European Jewry to Israeli Gov.: Allocate Funds for 'Hasbara'
A top European Jewish leader urged newly elected Israeli government to appropriate funds to improving Israel’s image overseas.
A top European Jewish leader urged newly elected Israeli government to appropriate funds to improving Israel’s image overseas.


Ehud Halevy, the 21-year-old Jewish man from Brooklyn whose beating by NYPD was caught on videotape, has filed a civil rights lawsuit.

A British politician has exploited the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day to attack Israel, calling the Jewish state "a racist oppressor.”

The Vienna Philharmonic has assigned three historians the task of investigating the prestigious orchestra's Nazi past.
A Brooklyn Torah that was reported to be stolen and estimated to be worth around $30,000 was found, according to officials.

Top Jewish leaders met with controversial defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel, in what seems to be an effort to placate Jewish concerns.

A lawmaker from the blatantly anti-Semitic Hungarian Jobbik Party is planning to begin a lecture tour regarding the “Zionist threat.”

Former California Governor has sought the assistance of a prominent Jewish group upon hearing news of 'Hitler poster.'

A Lebanese source says that a group of Jews from Yemen are on their way to Israel – via Qatar.

The Satmar Rebbe arrived in Israel on Sunday night and took part in an anti-voting rally in Jerusalem.

Italian Parliament Member Fiamma Nirenstein says she won’t run for re-election at the Chamber of Deputies. Instead, she’s moving to Israel.

The 2,000th member of the ancient Bnei Menashe community lands in Israel as a new citizen.

A trove of about 4,300 rare vintage advertising posters that were seized by the Nazis in 1938 will go to auction in New York.

Russia criticized a ruling by a US judge to fine Moscow $50,000 a day for failing to return a historic Jewish library to Chabad-Lubavitch

Google’s app store for Androids is offering products featuring information for those who seek the “inspiration” of Adolf Hitler.

A hotel security guard was arrested in Tennessee for vandalizing a Torah scroll and other property belonging to a Hebrew academy.

Arutz Sheva TV joined the annual conference on the Legacy of the Rambam (Maimonides) and visited the unique heritage center in Tiberias.

Police to search for vase that provides evidence Shilo was sacked by Philistines.

Temple Institute moves to new headquarters, and takes giant laver with it.

A Viennese court sentenced a neo-Nazi figure in Austria to nine years in prison for his role in launching a website that glorifies Nazism.

The youngest of 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by Oskar Schindler has died in Southern California at the age of 83.

A popular German rap star sparked outrage after tweeting “Free Palestine” and a map of the Israel filled with colors of “Palestinian” flag.

The Florida Department of Corrections agreed to serve kosher food to Jewish inmates, ending a five-year struggle.

The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority has, for the second time, rejected a request to run an anti-Israel advertisement on its buses.

Israeli soccer player Tal Ben Haim of the Queens Park Rangers was targeted by a wave of anti-Semitic abuse on the club’s Facebook page.

A Jewish couple from Toronto was dead inside their south Florida apartment on Thursday night, with police investigating a double homicide.

For the second time in a week, Jews in Colorado were confronted with the ugly and frightening sight of swastikas drawn on a building

New York City court approves directive that consent form must be signed before “metzizah be'peh” stage of the Jewish bris is performed.

Sephardic sage felt ill during morning prayers. He is in good condition.

Slovak police have found a key witness in the case of suspected Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian media reported.

Obama is set to appoint Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, an orthodox Jew with strong ties within the Jewish community.

Jewish groups expressed "disappointment" after prosecutors dropped probe against far-right MP.

An 80-year-old American and 13-year-old Israel boy are "bar mitzvah twins" through network for the disabled.

Major storm no obstacle for Chabad’s Jewish outreach gathering.

Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Swedish artist's claims that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims in his artwork.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial and museum registered 1.43 million visitors in 2012, a record number in its 65-year history.

Vatican reaffirms its commitment to dialogue with Jews after head of a traditionalist breakaway group called them "enemies of the Church."

Jerusalem Arabs destroyed a dozen graves at the Mount of Olives cemetery, supposedly under Israeli sovereignty.

An innovative "Israel throughout the Year" curriculum for schools in the United States has been completed by Bar-Ilan University

Over one hundred and fifty orthodox rabbis from 40 Jewish communities worldwide arrived in Hevron to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Dozens of Israelis have been stranded since Sunday in Kiev after the airline with which they had flown, AeroSvit, went bankrupt.

European Jewish Congress calls on international community to condemn a festival of caricatures initiated by Iran in effort to deny Holocaust

Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Ort Braude Academic College have launched an art exhibition to display the creative talents of Western Olim.

The leader of Vienna's Jewish community has warned that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the country has doubled over the past year.

Bulgarian officials removed an investigator from a probe into an attack that killed five Israelis, after she revealed sensitive information

Evidence of destruction confirms conjecture that Shilo was destroyed after Even Ha'ezer war.

Reform groups filed a petition with the High Court demanding the removal of Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich as Rabbi of the Kotel.

If the government attempts to draft yeshiva students, the students will have no choice but to leave Israel, said Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Cache of 1,000-year-old documents written by Afghan Jews provides great insight into medieval Jewish life in central Asia.

The Republican Jewish Coalition has highlighted a recent poll that shows “large gap” in support for Israel between Republicans and Democrats

An Israeli accused of spying for Israel has been imprisoned for the last several weeks in Yemen, the country’s media reported Wednesday.

24-year-old Daniel Magrufta, who was dating the daughter of a member of the Revolutionary Guards, was murdered in Iran.

Israel's chief rabbis send letter to the President of the European Council, urge him to work to stop anti-Semitism.

This time there was no boycott or ruckus over "women's inclusion."

An 11 year-old Jewish girl from Long Island opted out of competing in US Table Tennis Championships because it fell out on Shabbat.

Hungarian Jews welcome pension hike for Holocaust survivors, but say government needs to do more to combat anti-Semitism.

Magen David and Police made an exception to allow a man to pray at the Kotel when he explained his illness may not allow him another chance.

Netanyahu quoted this week’s Torah reading -- “Now There Arose a New King Over Egypt” -- and warned of a Hamas takeover of Ramallah.

A Jewish man imprisoned for murder in Texas should be served kosher meals, a federal appeals court ruled.

Funeral is scheduled to leave the Sadigura Beit Midrash on Gutmacher Street in Bnei Brak at 1:30 p.m.
