JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier and a civilian were stabbed in a suspected terror attack in the northern Israeli city of Afula.Civilian bystanders restrained the assailant in the wake of the Thursday night attack and held him until police arrived,...

NEW YORK (JTA) — New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority must run advertisements promoting a film called “The Muslims Are Coming!” in subways, a federal judge ruled.U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision on Wednesday countered...

Matisyahu performing at the opening ceremony of the European Maccabi Games on July 28, 2015, in Berlin. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)(JTA) — American Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu said that he was proud to stand up to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...

(JTA) — Stephan Templ, an Austrian Jewish historian who wrote a book critical of Vienna’s post-Holocaust handling of Jewish property, began serving a one-year prison term for restitution fraud. Templ, 55, reported on Monday to Vienna’s Simmering...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel for the killing of two Palestinian attackers in Jerusalem and called on the United Nations to intervene to protect its citizens. In a statement published Sunday on the website of the Wafa...

JERUSALEM (JTA) –An Israeli military officer has been removed from his position after soldiers under his command which soldiers caught on film destroying cameras belonging to journalists. During the Sept. 25 incident near Nablus in the West Bank, soldiers...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A report by Palestinian parents that their 6-year-old son was shot in the stomach by a Jewish settler was fabricated, the Israeli army said. The Israel Defense Forces found in its investigation that the boy who was shot in Qalqilya,...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Police will ban Palestinians from entering the Old City of Jerusalem for the next two days, following two terror attacks that left two Jewish Israelis dead. Access to the Old City will be limited to Israeli citizens, Old City...

Taking coffee to go hasn’t caught on in Israel — where Tel Aviv residents, in particular, like to linger for hours over a cup. (Wikimedia Commons) In Israel, American stores dot shopping malls and McDonald’s branches proliferate. But one chain you...

(JTA) — The U.S. government’s Department of Transportation accused Kuwait Airways of unlawfully discriminating against an Israeli passenger. The accusation last month was over the Kuwaiti airline’s refusal in 2013 to sell a ticket to Eldad Gatt,...

At the U.N. General Assembly opening, from left to right: Russian President Vladimir Putin (Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (Spencer Platt/Getty Images), U.S. President Barack Obama (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) and Israeli...

Sebastian Espinoza-Carranza, left, who pleaded guilty to spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a suburban Washington, D.C. synagogue, confers with his attorney, Barry Helfand, prior to his hearing, Sept. 8, 2015. (Suzanne Pollak) WASHINGTON (Washington...