All anyone attending the United Nations General Assembly opening seemed to want to talk about was the threat posed to the world by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
President Barack Obama on Thursday angrily called for stricter U.S. gun laws after the latest mass murder in Oregon and took aim at the powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby for blocking reform.
As Hurricane Joaquin gains steam off the southeastern coast of the United States, the question has begun to circulate online: Are Jews allowed to take down their sukkahs in the case of a storm?
Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon seeking the Republican presidential nomination, drew fire last month when he said he would not \”advocate\” for a Muslim president, but it turns out that most Republicans agree with him.
The Reconstructionist movement will accept rabbinical applicants who have non-Jewish partners.
A gunman opened fire on Thursday at a community college in Oregon, killing 13 people and wounding some 20 others, in the latest mass killing to rock a U.S. school, officials and local media said.
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar Assad\’s government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a sign the civil war is turning still more regional and global in scope.
An Israeli couple was shot dead while driving through the occupied West Bank late on Thursday and Israeli forces were searching the area for the attacker, the Israeli military said.
Entertainment mogul Haim Saban reportedly has pulled out of a campus anti-BDS initiative he launched with fellow billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
When the Leviathan gas field was discovered off the coast of Israel in 2010, it was pitched as a game-changer — a vast energy reserve that would transform the economy and bolster public finances for years to come.
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