The United Nations canceled an appearance by a Hamas leader at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The cancellation Monday of an appearance by Ismail al-Ashqar, a senior official with Hamas, followed an official complaint filed with U.N. officials...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that direct discussions with Israel were an "important contribution to the cause of peace." "The two leaders agreed on the necessity of the two-state solution, and President...

JERUSALEM -- Iranians have responded to a Facebook page posted by an Israeli couple that communicates the message that Israel loves Iran. The Love and Peace Facebook page created on the evening of March 17 by Israeli graphic artists Ronny Edry and his...

Polish police are investigating the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in northeastern Poland. Monika Krawczyk, the CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, said vandals spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic images and...

JERUSALEM -- Two bills that would allow Jewish couples in Israel to be married by national-religious rabbis in the city of their choice were approved by a Knesset committee. The so-called "Tzohar laws," named after the organization of Modern Orthodox...

TORONTO -- Canada's Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is accusing a Quebec legislator of raising "a false issue" when he questioned ritual slaughter practices in the province. Parti Quebecois lawmaker Andre Simard on March 14 expressed his party's...

JERUSALEM -- Workers from the Tnuva dairy company in Israel have halted the distribution of cottage cheese to stores as part of a labor dispute, reminicent of last summers boycotts over economic inequality. The workers chose cottage cheese because it...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's ambassador to the United Nations has called for the dismissal of a U.N. agency employee based in Jerusalem who tweeted an incendiary photo during recent violence between Gaza and Israel. Khulood Badawi, the information and media...

JERUSALEM -- Hundreds of South Sudanese migrants and their Israeli supporters protested against the migrant's imminent deportation to their fledgling new country. The protest Saturday night in Tel Aviv was met with a counter protest by city residents....

John Demjanjuk, the Cleveland auto worker convicted as a death camp guard, died in a German nursing home. Demjanjuk, 91, died Saturday at an old-age home in southern Germany, where he was free while he appealed his conviction last year in the murder of...

JERUSALEM -- Ashrat “Assaf” Mamo is such a common sight when he pounds the pavement in Jerusalem that he’s on a first-name basis with city bus drivers who, he said, always “ask me about the marathon and encourage me.” On Friday, Mamo, a 27-year-old...

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee introduced legislation that would extend a program providing loan guarantees to the State of Israel.  Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Ranking Member Howard...