After spending nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Natan Sharansky learned not to get too caught up in current events. “You have to look at [the world] from the perspective of the history of tens or sometimes even hundreds of years, and that’s what gives...

WASHINGTON -- Gary Ackerman, one of the veteran Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced he would not run again. Ackerman, who has served 29 years as a Democrat from Queens/Long Island, said he was stepping down at a time that his...

JERUSALEM -- IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benjamin Gantz left for his first official visit to the United States and Canada. Gantz, who left Thursday on a trip that was delayed several days due to the violence on Israel's southern border, will meet with...

BERLIN -- A leading German politician acknowledged that he may have gone too far when he called Israel an "apartheid regime" on Facebook. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, said Thursday that the choice of words he used on...

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting with Ethiopian community leaders said he was committed to stopping racism. “I asked for this meeting because I am committed to the Ethiopian immigrant public," Netanyahu said at Wednesday's...

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli ad aimed at expatriates living in the U.S. that had come in for criticism by the American Jewish community has reappeared online and in an Israeli magazine. The ad, calling on Israelis living in the United States to return to Israel,...

JERUSALEM -- Isaeli Border Police redirected a group of students from Harvard University from a Palestinian village for traveling on a security road. The 55 students and the Palestinian activist guiding them were stopped Wednesday in Walaja and escorted...

India has issued arrest warrants for three Iranians in connection with a bomb attack on an Israeli Embassy car. A New Delhi court issued the arrest warrants on Wednesday, marking the first time that India officially has linked the Feb. 13 attack to Iran....

JERUSALEM -- Schools were closed in southern Israel again as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip continued to strike despite a cease-fire. The cities of Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Kiryat Malachi and Gan Yavne canceled classes for Thursday after several...

BERLIN -- A one-ton steel key symbolizing the Palestinian "right of return" is to be shipped from a West Bank refugee camp to Berlin as part of a city-wide art festival. The Goethe Institut, Germany’s official cultural institution, is assisting in...

The Methodist Pension Board rejected a proposal to divest from companies that supply products to Israel's military. The United Methodist General Board of Pension and Health Benefits unanimously approved a resolution earlier this month that would allow...

WASHINGTON -- A group of Palestinian activists, including some who reject the notion of Jewish statehood, have disavowed associating with Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli musician who is seen as anti-Semitic. "We reaffirm that there is no room in this historic...