Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who has been held by Iran since his arrest in July, has been denied a lawyer by the judge handling his case, The New York Times reported Wednesday. [Jason’s] brother, Ali Rezaian, said the family had asked Masoud Shafiei, an Iranian lawyer experienced in handling foreign...

Alexander Kudascheff, the editor-in-chief of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, asserted that Europe “must stand united against rampant anti-Semitism” in an op-ed published on the website on Monday. Kudascheff began his argument by responding to the recent terror attacks that have targeted Jews in Europe. This terror targets all of us, but it...

An online petition at Change.org calling for the release of Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief of The Washington Post, has collected 100,000 signatures, the Post reported Thursday. Rezaian has been detained by Iranian authorities for months without the charges against him being made public. A burgeoning online petition drive has collected...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel plans to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress next month, Reuters reported yesterday. An outspoken New Jersey Orthodox rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, said on Thursday he is placing full-page advertisements in two of the leading U.S. newspapers, The New York...

The Facebook postings of an Austrian hairstylist calling for the killing of Jews was deemed a legitimate way to express “displeasure toward Israel,” an Austrian prosecutor recently ruled, according to a report Wednesday by Benjamin Weinthal in The Jerusalem Post. Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of...

In an interview published today by the BBC, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that the United States-led coalition keeps him informed of air strikes directed against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that occur in Syrian territory. In response to a question from Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle...