An estimated 200,000 people took part in an all-night celebration in Meron on Saturday night. They danced, sang, prayed and learned Torah in celebration of the holiday of Lag BaOmer,

The Syrian government ordered the use chemical weapons against the Free Syrian Army (FSA) during select battles with Syrian regime forces, a defected general told Al Arabiya late Saturday. Zahir

The government will vote Sunday on a new series of bills that the Bank of Israel plans to issue. The proposed designs for the bills will be presented to the

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose by 3.7 percent in 2012, and Holocaust denial rose 77 percent, revealed the Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents released by the League for Human Rights of

Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri said Saturday the Lebanese authorities have banned his award-winning film “The Attack” from cinemas in his home country because it was partly shot in Tel Aviv

Thousands of Jews are still making their way to Meron for the Lag Ba’omer “Hiloula” celebration that began Saturday night at midnight. Police, emergency rescue and fire teams are on hand in

Pilgrims arrived on Friday at Tunisia’s Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa, expressing hope that this year would mark a turning point for the ritual despite a rise in Islamist

Bulgarian investigators on Friday re-enacted a July 2012 bomb attack blamed by Sofia on Hizbullah that killed five Israelis, AFP reported. The investigators blew up two old buses and 11

A would-be synagogue bomber in New York City was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday, the New York Post reports. Mohamed Mamdouh, 22, a naturalized citizen from Morocco,

U.S. President Barack Obama repeated on Friday his past assertions that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a line and produce an American response. At the same

The Lebanese army has increased its presence along the Lebanon-Israel border, the official Lebanese National News Agency reported on Friday. According to the report, the IDF increased its presence along

U.S. President Barack Obama is awaiting a “definitive judgment” on whether the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against rebel fighters before taking action, the White House said on Friday, according

The teenaged Boston bombing suspect has been moved to a prison medical facility, officials said Friday, according to an AFP report. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old wounded in a wild escape

The United Nations has been a “major disappointment” in the 21st Century and has “inverted right and wrong,” human rights scholar and activist Anne Bayefsky tells Arutz Sheva in a

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is protesting a cartoon published in the Dutch newspaper De Volksrant that utilizes Nazi imagery to depict Israel as a threat to world peace. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that growing evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime was “extremely serious”. Cameron agreed with President Barack Obama

U.S. Senators said on Thursday it was time to intervene in Syria, after the United States said for the first time that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against rebel

Hundreds of descendants of Peruvian Jews are planning to make aliyah (immigrate) to Israel, the Jewish Agency reports. The community of Peruvians with Jewish ancestry has been dubbed the “Amazon

The United States said Thursday for the first time that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against rebel forces, but emphasized spy agencies were still not 100 percent sure of

A Slovak court has paved the way for the extradition of an alleged Nazi-era war criminal from Hungary to Slovakia after rejecting his complaint against an earlier verdict, Slovakia’s TASR

Arab Bank, Jordan’s largest lender, has lost a bid to avoid a U.S. trial in a lawsuit brought by terrorism victims who accuse it of supporting attacks in Israel, Bloomberg

“Hizbullah denies sending any unmanned drone towards occupied Palestine,” the movement’s television channel, Al-Manar, said Thursday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in a helicopter flight on the way to a tour of

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon promised Thursday that Israel would retaliate for the UAV flight into Israeli airspace Thursday, assumed to be a Hizbullah operation. “There will be an Israeli

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that American intelligence believes “to some degree of varying confidence” that Syria has used chemical weapons. During a visit to the United Arab

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said that the situation with Iran “is very perilous” because the regime “is

Israel has a presence in Syria and it is thus logical that it would know if chemical weapons had been used in the civil war, a Syrian rebel leader has

Organizers of a Jewish pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian island of Djerba, said Wednesday they are hoping for a revival this year, after an Al-Qaeda attack in

Egypt’s leaders have assured visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that they are committed to their country’s peace treaty with Israel. A statement on Wednesday by the U.S. embassy in

Five people were found dead on Wednesday in their home in the small town of Manchester, Illinois. Suspected gunman Rick Odell Smith, 43, shot and killed a great-grandmother, a young

Anti-Semitism in Canada increased just slightly between 2011 and 2012, figures released on Wednesday show. Amidst reports of a global rise of over 30% in anti-Semitic incidents in 2012, with