Heskel Haddad, an 11-year-old boy was finishing a festive meal and preparing to celebrate the Jewish festival of Shavuot, oblivious to the angry mob that was about to take over the city.
Thousands of...
The friction between the police and Jerusalem's Arab population has escalated considerably over the past 18 months, a report released Tuesday by the Association for Civil Rights indicates.
According ...
Seventy years ago, on June 1, 1941, the most dramatic and violent pogrom in the Arab Middle East during World War II took place in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Known in Arabic as the Farhūd, this dev...
"No one can stop the United Nations General Assembly from recognizing the Palestinian state in September," Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu on said Monday.
Speaking before the Knesset's Forei...
Rainer Hoess was 12 when he found out his grandfather was one of the worst mass murderers in history
The gardener at his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and blue after hea...
The next time you visit Jerusalem you might not be able to walk around Mamilla, Talbiya or Holyland – but rather in the Hagoshrim, Komemiyut or Eretz HaTzvi. A new bill is aiming to refer to neighb...
Thomas Hemer journeyed from Nevada to Leipzig, the city where he was born 88 years ago, to fight for the legacy of his grandfather, an Egyptologist of Jewish origin forced to leave Germany after...
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The creator of the Linux computer operating system canceled three lectures at Israeli universities because of pressure from the Palestinian Authority.
Richard Stallman, an America...
The war on terror must not be delayed by "even one day," Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said Monday at a ceremony marking 10 years to the Dolphinarium discotheque bombing.
The Tel Aviv ter...
JERUSALEM – The guest roster appeared more like a UN conference than a birthday party. Canadian philanthropist Walter Arbib celebrated his 70th birthday with Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lie...
