Moderate Dutch Muslims on Thursday blasted a plan by anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders to broadcast cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on national television, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The Muslims branded

A senior official from Yemen’s Houthi group on Thursday said the movement will attend UN-backed peace talks in Geneva without preconditions, Reuters reported. The talks are planned for June 14.

At least 14 civilians, including seven children, were killed on Thursday when Syrian regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on northern Aleppo province, a monitoring group told AFP. The attacks came

An exhibit screening an offensive video of naked men and women playing tag in the very same gas chamber where Nazis murdered Jews in the Holocaust is on display at the Krakow modern

Lots of different things happen in this week’s sedra. A whole bunch of good things…and then things turn bad. Between, we have a unique two-verse portion with a unique pair of

Turkish authorities have detained a female Russian student as she attempted to cross into war-torn Syria, Russian authorities said Friday. Moscow State University student Varvara Karaulova, 19, was found in the Turkish border town

Even as talks over Iran’s nuclear program wind down ahead of a June 30 deadline, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a volley of searing invective against the US on

The Druze community in Israel has reached out to the US this week, begging Washington to protect Druze across the border in Syria.  US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro met

A Dutch biker famed for fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group alongside Kurdish peshmergas in Iraq last year has been killed in a streetcar accident in Amsterdam, his club said Friday. Nomad Ron, 46, a

France’s foreign minister on Friday said Paris was “firmly opposed” to any boycott of Israel as a row rages over French telecom group Orange’s decision to withdraw its brand from the Jewish state. “Although it

Rock and firebomb terror attacks against the Mount of Olives Cemetery in eastern Jerusalem continue unabated, with the Arab assailants just recently destroying a massive number of gravestones and even torching

The debacle over the Orange telecom company’s boycott of Israel has deepened Friday, as the CEO of Israeli telecom firm Partner, which uses the Orange franchise name, stated that he

Yachad – Ha’am Itanu chairperson former MK Eli Yishai has been largely silent since running on a joint list with Otzma Yehudit and just missing out in the last elections

Grassroots Zionist student group Im Tirtzu has launched a campaign against what it terms “the anti-Zionist trend spreading within the Bar Association.” The campaign focuses on Attorney Efi Naveh, head

At the swearing-in ceremony of recruits to the elite Givati Brigade at the Kotel (Western Wall) on Thursday evening, the IDF Chief Educational Officer Brig. Gen. Avner Paz-Tzuk will give

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday lost no time in condemning the French-based cellular phone provider Orange’s decision to cut ties with Israel, after its CEO made anti-Semitic comments the day before

Turkish police detained a young French woman who crossed back into Turkey after joining Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in neighboring Syria, a security official said on Thursday. During a three-month stay in Syria,

Ahead of local elections on Sunday, the Turkish crackdown on the embarrassing revelation that trucks of its National Intelligence Organization (MIT) tried to smuggle weapons to Syria evidently to arm rebel jihadists last January

The French cell phone company Orange announced on Thursday afternoon that it has decided to halt its operations in Israel and end its partnership with the Israeli company Partner, which

Several influential Sunni tribal leaders in the western Anbar province that is Iraq’s largest on Wednesday swore loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. The pledge was read aloud in

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to add Israel to an annual “List of Shame” of children’s rights violators, AFP reported, citing more than 500 children

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely on Thursday evening called on the French government to condemn the French-based cellular phone provider Orange’s decision to cut ties with Israel. “I have instructed ministry officials

US President Barack Obama’s administration is scrambling to quell concerns ahead of a Congressional review of the impending Iran nuclear deal that is approaching a June 30 deadline, but one US Senator reports

Israeli news media are reporting that a major development has taken place in the ongoing investigation against lawyer Ronel Fisher, former Tel Aviv District Attorney Ruth David, and former top

The catastrophic floods that struck Houston last week wrought particularly intense damage in the city’s Jewish community in the southwestern neighborhood of Willow Meadows. Within hours of the storm’s end, Yeshiva University (YU)

In response to the announcement Thursday by French-based cell phone company Orange that it wants to cut ties with Partner, the Israeli company that franchises its name in the Jewish state,

The IDF and Border Police vacated the premises of the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Yitzhar on Tuesday, ending a year-long occupation of the site – and leaving behind severe

A Muslim who was fatally shot on Tuesday after waving a military knife at law enforcement officers in Boston was originally plotting to behead Jewish blogger Pamela Geller, law enforcement

Former British prime minister Tony Blair is to take on a new role fighting anti-Semitism after stepping down as a Middle East peace envoy, he announced on Thursday. According to AFP, Blair will serve

Abu Mohammad al-Golani, the chief of Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate the Al-Nusra Front, on Wednesday described the rival Islamic State (ISIS) group’s self-proclaimed caliphate as “illegitimate”, AFP reports. The comments came