An Argentinian court will allow a recording of former Foreign Minister Hector Timerman acknowledging that Iran was behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires to be admitted as evidence in an inquiry to determine if he is guilty of treason, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported...

More than 30 students were lashed 99 times each after they were arrested for dancing at a graduation celebration attended by members of the opposite gender in the Iranian city of Qazvin, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing Iranian media. The arrests and punishments, which took place in a 24-hour span, were part of a...

June 1-2 is the 75th anniversary of the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom by pro-Nazi Arabs attempting to exterminate the Jews of Baghdad. Hundreds were murdered and raped, and many Jewish homes and business looted and burned during a two-day orgy of hate and violence orchestrated by the Grand Mufti of...

A Catholic Israeli-Arab was crowned the first winner of the Miss Trans Israel pageant on Friday. 21-year-old Ta’alin Abu Hanna, a ballet dancer from the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, called her victory “historic” and said that it promoted equality. She told reporters that she is “proud to be an Israeli Arab,”...

Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins had an exciting announcement as he took the podium at a Canadian Embassy-sponsored networking event in Tel Aviv in mid-May. He told the 200-plus guests about two medical miracles he’d just observed in Israel: Save a Child’s Heart Foundation (SACH) and the PillCam. While...

As Israel’s economic ties expand across East Asia, so does the popularity of the Jewish state’s food products. Costco stores throughout Japan hosted an Israeli food festival last week, featuring pita, matza, Wissotsky teas, Angel cookies, Adafresh spices, Hanasich tahini, and a variety of Israeli wines. The festival was sponsored by the...

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...