In advance of the upcoming Sukkot holiday season, Israeli distributors of the four species (arba minim) are predicting that the shmitta Sabbatical year will take a very heavy toll on their sales,

A top Iranian official has said that Iran will sign a deal to purchase advances S-300 missile systems from Russia by next week. Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan

An elderly Jewish woman was assaulted while visiting the Temple Mount Tuesday morning – and police did nothing to protect her or arrest her attacker.  Brenda Rubin, a resident of

A second explosion has been reported in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, just a day after a bomb attack at a popular tourist site killed more than 20 people

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin responded to reports Monday that some of the rabbis on the new independent conversion courts do not require converts to obligate themselves to a full religious lifestyle.  Riskin, the Chief Rabbi

More than 300 liberal American rabbis wrote members of Congress Monday urging them to support the international nuclear deal with Iran, signaling the US Jewish community is split over the

As many as 27 people have been reported killed and dozens wounded in an explosion near a shrine and popular shopping mall in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.  But, “no Israelis

Israel denied reports circling the Arab world on Monday of long-term ceasefire discussions being held in Qatar’s capital of Doha on behalf of the Jewish state and Hamas.  One report suggested former

The fate of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is still undecided but it will not leave the country open to US influence, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday.

Britain’s Labor Party has said it will launch an official investigation after dozens of anti-Semitic hate messages were sent to non-Jewish MPs who criticized the front-runner in the party’s leadership race.

As many as 27 people have been reported killed and dozens wounded in an explosion near a shrine in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, as the death toll continues to rise.

American Jewish musician Matisyahu on Monday responded for the first time to his being disinvited from a music festival in Spain due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The State Department in Washington on Monday said it was too soon to tell if a blast at a renowned shrine in Bangkok that killed at least 16 people was

Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, on Monday said no agreement was reached at a last-ditch meeting with a nationalist party to form a coalition alliance, reports The Associated Press (AP).

The United States condemned on Monday Syrian airstrikes on a rebel-held town that left nearly 100 dead, and insisted President Bashar al-Assad must go. “Yesterday’s air strikes, following its other recent market bombings

Two hundred and thirty two new immigrants to Israel departed New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday, aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight.  The flight was facilitated in

Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday told CNN that he plans a two-day trip to Israel. He’ll depart Tuesday. He said the trip to the

Turkey and the United States said Sunday that Washington would withdraw its Patriot missile batteries from the country in October, after bolstering Ankara’s air defenses against threats from Syria’s civil

Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson accused President Barack Obama Sunday of being anti-Semitic, as evidenced by Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Carson told Fox News Sunday, in response

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction is up in arms over reports of long-term ceasefire discussions held in Qatar’s capital of Doha, negotiated by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Sunday expressed “outrage” and “utter bewilderment” at news that a music festival in Spain had disinvited American Jewish musician Matisyahu for

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that

A capital murder trial will begin this week for a Missouri man who claims he was morally obligated to kill three people last year outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish

Around 50 hard-line students and activists in Iran staged a rally, calling on the parliament to reject the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last month, The Associated Press

Gerald Molen, the producer of Schindler’s List, has responded to 98 prominent Jews in Hollywood who published an open letter in support of the nuclear deal with Iran, according to

Danish police said Sunday they had arrested a man on suspicion of torching a mosque in Copenhagen earlier in the day, AFP reported. “At 11:31 a.m. (0931 GMT), the police

The toll in Syrian government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100 Monday, as the UN’s humanitarian chief expressed horror and appealed for civilians to be protected. Sunday’s series of raids on

The state on Monday submitted to the Supreme Court its response to the release petition of Mohammad Allaan, a jailed Islamic Jihad terrorist who has been hunger-striking more than 60 days.

Just three months before the 20th anniversary of the nationally traumatic assassination of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a new book about the murder has been published – once again opening

A terrorist stabbing attack was thwarted Monday afternoon near the town of Tapuach in Samaria. The terrorist approached Border Patrol officers standing at Tapuach Junction, and attempted to attack him with a