A senior Saudi cleric has banned selfie photos with cats, even as another leading cleric in the oil-rich Gulf state has banned the use of Snapchat filters for selfies –

Finance Minister and Kulanu party chairman Moshe Kahlon released an official statement Friday, after Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabay (Kulanu) resigned from politics in protest of Yisrael Beytenu joining the

Yesh Atid chairperson MK Yair Lapid backed Jewish Home chairperson Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday, over his demand to have military secretaries appointed to every member of the Security Cabinet

Dorit Sherman, a resident of the mixed Jewish and Arab city of Lod, was walking on the streets of her city several months ago when two Arab youths rode past

Temperatures will drop significantly over the weekend, forecasters say, after a few days of hot weather. Temperatures will range Friday from 15°C (59°F) – 22°C (71.6°F) in Jerusalem;  20°C (68°F) – 24°C (75.2°F) in

A sixth man was charged Friday in connection to Australia’s so-called “tinnie terror” case, in which a group of young men allegedly hoped to travel overseas on a small boat to join jihadists. Australian

US President Barack Obama’s administration has not exercised its right under US law to sanction the Russian sale of an advanced weapon system to Iran, leading some in Congress to

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apologized for condemning an incident which three Arabs raped a 20-year-old mentally disabled Jewish girl for “nationalistic” motives Thursday night, saying Friday that he “regretted” commenting on it. “As reported,

Bangladesh police Thursday on charged a senior opposition official with sedition for allegedly plotting against the state when he met an Israeli government adviser, an official said, according to AFP.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday was unfazed by a State Department inspector general’s report that concluded she violated agency rules by using a private email server. Speaking in

(JTA) — A New Jersey court has ruled unconstitutional state grants to two religious institutions — including $10.6 million to one of North America’s largest haredi Orthodox yeshivas. The ruling

Police in Germany are investigating two suspected British neo-Nazis photographed giving a Hitler salute in Buchenwald concentration camp, where more than 56,000 people were murdered, The Telegraph reported Thursday. The

Despite their previous disagreements, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Thursday that he will attend the Republican convention and, if asked, speak on the behalf of presumptive nominee Donald Trump. “My

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Non-nuclear U.S. sanctions against Iran and its allies have led to Hezbollah being in “its worst financial shape in decades,” the top sanctions enforcement official told Congress.

Syria’s devastating war has killed more than 280,000 people, a monitoring group said on Thursday in a new toll for the five-year conflict. The toll of 282,283 includes 81,436 civilians,

Officials in the Israeli political system are trying to convince Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett to back the appointment of Avigdor Liberman as Defense Minister, Channel 2 News reported Thursday

(JTA) — A New York Times editor who has received a deluge of anti-Semitic tweets from supporters of Donald Trump is calling on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to denounce

A federal judge on Thursday backed a request by one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides from her time at the State Department to prevent video of her testimony in ongoing

(JTA) An employee of a Rockland County Hassidic grand rebbe has been arrested and charged with secretly taking photos of couples having intercourse in a New Jersey motel. Nachman Breier,

What Kivi Bernhard has to say is intriguing enough for Bill Gates to postpone the date of a prestigious Microsoft conference. You too can hear Kivi speak, and talk to

Deputy Chief of Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood fire station, Rashaf Roni Sonino, accused the haredi community for the numerous fires which broke out across the capital on Thursday. Dozens of fire

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has now officially been crowned as the Republican presidential candidate for 2016, as delegate counts show he has passed the 1,237 threshold needed to secure

Unnamed diplomatic sources in Jerusalem were quoted on Thursday night revealing that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is shifting ever closer to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and against Israel – and

The World Health Organization (WHO) called for an investigation into alleged abuses of “mental, physical and environmental health” rights by Israel, the only country singled out during the U.N. agency’s

Thousands of Jews visited the tomb of Shimon Hatzadik located north of the Old City in Jerusalem on Wednesday night and Thursday for Lag B’Omer, which marks the passing of

President Reuven Rivlin marked Jordan’s Independence Day on Thursday by speaking at a reception hosted in Tel Aviv by Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat. Rivlin began by speaking in

Germany’s Culture Minister Monika Grutters has announced her idea to integrate Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, rabbi of Berlin’s Jewish community, in the commission seeking to return art stolen by the Nazis to the

Donald Trump, who has passed the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination, on Thursday fired back at President Barack Obama, after the latter said that Trump

Fire broke out in the famous Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem on Thursday, forcing students to evacuate the study hall. Three teams of firefighters arrived in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in

Border Police officers stationed near Hevron’s Cave of the Patriarchs thwarted a stabbing attack Thursday, arresting an Arab man found with a concealed knife. Officers noticed the 26-year-old Hevron resident