The U.S. Department of State on Wednesday urged the Polish government to reconsider legislation that criminalizes references to the complicity of Poles in the Holocaust, a bill that sparked outrage among Israeli and Jewish organizations worldwide, The Jerusalem Post reported. “The history of the Holocaust is painful and complex. We...

As Hurricane Harvey ripped through Houston last August, the trauma didn’t even spare those whose job is to help others cope. One social worker, barricaded on the second floor of her house, watched in horror as water and mud flooded her first floor. Another was stuck in a closet with...

On Friday, July 14, 2017, at 7 in the morning, 3 Arab men from northern Israel entered the Temple complex in Jerusalem and carried out a terrorist attack that ended with their deaths and the deaths of 2 Israeli Arab policemen who tried to stop them. Weeks of turmoil followed as Israel...

The reported database of companies doing business in the West Bank by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is “yet another reminder of the Council’s anti-Israel obsession,” the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a statement released Wednesday, reacting to news that the Council...

The number of anti-Semitic attacks have reached a record level in the United Kingdom, with the Jewish community targeted at a rate of nearly four times a day during 2017, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The Community Security Trust (CST), British Jewry’s largest watchdog on anti-Semitism, recorded 1,382 anti-Semitic...

Eden Alene, 17, of Jerusalem, whose rendition of Demi Lovato’s “Stone Cold” wowed the judges on X-Factor Israel, won the competition, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. After being announced as the winner, Alene, who was raised by her single, Orthodox Jewish mother, hugged her mentor, Ivri Lider. As winner...

The West Bank and Israel could double trade with Jordan after new security measures were opened at the Allenby border crossing by Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Palestinian Authority (PA) National Economy Minister Abeer Odeh. A new system for scanning cargo containers will enable 200 containers to cross between...

When Hurricane Maria pummeled the Caribbean islands and Puerto Rico last September, most of the island’s infrastructure, buildings and homes were destroyed. Almost half a year later, the damage to Puerto Rico’s water system still poses a looming health crisis for island residents exposed to contaminated water. Israeli NGO IsraAID distributed and...

In an effort to fix the weaknesses in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a new working group tasked with forming a joint United States-European Union position on Iran’s ballistic missile program “must produce nothing less than a commitment to reimpose tough sanctions on Iran” if it continues to develop...

The United States has designated Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, as a “global terrorist,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The State Department similarly designated three groups – two Muslim Brotherhood splinter groups, and one Iranian-backed group – as terrorists. The announcement about Haniyeh was made by Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism...