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During the recent AIPAC conference, Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, ran an ad in The New York Times and The Washington Post urging politicians to put an end to using “divisive

The Skulener Rebbe, HaGaon HaRav Yisroel Avrohom Portugal ztz”l has passed away at the age of 95. The Rebbe passed away Monday afternoon at John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore after

In a unprecedented move by Western members of the UN Human Rights Council, all EU member states voted against a permanent item singling out Israel. The vote was the first time

The State Department has ended the policy of referring to the West Bank and the Golan Heights as being “occupied” by Israel. In the Department’s annual report on global human

A rocket from Gaza hit central Israel on Monday, leading the Israeli air force to launch an offensive against Hamas targets. Seven people were wounded after a house north of Tel Aviv

An Israeli father of 12 who was shot during a terror attack in the West Bank has died of his wounds. Rabbi Achiad Ettinger of Eli is the second to die

Dutch Jews were shocked to read a column by the editor of the country’s main Jewish weekly announcing that she is leaving for Israel because of rising anti-Semitism. “I am

Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt have rejected a statement by the Union of Arab Parliaments calling for an end to normalization with Israel. Marzouq Al-Ghanim, speaker of the Kuwaiti National

At an Atlanta middle school’s “multicultural night,” a map that showed Palestine in place of present-day Israel. The map was placed on a table dedicated to Palestinian culture at the event

There are about 1,500 Jews in Finland, 1,200 of whom live in Helsinki. The history of the Jews in Finland begins with the Cantonists, Jewish boys from Czarist Russia who were