Rahm Emanuel arrived in Israel to celebrate the bar mitzvah of his son.Read More
When Itai Zar, 34, the leader of Havat Gilad, was arrested last November, it was only natural that the footage documenting the arrest, which someone filmed on their cell phone, would be posted within minutes on the outpost’s Facebook page - to the delight of the group’s 2,234 members.Read More
Synagogue membership has stopped declining in Britain, due to a rise in the number of fervently Orthodox Jews.Read More
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Palestinian Authority on Monday to stop opposing economic peace with Israel.Read More
Moishe Rosen, the founder of the Jews for Jesus movement, died Wednesday at 78 from prostate cancer.Read More
A Jewish theater in Washington has cancelled a play scheduled for the coming season after objections by Elie Wiesel.Read More
The five members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany have agreed on a sanctions package against Iran.Read More
Moshe Greenberg, one of Judaism’s pre-eminent biblical scholars, has died.Read More
Jewish-American professor Noam Chomsky will lecture to Bir Zeit University students via video conference from Amman, after being denied entry into Israel and the West Bank.Read More
Activists advocating a cultural boycott of Israel scored a major victory this weekend as musician Elvis Costello announced he was canceling his scheduled performances in Israel due to Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians.Read More