Ahead of Pope Francis’s Mass prayers on Monday afternoon at the “Room of the Last Supper,” located in the King David’s Tomb Compound, the liberal group Hiddush – Freedom of

As the warm summery weather continues to advance, snakes have apparently become more active as evidenced in yet another snake bite victim reported on Monday. This time the perpetrator was

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday accepted an invitation from Pope Francis to go to the Vatican for a joint prayer for peace with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Peres

A terrorist released by Israel in the deal to return Elhanan Tannenbaum from his Hezbollah captors was killed in fighting in Syria this week. A report on the website Lebanon

The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office Monday said a probe had been opened into “terrorist assassination” in the weekend shootings by a lone gunman at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four dead, according

A Knesset effort to lower the price of cars for Israelis may be thwarted by the manufacturers of the cars themselves. In a letter to the Knesset Economics Committee, which

Residents in a tiny Spanish town voted on Sunday to ditch the town’s name – Castrillo Matajudios, or Castrillo Kill Jews. According to AFP, the residents voted 29-19 in favor

The Palestinian Arab community in Montreal on Sunday marked “Nakba Day”, the day on which Arabs mark what they view as the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of

Ukrainian chocolate baron Petro Poroshenko claimed a resounding victory on Sunday in Ukraine’s presidential election and immediately vowed to end a bloody pro-Russian uprising that thwarted voting across swathes of

A new poll shows that a majority of Israelis are opposed to further withdrawals from Judea and Samaria. In a poll taken by the Geocartographia organization on behalf of Ariel

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky on Sunday expressed his condolences to the families of those who lost loved ones in the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels Saturday. “I

On the Pope’s travel agenda in his journeys in the the Holy Land is a visit to the Dehaishe refugee camp, a hotbed of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish terrorism. On his

The City of Ottawa has no plans to remove an exhibit at City Hall that glorifies barbaric child-killing terrorists, despite the Israeli ambassador’s protests, conveyed in a meeting with Mayor

Belgium’s Jewish community is reeling from Saturday night’s horrific shooting attack at the Jewish Museum, which left a museum employee and two Israeli tourists dead and other critically injured.  Locals

The victims of the horrific shooting attack in Brussels’ Jewish Museum have been identified Sunday morning.  Two of the victims were Israeli tourists, a couple from Tel Aviv in their

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday night strongly condemned the shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, saying the attack was directly caused by incitement. “This act of murder is

One person was killed and three people were injured overnight Saturday in an explosion and fire in Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood. United Hatzalah paramedics who were called to the scene treated

The two Israelis killed in shooting attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium are Emanuel and Miriam Riba, 54 and 53, from Tel Aviv, authorities announced Sunday. The couple leaves behind

France’s President Francois Hollande said on Sunday there was no doubt about the “anti-Semitic character” of the attack on a Jewish museum in Belgium which left three dead, including a Frenchwoman. “The anti-Semitic character of

Two Jewish men were attacked outside Paris Saturday night, French Interior Minister Bernard Caseneuve announced Sunday, as they were leaving a Creteil synagogue.  Caseneuve ordered police around France to increase security

Islamist rebels in Syria carried out four separate suicide bombing attacks against Syrian army positions, killing “dozens” and wounding many more, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The

Nearly 400 mainly young Jews from Moldova and the southern Ukraine have gathered in the city of Chisinau, May 23-25, for a unique purpose: to learn about their Jewish heritage.

IDF forces prevented a terrorist attack in the town of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion Friday night. On Friday night, patrols on shift in watch towers in the Etzion region

Three people were killed and one badly injured when a gunman attacked the Jewish Museum in the center of Brussels on Saturday, authorities said. “Two women and one man are dead, a third

The stakes are high in Ukraine, international media reports Saturday, as both Moscow and Kiev made bold statements ahead of Ukrainian elections.  Russian President Vladimir Putin reassured the public Saturday

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has responded with “horror” to today’s deadly shooting at Belgium’s Jewish Museum, condemning the “murderous attack at the Jewish museum in central Brussels today” and

Pope Francis made an urgent plea Saturday for peace in war-torn Syria as he kicked off a three-day pilgrimage to the Middle East, AFP reports. And he called for religious freedom to be upheld throughout a

Voters from three Eastern European nations and Malta go to the polls Saturday in European Parliament elections expected to boost eurosceptic parties despite a surprise setback for Dutch populists.  

One of the people who were wounded on the Mavi Marmara vessel during the 2010 flotilla passed away on Friday, four years after the incident, Turkish media reported. The man

More than 600 students from Yeshiva University’s (YU) undergraduate schools were presented with their degrees at YU’s 83rd commencement exercises, held at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey