The grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, has been excluded from running for a seat on the Assembly of Experts, the group that will select a successor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Reuters reported Tuesday. The 12-member Guardian Council, which vets candidates for public...

U.S. intelligence officials are disputing the Obama administration’s claim that Iran was not involved in the kidnapping of three American contractors in Iraq earlier this month, Jay Solomon of The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Tuesday. The three contractors were abducted in Baghdad on January 16, the same day that...

“A” is a physically disabled Druze youth who had failed 11 subjects by the end of junior high school. He lacked both motivation and self-esteem, and his teachers and parents had all but given up on him. Thanks to an innovative educational program implemented in A’s high school, he graduated...

Leading Syrian opposition figures have accused Secretary of State John Kerry of threatening to cut aid to forces fighting dictator Bashar al-Assad unless they agreed to attend peace talks on terms dictated by Assad’s backers, Iran and Russia. Mohamad Alloush, a member of the Syrian opposition’s High Negotiating Committee (HNC), told...

The 15-year-old Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli mother of six was incited to violence by Palestinian television programs, the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, said Sunday. Incitement by Palestinian officials and media has frequently been blamed for the rise in violence against Jews in the last six months....

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said that he regrets the timing of critical remarks he made about Israel last week, Ha’aretz reported Monday. In an interview with Army Radio, Shapiro acknowledged that “the timing [of his comments] wasn’t ideal,” though he noted that they “began with a condemnation of the...

The Swiss government is facing increased criticism over an alleged agreement it secretly made with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1970 to offer the group diplomatic support in exchange for an end to terrorist attacks on its territory, the BBC reported on Friday. The deal, detailed in an upcoming book...

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters disrupted a Shabbat service and reception held by an Israeli LGBTQ organization at a conference for gay activism in Chicago, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Sunday. Guests and organizers at the reception by A Wider Bridge, a group devoted to building closer ties between gay...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the capture of ten American sailors “God’s deed” in a tweet posted Sunday. God’s deed; IRGC’s timely job; Americans with hands on heads pic.twitter.com/b4XkdOdWoF — Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) January 24, 2016 Khamenei’s comment was part of a a series of tweets praising Iran’s Islamic...

JNS.org – Another week, another litany of ugly incidents targeting Jews, along with expressions of concern about rising anti-Semitism around the globe, and even the odd solution offered up. But as we’ve been slowly learning since the turn of this century, not much really changes. Let’s start with France, where...