Russian diplomats are stressing that Israel’s national security interests will not be hurt by the country’s sudden announcement of its plans to withdraw troops from Syria, which Israel’s top general admitted took him by surprise, Ynet reported Tuesday. “We will try to ensure that this (Syria) crisis is resolved, and we will also...

Students and faculty at Oberlin College are “working actively to deal with this unprecedented situation” created by the controversial social media postings of Prof. Joy Karega, a professor at the school wrote Monday in The Forward. Karega was broadly condemned for making and promoting anti-Semitic statements in her Facebook posts, which were first revealed by The...

A top leader of the Lebanese Shi’a militia Hezbollah criticized the Arab League after the body designated them as a terrorist organization, saying that the move was part of a Saudi “declaration of aggression.” “Saudi Arabia is trying to affirm that Hezbollah is a terrorist group in all the forums that allow it...

Guinness World Records has confirmed that Israel Kristal, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who now lives in Haifa, is now the world’s oldest living man. “I don’t know the secret for long life,” Kristal said upon receiving his new title. “I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never know...

Campaigns to boycott Israel are a strong predictor of anti-Semitism on college campuses, a new study has determined. The AMCHA Initiative, which focuses on campus anti-Semitism, studied more than 100 American universities, both public and private, with large Jewish undergraduate populations. The report, which incorporated media and eyewitness reports of anti-Semitism, found significant statistical correlations between...

The latest wave of terror in Israel may not be conducted by “lone wolves,” as is commonly believed, but guided by the hidden hand of Hamas, a leading terror researcher has reported. Shaul Bartal of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies wrote that obscuring the genesis and motivations of such attacks...