Israel is exporting $48.5 million in matzah and wine to Jewish communities across the globe, the Economy and Industry Ministry revealed Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday.  The US imports

The terror wave may be slowing down, but IDF officials fear it may be the quiet before the storm, anticipating a spike in attacks during the Pesach holiday season and

With the recent “wave of terror” in Israel beginning, by all accounts, to wind down, much of the media’s attention has already begun to shift away, onto the next story. But

The Passover holiday brings with it a sense of cultural pride and an opportunity to rejoice with family. During this annual celebration, the Jewish nation unites to commemorate liberation from

The government may be in the hands of Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri – so says Professor Avi Diskin, head of the School of Management, Governance and Law at the

The current terror wave is national-religious magazine Mekor Rishon‘s fault, journalist Reno Tzror claimed Wednesday.  ”This ‘Intifada of the few’ with knives and scissors – which is fading away these days, at least to

Israel’s police department welcomed its first Muslim Deputy Commissioner, Jamal Hachrush, in a ceremony on Wednesday. A native of the village of Kfar Kana, Hachrush has served in the Israeli

A poll carried out by the Ruderman Family Foundation has found that only 6% of Israelis see Ted Cruz as the most pro-Israel candidate in the 2016 presidential race. About

IDF Civil Administration forces accompanied by police officers arrived at Beit El in the Binyamin region of Samaria in the middle of the night on Tuesday night, where they demolished

The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) recently broke the news that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had hired an avowed anti-Zionist as his national Jewish outreach director. Simone Zimmerman is a supporter

Hundreds of college students gathered across North America and Israel Saturday to conclude Shabbat with #SolidarityHavdalah, a campaign to show unity with their European peers facing anti-Semitism. The students came

Three top members of Congress petitioned Iran to let them enter the country and inspect nuclear sites to ensure compliance with the nuclear deal, ahead of a speech by a

India’s approximately 5,000-member Jewish community is renewing its request for official government recognition as a minority group, submitting an application to the country’s minority affairs ministry. Official recognition would make

A Tel Aviv high school principal will no longer send pupils on an annual educational trip to former concentration camps in Poland because of its perceived “ultranationalist” influence on the

A number of UK Labour Party activists are pushing to change party rules to make it easier to ban anti-Semites from the party, which has been battered by a series of

Panic ensued in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning as an Egged bus caught fire, causing all passengers to be evacuated. The bus lit up while driving along Harozmarin Street, located in

A hundred members of Iraq’s parliament held a sit-in on Wednesday, demanding that the volatile country’s president, prime minister and parliamentary speaker all be removed. The parliamentary sit-in comes after

The public reenactment of the Passover Sacrifice, which has become a popular spring-time event over the past few years, will be getting closer to the actual site of the Temple

The Islamic State (ISIS) group’s ranks have been pared back by international and local military action in Iraq and Syria to their lowest level since Washington began monitoring the group,

The United States on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to peacekeeping efforts in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the White House said, amid reports that the Pentagon has is planning to cut the

(JTA) — A Nazi-looted painting by the Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani is being sequestered in Geneva after its ownership was revealed in the Panama Papers. The ownership of the 1918

The United States military is dropping “cyber bombs” on the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group for the first time as part of a stepped-up coordinated effort that has put increasing

A day after cutting the funding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian Authority (PA) has done the same to the Democratic Front for the

(JTA) — Hillel International will launch operations in Poland, the organization serving Jewish college students announced. The opening of Hillel Warsaw is scheduled for April 18, on the eve of

Iran and Italy signed a series of bilateral agreements during a visit by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to Tehran on Tuesday, signaling both countries’ desire to restore ties following

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told The Jewish Week in an interview on Tuesday that “it is unfair to put the onus on Israel” for the lack of progress on

The Abayudaya community of Uganda is one step closer to being recognized as Jewish by the Israeli government. The community are not Jewish according to Halakha (Jewish law), as they converted

A Boulder man accused of sending letters containing a suspicious white powder to two Jewish organizations in the Colorado city pleaded guilty. Jeffery Thomas Klinkel, 34, pleaded guilty late last