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The family of the now deceased University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier kept his Jewish faith a secret so officials could negotiate his release from North Korea, according to an official who negotiated the student’s release.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating among Jewish Israelis has dropped by 23%. One possible factor: the absence of a firm decision as to whether he will move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as promised.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The government of Jordan has refused the United States’ request to extradite a Palestinian terrorist who was implicated in the 2001 bombing of Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two Americans and several children.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s moral claim to the land comes from the Bible, not Google, an Israeli minister said in Washington on Tuesday at an event marking 50 years since the 1967 Six Day War.

TEL AVIV – Israel is the 11th-happiest country in the world, beating the United States (14th), Germany (16th) and the UK (19th), according to the UN’s 2017 World Happiness Report, released Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Donald Trump and his staff for their support of Israel during a press conference at the White House on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Eighty-five percent of Jews around the world have witnessed or experienced antisemitism at some point in their lives, a survey by the World Zionist Organization’s International Center for Countering Anti-Semitism found.

LONG ISLAND CITY, New York – A Nassau Community College student was arrested after allegedly drawing over 100 swastikas on campus since President-Elect Donald Trump’s election, along with anti-Semitic phrases and symbols.

TEL AVIV – One of Egypt’s hottest young actors revealed that he is Jewish on a talk show broadcast on Egyptian television last week.

Stephen K. Bannon, who served as Executive Chairman at Breitbart News before becoming Donald Trump’s campaign CEO and now the President-elect’s White House chief strategist and senior counsel, responded to recent media attacks alleging that he is anti-Semitic during an in-depth interview with the Wall Street Journal.

NEW YORK, New York — While delivering his opening remarks at the Anti Defamation League (ADL) “Never is Now” Summit on Anti-Semitism at the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt pledged to register as a Muslim if President-elect Donald Trump and his administration proceed to create a government database to register and track foreign entrants from Muslim countries in order to thwart terrorism.

PANAMA CITY, Florida — During the first of four announced campaign stops throughout America on Sunday, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence spoke to a crowd of Floridians, which included several Orthodox Jews who expressed fear over a potential Clinton presidency as it relates to Israel.

Christina Ramos told Breitbart News at a Donald Trump rally in West Hollywood on Friday that she sees him as the man who can save the United States from its impending self-destruction.

Animal rights activists are suing religious Jews in Irvine to stop the tradition of kapparot, an annual ritual in some Jewish communities in which chickens are waved in the air, slaughtered and donated to the poor as atonement for sin in preparation for Yom Kippur.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accredited by the United nations are promoting antisemitism worldwide, according to a new report released earlier this month.

TEL AVIV – 30 people attended the funeral in New York for a woman they didn’t know after reading about her death on Facebook.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told Breitbart News on Thursday night on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that the party officials who brought up Bernie Sanders’s religion should be fired.

Pope Francis was set to meet Holocaust survivors at the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland Friday, as well as people who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis.

Almost 30 minutes of legendary comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis’ long-hidden Holocaust drama, The Day the Clown Cried, has surfaced online in a rough edit format pulled from footage of a German documentary about the 1972 original movie.

The Obama administration will continue to object to Israeli and Palestinian unilateral actions, Susan Rice said, while also resisting outside attempts to impose a solution.

Google has removed an app that allowed users to surreptitiously identify Jews online after a tech website brought the tool to widespread media attention and spurred a backlash.

TEL AVIV – Jewish rapper Drake apparently has a crush on a nice Jewish girl who is none other than comedian Sarah Silverman.

While millions of Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as the party’s nominee, Bill Kristol and a small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders are preparing a third party effort to block Trump’s path to the White House.

The Jerusalem Post reported: A prominent Israeli campaigner for Palestinian rights was recorded saying that he helps Palestinian authorities find and kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews. The recording was aired Thursday by the television program Uvda of Israel’s Channel

A Hanukkah-themed medley of One Direction hits has gone viral – and is set to brutally expose the generation gap in homes across North London. The Hanukkah mash-up was the brainchild of New York filmmaker Erez Cohen, and features several

The Times of Israel reports: In a first for Germany, and perhaps the world, a Muslim wrote one of the Hebrew letters in a new Torah scroll. On November 29, the small Jewish community of Marburg, Germany celebrated the completion

One of the 14 victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, wrote in a Facebook post the day before the attack that he had received threats for days, including one that stated, “You will die and never see Israel.”

A Jewish student at the University of California Santa Cruz was pushed to abstain from voting on an anti-Israel resolution seeking divestment from the Jewish state over fears that he was “elected by a Jewish agenda.”

A Jewish French schoolteacher was stabbed by a Muslim gang in Marseille, France, Wednesday evening, police said.

The claim that Jews track users of Samsung smartphones by implanting secret handset devices has been made in a video released by a trustee of a UK-based Muslim charity. Incredibly, the man who created and uploaded the bizarre Zionist conspiracy footage online has

The Hummus Bar in Netanya, an Israeli restaurant, is offering a 50 percent discount for Jews and Arabs who dine together at its tables.

In an attempt to shore up support for President Obama’s much-hated Iran nuclear deal, the New York Times published a list of legislators who voted against the deal. But the list immediately sparked charges of anti-Semitism because one of the categories identified whether or not the Senators were Jewish. It wasn’t long before the list was taken down.

A Palestinian man from Hebron has been bombarded by threatening messages after he saved five American Jews from a Palestinian lynch mob last week.

Obama asserted that he cared deeply about Israel which is why he felt the need to be honest about his views about their security. But he admitted that he was more upset about people who criticized Jewish members of his administration for supporting the deal with Iran.

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline carrier, has announced that it will service its last U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv on January 4, 2016.

Tablet Magazine, an online Jewish publication, used its Friday editorial to call out President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party for the use of anti-Jewish rhetoric in an effort to whip up public support for the Iran deal.