Members of the Tehilat David congregation in Tel Zion arrived at sunrise on Tuesday to find the synagogue had been burglarized and three Torah scrolls thrown on the ground. Tehilat

Egypt has confirmed Christians’ fear of Islamic rule and has sentenced 12 to life in jail for their part in warding off Muslim mobs last year. The court acquitted eight

The Chief Rabbi of Yemen, Yahia Youssef Moussa, has called on the country’s president to allow the Jewish community and other minority groups to be represented in the country’s parliament.

Syria’s ongoing unrest spilled over into Beirut on Monday as UN officials wring their hands over the most entrenched and bloody Arab Spring revolution today. Sunnis rioted in the Lebanese

Defense Minister Ehud Barak says Israel would accept an Iranian reduction in nuclear enrichment to 3.5 percent in accordance with a proposal by the P5+1. Israel’s official position is that

A young Moscow Jew was laid to rest Sunday after he was murdered this past weekend when he tried to stop a brawl between two Gentile gangs. Yaakov Manasharshivili, 26,

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of ancient jewelry hidden in a vessel at Tel Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. Dated from about 1100 BCE, one of the

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday hardened his rhetoric towards Iran saying “Iran threatens Israel and world peace.” Netanyahu’s remarks at a meeting of the Civil Service Commission at the

Abu Dhabi joined Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Monday in filing charges based on Twitter statements. Prosecutors ordered four detained on the charge of “tribal instigation and libel” through the

British-born historian and human rights activist David Littman, 78, passed away Sunday in his hometown of Gland, Switzerland. Littman posed as a Christian in 1961 to rescue 530 Moroccan Jewish children

Top Israeli officials signed the Global Entry “trusted traveler program” with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano Sunday in Jerusalem during a meeting with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency arrived in Tehran on Monday on a one-day visit that diplomats say could lead to an agreement for further inspections of Iranian nuclear

Pakistan restored access to Twitter on Sunday after briefly blocking the site over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, AFP reported. The

Iran has discovered an oil oilfield in the Caspian Sea for the first time in over a century, the Fars news agency reported. The deposit was found at a depth

Tens of thousands on Sunday attended a mass rally in New York City in what they described as a war on technology threatening Jewish sanctity. Haredi leaders raised $1.5m to

‘Palestinian’ forces launched a probe into the sale of candy with Hebrew-language wrappers in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp on Sunday, The Daily Star reported. ‘Palestinian’ authorities ordered a security

While recent polls have shown that American Jews still favor President Barack Obama for re-election, despite his rocky relationship with Israel and with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a new video released this week

The extreme leftist group B’Tselem disseminated a video on Sunday which depicts clashes between residents of the Shomron community of Yitzhar and Palestinian Authority Arabs. The video shows Arabs throwing rocks

Dr. Aliza Lavie, a communications researcher, lecturer at Bar Ilan University and social activist, spoke out on Sunday against the intermarriage of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The 28-year-old Jewish founder

Massive natural gas discoveries in East Africa are about to change the landscape and the continent’s coastal economy. Finds were announced last week off the coast of Tanzania and Mozambique,

Russia is concerned about a shift in the positions of some countries that now favor a military attack on Iran, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Sunday.  “We

Dozens of reservists who served in the Nahal Haredi (Netzach Yehuda) battalion say they have been ordered to carry out reserve duty in other battalions, despite IDF promises that they

At a ceremony honoring the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made some of his strongest statements to date regarding the right of the

Decades after the Holocaust, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida’s 18th congressional district has introduced and won committee passage of a bill, the first of its kind, that would enable American

Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari (National Union) and a few dozen activists celebrated Jerusalem Day by going up to the Temple Mount Sunday morning and asked to pray on the

Security agents have cracked a terrorist cell that roamed Judea and Samaria and failed several times to kidnap residents, especially women. The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) broke a gag

An Arab terrorist was seriously wounded by his own knife Sunday at 12 noon when he tried to stab a soldier accompanying hundreds of bicyclists near Gush Etzion, all of whom

Vandals used a BB gun to blast a hole through the window of a Philadelphia synagogue and shot hundreds of bullets at the door, but synagogue leaders have not called

The government has approved a new plan to develop tourism in Jerusalem and the economy of the capital city. Meeting on Ammunition Hill to honor the reunification of the city

Egyptian security force blocked black marketeers from importing fuel to Gaza on Saturday. Two vehicles were stopped by Egyptian forces after they broke through a checkpoint between the Sinai city