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President Obama issues statement on the death of Elie Wiesel

(Editor’s note: The following statement was issued this evening by President Barack Obama.)

(WHITE HOUSE) — Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world.  Tonight,...

Palestinian assailant stabs 2 in Netanya, shot dead by civilian

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man and woman were injured in a stabbing attack in the coastal Israeli city of Netanya.

The man, reportedly in his 40s, and the woman, reportedly in her 60s, were moderately to severely injured in...

Rabbi Maurice Lamm, author of ‘Jewish Way in Death and Mourning,’ dies

(JTA) — Rabbi Maurice Lamm, the author of “The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning” and several other notable Jewish books, has died.

Lamm died Wednesday night “surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren singing him to the heavens,” his...

Murdered Israeli girl had US citizenship

(JTA) — The 13-year-old Israeli girl killed in her West Bank bedroom on Thursday also was an American citizen.

A State Department spokesman confirmed at a news briefing that Hallel Yaffa Ariel of Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement near Hebron,...

Netanyahu orders that PA payments to terrorists be deducted from tax revenue transfers

ISRAEL – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered today, July 1, that specific deductions be taken from the tax revenues that Israel transfers monthly to the Palestinian Authority. The amounts in question are those transferred by the Palestinian Authority to terrorists...

Family trip cut short by terrorists; father dead on scene

By MICHAEL ZEFF

WEST BANK (TPS) – An Israeli man was killed in a terrorist drive-by shooting on Friday, while driving with his family from their home in the Jewish community of Otniel in the Har Hevron Regional Council. The...

Jeremy Corbyn compares Israel to ISIS in speech against anti-Semitism

(JTA) — The leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, drew parallels between Israel and the Islamic State terrorist group in a speech condemning anti-Semitism.

“Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu...

13-Year-Old Jewish girl stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorist while asleep in home

By JONATHAN BENEDEK

A 13-year-old Israeli girl was murdered Thursday morning by a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed her in her bed in the community of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron.

The terrorist breached the community’s security fence just before 9:00 a.m....

Terror attack in Kiryat Arba; 2 Israelis seriously wounded, assailant killed

By JESSE LEMPEL

(TPS) — Two Israelis were seriously wounded after a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hebron, and stabbed two people. The terrorist was shot and killed by responding members of the Israeli...

United Auto Workers rejects NYU graduate student union vote backing Israel boycott

(JTA) — The United Auto Workers union struck down a vote by the graduate student union at New York University to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

Last week’s decision came two months after the resolution to...