on Wednesday to avoid standing for long periods near the border fence as well as to keep their distance from the area as best

Haredi extremists have long dehumanized haredi IDF soldiers by portraying them as pigs, and some even smeared feces on the door of a haredi soldier in June, but on Tuesday night the

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tried to defend himself on Tuesday, after the night before he used a Yiddish cuss word against Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton during a rally.

A 16th-century copy of the Talmud sold at auction Tuesday for $9.3 million in New York, a global record for any piece of Judaica, auctioneers Sothebys announced. The extremely rare Babylonian Talmud had been expected

Amnesty International said on Wednesday Russian air raids have killed hundreds of civilians in Syria, many in targeted strikes that could constitute war crimes, since beginning nearly three months ago. Some attacks “appear to have

Attorney Ariel Atari, a senior criminal defense attorney, told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday that if the admission of one of the Jewish suspects in the lethal Duma arson case was indeed extracted under

Members of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Tuesday evening participated in a memorial in Ramallah for Samir Kuntar, the Hezbollah terrorist who was eliminated in Syria

The UN Security Council on Tuesday renewed a resolution facilitating the cross-border delivery of aid to millions of Syrians, while complaining previous such measures were not seen through on the

The State Department on Tuesday rejected calls by 32 congressional lawmakers, including Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, to close the Washington office of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Reuters reports. 

Aliyah is already expected to reach record highs in Israel next year, with an estimated 30,000 new immigrants set to arrive to the country. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein who helped break

Attorney Adi Keidar of the Honenu legal aid organization, who is representing several Jewish suspects in the lethal Duma arson, sent a stern letter to Jewish Home chairperson Tuesday following the

Iraqi forces closed in on the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s last redoubts in central Ramadi Wednesday to retake the city they lost in May and further shrink the jihadists’ “caliphate.” A day after punching deep

Three people have been wounded in a stabbing attack early Wednesday afternoon at Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate, a popular tourist spot on the western side of the Old City. One of the victims

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) cleared for publication on Wednesday that it has nabbed a Hamas terror cell located in Abu Dis, just adjacent to Jerusalem to the east, that

The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning dismissed the petition of Roman Zadorov, finding him guilty for the 2006 murder of 13-year-old Tair Rada at a school in the town of

Jewish Home chairperson and Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday morning condemned the Jewish suspects being held in the lethal Duma arson case, after a confession was extracted from one

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is defending one of the minor Jewish suspects being investigated in the lethal Duma arson case from July, responded on Wednesday morning to Jewish Home chairman