This week Ira and Rod discuss Passover and the Counting of the Omer based on the seven emotional traits, and physical characteristics that we need to work on and meditate on

The lifeless body of a 22-year-old Israeli was found adjacent to an abandoned church in Berlin on Tuesday bearing the signs of serious violence, according to local German news reports. Among the

Spanish police arrested nine people in the Catalonia region on Wednesday suspected of links to the Islamic State (ISIS) group, authorities said, the latest such raids as European nations seek to stop jihadist recruitment. The operation

Sepp Blatter, president of the world soccer federation FIFA, on Tuesday rejected the Palestinian Authority (PA) attempt to have Israel blocked from international competitions. While attending a Confederation of African Football

Joining the outpouring of criticism against the Iranian nuclear framework deal announced last week on Tuesday were legendary former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz, who warned

A second victim has been claimed by the deadly stampede that occurred at the Bnei Brak funeral of leading haredi Rabbi Shmuel Wosner on Saturday night, after 18-year-old Yitzhak Samet was

A terror attack took place in the Binyamin region, north of Jerusalem, Wednesday morning.  An IDF soldier suffered serious wounds when he was stabbed in his upper body, according to initial reports. Reports

Rahm Emanuel won his re-election contest Tuesday night and defeated challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia to remain in charge of Chicago for four more years. “I have had the good fortune

In a move that may shake up the agreements reached between the US and Iran last week, a top US official announced on Tuesday that America will take a more

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul officially announced his presidential campaign on Tuesday, becoming the second Republican candidate to do so ahead of the 2016 elections after Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) became the first late

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has hailed last week’s framework deal over Iran’s nuclear program, saying it will serve to strengthen the Islamic Republic’s position in the Middle East. “Iran will

Tragedy struck during the intermediate days of Pesach (Passover) during which many Israelis are on vacation, as one 40-year-old hiker enjoying the holiday fell to his death on Tuesday afternoon. The

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has a long history of broadcasting images of Palestinian Arab women ululating in cries of joy over their dead “martyr” terrorist relatives, particularly in cases of mothers celebrating

A New York resident has been charged with providing support to Islamic State jihadists in Syria, the Justice Department said Tuesday, after three suspected co-conspirators pleaded not guilty to similar

Less than a week after announcing their “framework deal” over Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran and Washington have been “irritating” each other with conflicting reports about the details of that agreement,

Iraq has exhumed the remains of 47 people believed to have been massacred by jihadists from mass graves in Tikrit, the human rights ministry’s spokesman said Tuesday. “The number of remains that were exhumed

A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire in a shipyard on Tuesday, according to reports by local Russian news agencies cited by Reuters. The fire took place on a 949 Antei submarine

Israeli security sources acknowledged on Tuesday that the death of a Spanish UN peacekeeper in Lebanon fighting in January was caused by Israeli fire.   “The Spanish soldier was indeed

The Polish Jewish community faces a somewhat different struggle with assimilation or acculturation that other Diaspora communities face. According to Rabbi Yona Daniel Simons, former Rosh Kollel of Poland who

Less than two years ago, Ambassador Yehuda Avner was a guest on this show, and he was at his usual excellent and immaculate self. He passed away about two weeks

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday it is ready to offer Palestinian factions its firepower to support their battle with the Islamic State group  (ISIS) in the Yarmouk camp on

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, in a meeting fraught with tension after Erdogan accused Iran of trying to “dominate the Middle East” via its

A mere three months after the lethal Islamist terror attacks in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters and a kosher supermarket, heads of the Muslim community in France are demanding “to double the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu kept up his criticism of the framework nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, pointing out that it fails to address Tehran’s long-range missile arsenal that he argues is meant to enable

British Jews will overwhelmingly vote for the center-right Conservative party in upcoming UK general elections, a poll has shown, spurning the left-wing Labor party over its increasingly hostile policies towards Israel. A

Islamic State (ISIS) forces this week have taken over the Yarmouk neighborhood in southern Damascus, which is popularly known as a “Palestinian refugee camp,” with reports indicating ISIS has been conducting arrests and acts

US President Barack Obama has rejected a call by Israel for any nuclear agreement with Iran to be conditional on Tehran’s recognition of the Jewish state’s right to exist, branding

President Barack Obama has admitted, in an NPR interview that has now been published in full, that the deal agreed upon with Iran would enable Iran to break out to

Operation Protective Edge had an unexpected impact on the IDF, Channel 2 reports Tuesday – a wave of women requesting to be drafted as observers at security outposts and war

Integrating the haredi population into the IDF and the workforce was a central focus of the 19th Knesset, with several politicians – particularly Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett – placing