Duke’s Jon Scheyer is coming to Israel to be a basketball superstar.Read More
A Sydney rabbi stepped aside from his high-profile post while he fights a report suggesting he supported covering up alleged cases of child molestation.Read More
Representatives of Jewish and Roma, or Gypsy, youth groups from eight countries are meeting in Hungary.Read More
Most municipal authorities have declared a one-day strike scheduled for Monday, in sympathy with popular protests spreading throughout Israel.Read More
The Knesset will break for recess this week as planned, despite calls to cancel the break due to the ongoing nation-wide protests. The question was voted on in a meeting chaired by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. Only representatives from Shas and Kadima voted in favor of canceling the recess.Read More
Teen pop star Justin Bieber and his father got matching Hebrew tattoos during their April visit to Israel.Read More
An 11-year-old New York boy is reportedly planning a one-mile charity swim in the Hudson River as a special bat mitzvah gift to a friend.Read More
President Shimon Peres has been holding intensive talks with Ramallah in an effort to resume negotiations and head off a unilateral Palestinian statehood bid at the UN in September.Read More
The purchase of a Jerusalem soccer team by two American Jews reportedly fell through.Read More
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) endorsed Democrat David Weprin in a New York special congressional election that has been characterized in the press as a Jewish referendum on President Obama’s Israel policies.Read More