A Protestant pastor from the northern German city of Bremen who caused an uproar when he publicly declared that he was an anti-Semite has resigned his position as the church’s representative on a city council committee for promoting religious dialogue, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. “My...

JNS.org – A haredi Jew looks into a mirror and sees the face of Adolf Hitler gazing back at him. The walls and guard towers of Auschwitz are squeezed into a snow shaker, with flying dollar bills replacing the fake snowflakes. Another haredi Jew waves a swastika-shaped fan at an...

Iran will be renewing financial support to the Gaza-based terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad after two years of strained relations, the Arabic-language London newspaper a-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday. The move comes a month after a delegation of Islamic Jihad officials, headed by leader Ramadan Shalah, visited Iran. The delegation praised...

More than 5,500 startups are operating in Israel today, with 1,400 new ones founded just last year, creating innovative new high-tech products in fields such as software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and 3D printing. A video report for Bloomberg Businessweek took viewers inside Israel’s thriving startup scene. Israel has been able to...

Israeli officials intercepted a Gaza-bound shipment of metal pipes and motors that could have been used by Hamas to build rockets and tunnels, Israel’s Defense Ministry announced Thursday. The shipment contained “hundreds of pipes with a diameter under four inches, with a special kind of screw that is used for the production...

Two Israeli filmmakers took home prizes at the Cannes Film Festival this week. Or Sinai, a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, and Asaph Polonsky, who was born in the U.S. but raised in Israel, pocketed rave reviews for their works. Polonsky’s debut film, One Week and a...