A synagogue in the center of the French city of Marseille was sold to a Muslim association that is planning to turn it into a mosque. The Or Thora synagogue

US President Barack Obama has shown blatant hypocrisy when it comes to Israel, renowned Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz noted in a scathing op-ed Tuesday – with double standards

The US military is now conducting cyber attacks on the Islamic State group, a general said Tuesday as the Pentagon looks for ways to accelerate the fight against the jihadists. A US-led coalition has

An AIPAC-backed letter to President Barack Obama urging a more “robust” defense package for Israel reportedly has garnered the signatures of 83 senators, including Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz but

An IDF army vehicle came under attack in the hostile Palestinian Arab village of Beit Fajjar, near Gush Etzion, on Tuesday evening, after accidentally straying into the village while using

A suicide bomber who killed three Israelis in an attack in Istanbul did not target the Israeli tour group, Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau has determined. The attacker, who detonated himself on

When you insist people do what you tell them, and give them no choices, do you really love them? Is freedom part of love? Elan shares a beautiful teaching of

Among a number of individuals arrested during clashes between Jews and Muslims on the Temple Mount earlier Tuesday were two members of the Jordanian Waqf, the Islamic trust which administers

An unusual heat wave has sparked several brushfires nationwide Tuesday, as temperatures averaged as high as 39°C (102.2°F) throughout most of the country.  Thee major fires were reported in Gan Yavne, Emek Yizrael,

Israeli doctors performed life-saving surgery on a 3 year-old Palestinian Arab from Gaza last month, they revealed Tuesday, insisting to the press that politics has no effect on human life

The United States’ top intelligence official has warned that the ISIS terrorist group is expanding its operations throughout Europe, and has organized underground networks similar to those behind the recent Paris and Brussels attacks.

(JTA) – Amid a legal fight over the legality of the campaign to boycott Israel in Spain, motions supporting the boycott failed in four Spanish municipalities and passed in four. The

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Maryland goes to the polls Tuesday – one of five states where the two remaining candidates in the Democratic presidential race and the three in the Republican

Over 100,000 people have visited the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) since Passover began Friday night, the Kinneret Authority announced Tuesday. Beaches have been opening and closing according to how quickly they

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s ruling party is promoting bloodthirst against Israel in a student election campaign, Palestinian Media Watch exposed Tuesday. The Fatah movement, run by PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has posted

Israeli firefighters have contained three major brushfires throughout northern Israel, they announced Tuesday evening, after dozens of teams and firefighting planes were called to battle the blazes.  Three major fires

Germany’s leading right-populist party has included the banning of some Jewish and Muslim rituals and symbols in its convention platform. The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, or AFD, in the

Martin Gray, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose memoir about his experiences during World War II inspired a successful TV miniseries, has died at 93. Gray was found in the swimming

A 44-year-old man from Rishon Lezion has been arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks at cars on Route 431. Police say they believe that he was responsible for a number

It was only meant to last 40 years. But the aluminum core at the heart of Israel’s nuclear facility in Dimona, which was purchased from France in the late 1950s,

Israeli-based Elbit Systems has won a $20 million contract to provide advanced tactical radios to a unnamed western European country. The contract will last for three years. The radios are

Jerusalem business owners claim that, despite the expected holiday period economic boom, the tension in the capital is killing its businesses. “I’m barely holding onto my business in Jerusalem,” an

Rabbi Marc Schneier, one of New York’s higher-profile spiritual leaders, is resigning from The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach after 26 years, with one report saying he was leaving under

While the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has done little to hide its malicious anti-Israel hatred, the movement hitherto has succeeded in maintaining the appearance of legitimacy, presenting itself as

President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico called on Mexicans in the United States to follow the Jewish community’s example and unite to defend their interests in an urgent effort to

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump responded angrily on Monday to an announcement by his GOP rivals that Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich were coordinating efforts. Cruz and

An IDF combat soldier of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, also known as the haredi battalion, was sentenced by his commanders to 17 days in detention at a military

(JTA) As a Dutch Jewish couple hiding separately from the Nazis, Emmanuel Joels and Hetty van Son were literally drawn together by a comic book of Emmanuel’s romantic invention. After narrowly avoiding

Likud MK Nava Boker on Monday responded to a letter sent by 83 out of 100 senators, urging US President Barack Obama to increase the annual military aid package to

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint List) has come out with a call, demanding that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas be replaced for being a “bully” towards Arabs who have abandoned the