An American journalist held hostage in Syria by a group affiliated with al-Qaida was released to the Israeli Golan Heights.
Authorities in California\’s wine country north of San Francisco were scrambling late Sunday to reach damaged buildings and restore power in the town of Napa after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck before dawn, injuring more than 100 people.
A visiting rabbi from Jerusalem was threatened and verbally abused by a gang of youths in a shopping mall in Western Australia on Monday.
Some 40 Jewish Holocaust survivors and more than 200 direct descendants of survivors signed a public letter condemning Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
When the novel “Altschul’s Method” hit the shelves in Czech bookstores this March, it was hailed as a brilliant political and psychological thriller combining elements of science fiction, alternate history and Jewish mysticism.
This past Friday night, instead of having my usual guests for a festive Friday night dinner in my home, I had three compassionate LAPD officers standing in my kitchen explaining the difference between a \”hate crime\” and a \”hate incident.\” My family was the victim of the latter.
Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen, head of delegation of the European Union to Israel, is no stranger to the region.
The leader of Nigeria\’s Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza \”by Islamic law\”, in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection.
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