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
The Jews of America may be the largest Jewish community in the Diaspora, but that does not mean Israeli schoolchildren learn much about themRead More
Iran has agreed to ship some of its uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel exchange.Read More
The Interior Ministry refused to let linguist Noam Chomsky into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday. Chomsky, who aligns himself with the radical left, had been scheduled to lecture at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, and visit Bil’in and Hebron, as well as meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and various Palestinian activists.Read More
The state prosecution and defense attorney’s of the Haredi woman charged with systematically starving her 3-year-old son reached a plea bargain on Thursday in which the woman would confess to the crimes alleged to her and serve only three years under house arrest.Read More
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