Acclaimed American actor Al Pacino has received staunch support from the Anti-Defamation League over his decision to bow out of a play adapted from the novel of a well-known supporter of

More than 130 ex-Nazis, including SS guards, may have collected over $20.2 million in retirement benefits, according to the Social Security Administration’s inspector general. The I-G stated that, of those funds, $5.7 million were paid to

Hollywood actor Michael Enright has become the latest westerner to join Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi group. The UK-born Enright – who played minor roles in several box office

Freshman Likud MK Oren Hazan will demand to be appointed deputy foreign minister, his associates informed Channel 2 on Sunday.  The announcement comes as coalition party leaders gear up to appoint members of their

Hamas is planning to kidnap more Israeli soldiers, a spokesperson for the terror group said Sunday. According to Abu Obaideh, kidnapping IDF soldiers is one of the best ways to

Although the law proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to increase the punishments for rock throwers got all the headlines Sunday, the Ministerial Law Committee approved a second law proposed

Iranian-backed Shia Islamist militiamen burned alive a Sunni man in Iraq, in a gruesome reenactment of sorts of ISIS’s own torching of a Jordanian pilot earlier this year. Members of the

The head of the Shvut Yisrael Yeshiva in Efrat was booted off the Temple Mount Sunday morning – for the “crime” of closing his eyes. In a Facebook post, activist

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday the first bill submitted by Minister Ayelet Shaked, stiffening the punishments and penalties meted out to individuals convicted of rock throwing. The

An Israeli businessman in Brazil was killed last week as he tried to resist a pair of robbers. Police in the northern Brazilian city of Belém said that the Israeli

The Likud party on Saturday night once again denied that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had offered the Foreign Ministry to Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid. Lapid, speaking earlier to Channel

A day after withdrawing his request to have Israel suspended from FIFA, the head of the Palestine Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, on Saturday clarified he intends to try to have

United States Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday that his son, Beau, has died of brain cancer, according to The Associated Press (AP). Beau Biden was 46. “It is with

Amnesty International made waves last Tuesday with its report detailing how Hamas executed citizens in Gaza last summer in war crimes at the close of Operation Protective Edge, but just what

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group launched an assault on the largely Kurdish city of Hasakeh in northeast Syria on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack came a day after

Israel’s new tourism minister Yariv Levin (Likud) held his first working meeting Saturday evening, notably choosing to host Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and CEO Shlomi Wormstein at his Jerusalem

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group Saturday demolished a prison in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitor said, eliminating what was for decades one of the country’s most feared detention centers. The jail was

Yesh Atid chairperson Yair Lapid struck out at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government on Channel 2‘s “Meet the Press” program, and announced that despite having nosedived in elections from 19 seats

Amid accelerated international efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, the UN atomic agency on Friday reported that work on an assessment of allegations that Tehran worked on atomic

Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub is submitting an amendment to the PFA’s proposal to ban Israel from FIFA, minutes ahead of the vote itself. The vote was not expected

Syrian troops retreated as regime warplanes bombarded Al Qaeda-led rebel fighters on Friday, a day after the insurgents overran the last government-held city in the key northwestern province of Idlib.  

Rabbi Eugene Kwalwasser, a well-loved figure in the New Jersey area, spent four decades as an educator, with 27 of those as principal of Yavneh Academy in New Jersey, now

A boys soccer team from ISNA Private Islamic High School in Canada’s Brampton refused to finish a tournament match on Tuesday, since the opposite team had two female players. The

The United States on Friday officially dropped Cuba from its blacklist as a state sponsor of terrorism, in a landmark move aimed at paving the way towards normalizing ties frozen

A Syrian Christian fighter has beheaded an Islamic State group (ISIS) jihadist to avenge people “executed” by the group in northeastern Syria, a monitor said on Friday, according to AFP.

Arizona police stepped up security on Friday near a mosque for a planned outdoor protest by an anti-Islam group that includes drawing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Reuters reported. The

Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee will officially enter the presidential race on behalf of the Democrats on June 3, a source with knowledge of his plans told the Politico

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group on Friday claimed responsibility for car bombings at two upscale Baghdad hotels that officials said killed at least nine people and wounded dozens, AFP

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday blasted the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its provocation, after Palestinian Football Association chairman Jibril Rajoub withdrew his bid to have Israel banned from FIFA.