An Israeli couple who were detained eight days ago in Turkey on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking photographs of the Istanbul palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were freed Thursday morning in what is being hailed as a “Hanukkah miracle.”
A Jewish newlywed woman from Brooklyn discovered her new husband is apparently a Palestinian-Lebanese Muslim who had been posing as a Jew, only two weeks after the couple tied the knot.
Greece’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, has declared that the slaughter of animals in religious rituals, such as halal, is illegal without first stunning or sedating the animal.
The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call — a precondition for smooth entry to the Holy Land.
Malmö city archivist Anette Sarnäs decided to display Jewish books and posters books in the window of the city archive office only to be told to cover them to avoid potential vandalism.
Former Vice President Mike Pence topped the second annual list of Israel’s Top 50 Christian Allies, released Tuesday by the Israel Allies Foundation in honor of the Jewish Sukkot holiday.
German police arrested a 16-year-old Syrian male, his father, and two brothers on suspicion of plotting an “Islamist-motivated threat” against a synagogue.
Pope Francis praised Hungarian Jews and Christians in his visit to Budapest Sunday for striving to view each other and work together “as brothers and sisters.”
Afghanistan’s last remaining Jew, 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, has finally fled the country after years of withstanding threats from the Taliban.
Despite only accounting for less than two percent of the population, American Jews are the target of some 58 percent of all religiously motivated attacks in the U.S., newly released FBI statistics show.
The spokesman for the Taliban said he was tricked into giving an interview with Israel’s public broadcaster this week, and had never agreed to talk with an Israeli journalist.
Palestinians rioters clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron over construction at the Tomb of the Patriarchs to make the site wheelchair accessible, a move Palestinian officials have called a “war crime” that merits the launch of a bloody third intifada.
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) stated Tuesday more than 1,500 rabbis agree the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is “no longer competent to identify, let alone combat, antisemitism.”
The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s said they “unequivocally support” the ice cream maker’s move to boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank, calling it “one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history.”
NEW YORK — Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the head of Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, the latter’s decision to end sales in what it termed the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” is an “anti-Israel” move that would be fought “vigorously.”
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday walked back comments made a day earlier calling for the “freedom of worship for Jews” at the flashpoint Temple Mount amid outcry from the Arab world.
There is no connection between today’s Israelis and historical Jews, according to recent remarks made by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
Sacha Baron Cohen on Monday filed a lawsuit against a cannabis company that used a likeness of his comedic character Borat on a billboard.
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) came under fire after condemning Israel’s decision to demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist while not mentioning he murdered a teenager and critically wounded two others.
Archaeologists in Israel have unveiled a newly uncovered building near the Western Wall from the Second Temple period.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday made a rare offer to assist Lebanon as it experiences an unprecedented economic crisis, saying it was his responsibility “as a Jew and as a human” to alleviate suffering.
A Jewish man was subjected to abuse and death threats twice within the space of an hour on London’s public transportation, amid a major rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK.
Record numbers of antisemitic incidents have been recorded in the UK since last month’s rocket attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) reveal.
The Chicago Dyke March, which in 2017 came under fire for kicking out Jewish marchers, is promoting its upcoming gay parade with a cartoon showing a scantily clad woman burning the Israeli and American flags.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday slammed the new emerging coalition that will unseat him from power as “dangerous and leftwing,” and accused his political rival Naftali Bennett, who will succeed him as prime minister, of “selling out.”
A former Miss Iraq who was forced to flee her native country after posting a selfie with Miss Israel said at a pro-Israel rally that 25 percent of the global Muslim population are radical Islamists who want to eradicate the U.S. and Israel.
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog has been elected the 11th president of Israel after receiving the majority of votes from Knesset members in a secret ballot.
Antisemitism in the U.S. is much worse than it appears and is on the rise because of “woke culture,” intersectionality and parallels with the Black Lives Matter movement, the heads of a major U.S. Jewish group said this week.
In order for the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to hold up, Jews must be barred from visiting the Temple Mount — Judaism’s holiest site — in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers.
Aaron Keyak, Jewish Engagement Director at Biden for President, said Friday, “take off your kippah (head covering) and hide your magen david (star of David)” if you fear for your life as a Jew.
Every time I write something like the following, it feels silly and obvious, but sometimes the silly and obvious still must be said: Imagine the media landscape today if roving bands of white supremacists were flying the confederate flag out of their vehicles and stopping only to assault Jews.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas backed Israel’s right to self defense Thursday while calling for a ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Gaza Strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas.
Gaza has spent millions on terror rockets in a week but has no money for vaccines or education. Let that sink in for a moment.
The Israeli embassy in Beijing on Wednesday accused China of “blatant anti-Semitism” after a state TV report on U.S. foreign policy broached Jewish conspiracy theories to explain the ongoing Palestinian Hamas terrorist violence.
Antisemitic conspiracy theories in which Jews are blamed for the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant economic crisis have “skyrocketed” over the past year, a new report revealed.
Following the Biden administration’s decision last month to rejoin the anti-Israel U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.S. representative of the Geneva body has now authored a statement hailing the notorious anti-Semitic hate-fest that was the 2001 World Conference against Racism in Durban, sparking outrage among Jewish groups.
JERUSALEM — Half a year after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established diplomatic relations with Israel, discreet Jewish communities in the Gulf Arab states that once lived in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict are adopting a more public profile.
Israeli officials have demanded an apology from the NBC television network after a Saturday Night Live comedian joked Israel has only been vaccinating half its population, the Jewish half — a lie made all the more absurd in light of Israel’s heavy — and successful — campaign to persuade its Arab population to get the vaccine.
ROME — The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Sunday hailed Pope Francis’ “tremendous compassion” after he visited a Holocaust survivor in Rome, praising his “moral integrity and sense of history”.
