France is set to close as many as 160 mosques in the coming months, a top imam in the country said Wednesday. Hassan El Alaoui, who is the chaplain for

(AFP) The Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS or IS) has strengthened its grip in its Libyan stronghold Sirte, as new recruits and foreign fighters join its ranks while world attention focuses on

(AFP) Abu Malak has spent 17 years working at a petrol station at a major junction near Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians cross paths, but lately there’s been a change. “Some

“Not giving a get (bill of divorce according to Jewish law) is abuse of the highest degree,” said Martin Friedlander, a matrimonial lawyer and one of the founding members of

Days after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he thinks it would be possible to repair the strained ties between his country and Israel, an Israeli official made the first

A campus group at the University of Michigan has called for a Jewish student to be removed from serving on the school’s student government after he “verbally abused” a pro-Palestinian student at

The United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released part of its report on Iran, and it shows that many of critics’ fears were justified. The IAEA says it

American Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind castigated US President Barak Obama as well as Secretary of State John Kerry, and the entire Obama administration, and said that “they

The lead vocalist of English alternative band Radiohead accused YouTube and its parent company, Google, of profiting from stolen art just like the Nazis did during World War II.  “People continue to

Islamic State (ISIS) released a new scare video Wednesday, this time targeting the Russians.  The video, entitled “You Shall be Disappointed and Humiliated O Russians,” shows the beheading of an alleged

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met at the Knesset on Wednesday with an official delegation from Vietnam led by Deputy Prime Minister Hoàng Trung Hải. At the start of the meeting, a

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to use sports as a means of glorifying terror, Palestinian Media Watch reports Wednesday – this time, naming a tennis tournament after two terrorists and calling attacks

The auction of a flag from an iconic ship that tried to take Jewish Holocaust survivors to what would later become Israel was cancelled Wednesday, after it was bought by a public institution, AFP reports.  The SS

Be’er Sheva police have busted a high school gambling ring, arresting 32 students on charges of setting up a casino on school premises, it was cleared for publication Wednesday.  Police arrested the youths

A senior United Nations (UN) official expressed concern Wednesday over Israel’s failure to bring to justice those behind an arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family, including a baby, AFP reports.  The mother, father

14 people were murdered and at least 17 injured on Wednesday in a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center, a social services center in San Bernardino, California.  San Bernadino is

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded on Wednesday to a UN report showing Iran conducted activities “relevant” to developing nuclear arms at least until the end of 2003, saying the report

Britain’s parliament voted on Wednesday night in favor of joining international air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) group targets in Syria, AFP reports. The move proposed by Prime Minister David

The United States strongly denied on Wednesday a Russian claim that the Turkish government buys smuggled Syrian oil from the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group. A State Department spokesman admitted that there was

Tiberias police continue to probe on Wednesday evening the motivations of a suspect arrested earlier in the day for stealing siddurim (prayerbooks) from various synagogues in the city and burning them. 

Last week the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) at Kings College in London silenced questions about Israel and cut off renowned author Rabbi Shmuel Boteach’s lecture. The moderators for the event

Israeli swimmer Yakov Toumarkin won a silver medal in the 200 meter backstroke on Wednesday night at the 18th European Short Course Swimming Championships.  The medal was all the sweeter as

The Central Council of Jews in Germany said Wednesday it does not object to the publication of a critical, scientifically-annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” scheduled for January. “Knowledge of ‘Mein Kampf’ is

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must supply a complete list of his conversations with American businessman and Israel Hayom owner Sheldon Adelson, the Jerusalem District Court ruled Wednesday.  The decision, which also includes Netanyahu’s conversation with the paper’s

Turkey once again showed it can’t take a joke, as a Turkish court ordered a panel of experts to assess the character of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in the port city of Sirte, located in northern Libya, are learning to fly planes using at least one flight simulator according to military officials in

A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seeking to provide support to the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in Syria, where he allegedly hoped to train fighters for the jihadist network. Nicholas

For an Israeli start-up, one answer to global warming is blowing in the wind. The company called NewCO2Fuels, or NCF, has been developing its own version of a technology that allows heat-trapping

The Palestinian Authority’s security services in recent days busted an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell that had planned to attack IDF soldiers in Judea and Samaria, Kol Yisrael radio reported on

An historical synagogue in Australia has been defaced with Nazi and Islamic symbols, the J-Wire Jewish news website reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the coordinator of the historical