Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt\’s most active militant group, has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, a statement from Ansar said Monday night.
The Israeli government has adopted a major reform expected to ease the path to conversion for hundreds of thousands of Israelis now prohibited from marrying in the Jewish state.
The coarseness of the epithet for cowardice used by an anonymous Obama administration official to describe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seized the attention of Jerusalem and Washington.
A passenger on a London bus who shouted anti-Semitic epithets was given a 16-week prison sentence.
A member of Russia’s Human Rights Council condemned a news website that said that nearly a quarter of Russia’s top billionaires are Jews.
The head of the World Jewish Congress warned a Swiss art museum that it risks an \”avalanche\” of lawsuits if it accepts the bequest of a collection of artwork amassed by a man who dealt in art for the Nazis.
Islamic State militants have executed 36 more members of an Iraqi tribe that had resisted the Sunni militant group\’s advances in western Anbar Province for weeks, a member of the tribe said on Monday.
Jesse Friedman, whose conviction as a teenage child molester was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film \”Capturing the Friedmans,\” is not giving up his decades-long campaign to clear his name.
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