Rabbi Avi Weiss is quitting the Rabbinical Council of America to protest its failure to admit as members rabbis whose sole ordination is from the rabbinical school he founded.
A Palestinian jailed in Israel ended his 55-day hunger strike after Israel agreed to free him.
Mariah Carey and her boyfriend are in Israel to meet a “spiritual leader” with an eye toward engagement.
The Israeli Knesset is set to vote on a recent Cabinet decision to override the Antitrust Authority and enact a controversial agreement on the development of Israel’s offshore natural gas reserves.
An Orthodox Jewish group hired Mexican laborers to protest for them at the gay pride parade in New York.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday faced his first major coalition crisis since his re-election, with ministers withholding support for government plans for developing Israel\’s natural gas fields.
NBC ended its relationship with real estate developer and TV personality Donald Trump and his \”Miss USA\” and \”Miss Universe\” pageants on Monday after he made comments insulting Mexicans when he began his run for president.
A gunman opened fire at a group of Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Monday, the Israeli military said, in a suspected Palestinian drive-by attack.
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