Instead of allowing Israelis to fly on its planes, Kuwait’s national airline – Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) – has halted all its inter-European routes, effective immediately. The Lawfare Project announced
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Syria’s frontline city of Aleppo, where fighting threatens to unravel international peace efforts. France
NEW YORK (JTA) — Enrollment in New York State’s Jewish day schools and yeshivas increased by 4.4 percent last year. According to data compiled by the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is quitting the race following his latest defeat to Donald Trump in Indiana, Politico reported Tuesday night, citing Cruz’s campaign manager Jeff Roe. Cruz later
(JTA) — A 13-year-old boy who allegedly drew a swastika on a Boston-area school football field will not face criminal charges. The teen, an eighth-grader at the Georgetown Middle/High School,
A Brussels court on Tuesday handed jail terms of up to seven years to 26 members of a group that recruited fighters for Syria and had included one of the
The British Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn, suffered another embarrassment on Tuesday, after Corbyn was praised by the Hamas terrorist group for refusing to condemn both it and
The man helping to lead the British Labour party’s inquiry into anti-Semitism is a named supporter of a group which has dismissed allegations of Jew-hatred in the party as “baseless
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Tuesday there would be “repercussions” if his regime flouts a new ceasefire being negotiated with Moscow for the battered
(JTA) – A long-thought lost model used by grateful Jewish workers to create a gold ring for Oskar Schindler has been donated to the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Centre, where it
(JTA) – The Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor, Michigan, was evacuated after an unknown person called in a bomb threat. The unidentified caller on Monday morning said a
(JTA) – Prominent scholars of Jewish demography dismissed the findings of a newly published genetic study suggesting that today’s Ashkenazi Jews originate from converts to Judaism in what today is
(JTA) – Italy’s national Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, or MEIS, under fitful development in the northeast city of Ferrara for more than a decade, has received a
The ISIS terrorist group regularly produces slick propaganda videos glorifying its so-called Islamic State or Caliphate, often featuring battle scenes portraying their fighters as courageous and near-invincible. The reality, however,
President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Dr. Moshe Kantor met with Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in Stockholm Tuesday, where they discussed many issues of shared concern, including the
The IDF recently reduced its activities in the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority’s security (“Area A”), Channel 10 reports Tuesday night. The reduction in security coordination may have helped cause Tuesday
(JTA) – When documentary photographer Richard Schofield stumbled upon a trove of unidentified prewar photographs in September 2013 in the storage room of the Sugihara House museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, he knew
The IDF on Tuesday night returned to the Palestinian Authority (PA) the body of the terrorist who had earlier injured three IDF soldiers in a car ramming attack near the
On Tuesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Sara Netanyahu met with the six Holocaust survivors who will light the torches at the start of the state ceremony at Yad Vashem Wednesday. This
Amid rumors that Bruce Springsteen will perform in Tel Aviv this summer, he and his E Street band have come under fire from supporters of boycotting Israel. On Monday, band guitarist Steven Van
The two suspects in the slaying of Jerusalemite Ofir Gross have been named Tuesday afternoon, hours after it was revealed he was killed during a botched robbery. On Sunday, authorities announced
The 2016 winners of the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism’s “Spirit of Zionism” awards have been announced Tuesday, and will be honored in a special ceremony on Jerusalem Day next month. This
Unidentified persons vandalized a Holocaust monument in Lithuania on the anniversary of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s birthday. The monument in Vilkaviskis, a city located 90 miles west of the capital
Terrorists opened fire on IDF soldiers near the Gaza Belt community of Nahal Oz Tuesday, hours after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the area. No injuries were reported, but engineering
A Polish ultranationalist burned a poster of the mayor of Wroclaw wearing a kippah during a protest march. Roman Zielinski, who authored a book titled “How I fell in love
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin received a standing ovation Tuesday during a unique meeting of French politicians, Jewish leaders and Jewish, Muslim and Christian youth. President Rivlin hosted the delegation today at his
The Knesset Finance Committee awarded one million shekel ($264,782) to Holocaust survivors Tuesday, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The funds, which were from a 2015 budget surplus, were
(AFP) Russia said Tuesday it hoped a new ceasefire could be announced within hours for Syria’s battered city of Aleppo, where fresh fighting left at least 16 dead including in
The Jewish extremist found to be the ringleader of a group that beat and burned alive a Palestinian teenager in 2014 has been handed a life sentence plus 20 extra
Once reviled as the “most hated man in the country”, attorney turned radio host Yoram Sheftel is something of an enigma. Lambasted in the late 1980s for representing John Demjanjuk,