Three Arab youths were caught Saturday night desecrating Jewish holy books at a sacred Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.
On Friday, 1,200 rabbis appealed to US President Barack Obama to release long-imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.
The lawyer for U.S. contractor Alan Gross, who is in jail in Cuba, rejects claims by Havana that his client is in good health.
Eliezer (Eli) Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to the Jewish people, died Monday at the age of 86.
President Obama says the Jewish New Year is a time to "renew the unbreakable bond we share with our friends and allies."
New Jersey couple makes Aliyah three days after their wedding, just in time for Rosh Hashanah
In Rosh Hashana greetings, President of the European Commission warned of rise of anti-Semitism due to the economic problems in Europe.
With thousands of marriages to their credit, religious dating sites merge. "With G-d's help, by you too", as the Yiddish saying goes..
A group of Israeli journalists this week announced a new union of reporters in Israel who cover the Jewish Diaspora.
Last Friday more than 15,000 Torah scholars joined together around the world for the largest Talmud test in history.
Cuba insists that jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross is in decent health, despite his wife's assertion he has lost more than 100 pounds.
Deputy mayor of Ukrainian town praises "amazing volunteer spirit" as pilgrimage to Rebbe Nachman's tomb nears.
Lawyers for Allan Gross, who is imprisoned in Cuba, ask a UN working group on arbitrary detentions to press for their client's release.
Austria's president has denounced far-right Freedom Party leader for posting an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page.
Population stats for new Jewish year show 5,978,600 Jews. Jews still in Diaspora down by 10,000.
Thousands of Jews prayed at the Kotel for G-d to “blot out the thoughts of those who hate us and of the wicked enemy Iran.”
The Tovei Ha'ir Senior Citizen Residence in Jerusalem connects to the holidays with songs and stories of the Hassidut of Modz'itz.
Abe Zelmanowitz stayed behind to help his wheelchair bound co-worker. Daniel Lewin attempted to thwart the airline hijackers.
Members of Republican Jewish Coalition rallied in Florida on Sunday with some saying they 'might move to Israel if Obama gets re-elected.'
One of the most important projects in Jerusalem, the conservation of the Old City walls and gates, is complete.
An Estonian magazine insisted Monday a mock ad it published was a joke, and the uproar it caused was an issue of “cultural differences.”
An Estonian newspaper has published an ad for weight-loss pills depicting emaciated Jews in a Nazi death camp.
A small body of water in rural New Hampshire, previously dubbed “Jew Pond,” has been officially renamed, amid controversy.
Jews and Muslims gather in Berlin to demonstrate against a controversial circumcision court ruling.
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) apologized after invoking the Holocaust in reference to federal student loans.
President Shimon Peres has extended his New Year’s greetings to the Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
Thieves who traveled from Israel to steal treasures from a synagogue in Milan were punished – by judges in Jerusalem.
Masked arsonists broke into a kosher restaurant in Hollywood on Friday, causing significant damage to Jewish eatery.
As Ashkenazi Jews began reciting "Slichot", a musical service was held in Jerusalem and thousands prayed at the Western Wall..
Residents of a neighborhood in Monmouth Heights, NJ, awoke on Thursday to find swastikas and hate-filled slogans.
Chabad of Midtown Manhattan has closed on its purchase of a building on 509 Fifth Ave. for just under $40 million.
Several thousand hareidi-religious men in Britain meet to discuss the dangers of the Internet.
Leading strategists, journalists try to explain what makes the rabbi so popular.
A ceremony was held in Germany to commemorate Israeli athletes and coaches who were brutally murdered at 1972 Munich Olympics Games.
Vandals desecrated six Jewish tombstones at a cemetery in Germany with graffiti including Nazi swastikas, police announced Wednesday.
On Monday morning, children in grades 7-9 who attend the Chabad school in Berlin were subjected to anti-Semitic taunts.
Rabbi flies to Bulgaria without the usual celebrity entourage, but Dankner and Ben-Dov still seek him.
More than 1,000 Germans formed a “flash mob” Saturday in response to a leading rabbi advising Jews to keep a low profile.
Berlin has made new laws for people who want to circumcise their sons – and traditional Jewish mohels don't meet criteria.
Lublin mayor: 'I will do everything in my power' to block new crematory near Majdanek.
Two men were arrested in New York after they allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd of Hassidic Jews standing outside local bakery.
Rabbi Yeshayahu Pinto told followers on Tuesday the best way to deal with the Iranian threat is by learning from the story of Purim.
A group of rabbis said they would ignore a proposed law that would mandate that parents sign a consent form to perform metzitzah b'peh.
With Muslim Brotherhood in power, the last functioning synagogue has been shut down.
The Diary of Anne Frank is being released next month as an interactive app
The “Hitler” garment store in India has agreed to change its name due to protests from both the local and international community.
“We need you here to help build the homeland of the Jewish people,” said Minister Hershkowitz to pre-army olim.
A New Jersey congregation offers a reward for information leading to the return of an Englewood teenager who disappeared.
Vienna police are probing a rabbi's claim that a football fan insulted him and gave the Hitler salute, while police did nothing.
The case of the missing pro-Israel millionaire Guma Aguiar remains unsolved, but police revealed his tefillin were found on his boat.
The Foreign Ministry launched a new campaign aimed at bringing attention to 856,000 Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries.
An “open miracle” occurred in Crown Heights overnight Monday morning when everyone escaped with their lives from a blazing building.
For the first time, Egyptian Jews will have no minyan for prayers at Alexandria's Eliyahu HaNavi Synagogue during the High Holy Days.
Cardinal Carlo Maria was “a courageous man who played an important role in fostering better Catholic-Jewish relations.”
Jewish and Muslim religious leaders from 18 European countries will gather in Paris to discuss increasing religious prohibitions in Europe.
A high-level European Jewish Union (EJU) has delegation traveled to Montenegro to help re-establish Jewish life in the country.
The ADL has called on the owner of the "Hitler" garment shop in India to change store name.
An emergency bomb drill was held at a Jewish school in Antwerp, designed to prepare the city for a potential attack.
A rabbinical college in Germany has warned its students against wearing kippot, after a rabbi was attacked by four Arab youths last week.
