Poway, CA – After a self-avowed white supremacist shot up a California synagogue, some voices on the political right found their culprit: Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali Muslim immigrant who has posted tweets perceived to be anti-Semitic. In its statement on the synagogue shooting in Poway on Saturday, the Zionist Organization of America called [...]

New York – Alan Dershowitz was among dozens of protesters outside the offices of The New York Times in Midtown Manhattan who decried the newspaper’s publication of a cartoon with anti-Semitic imagery. The demonstrators on Monday night chanted “shame on you” and carried signs reading “Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic, NYT Guilty” and “NYT guilty of 120 years [...]

Poway, CA – The man accused of opening fire inside a Southern California synagogue was a star scholar, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism has dumbfounded his family and others who thought they knew him well. John T. Earnest, 19, made the dean’s list both semesters last year as a nursing [...]

Frankfurt – Not far from the glass and steel towers of Germany’s banking capital, a 22-year-old Arabian mare is causing a stir with her languid daily strolls through a Frankfurt neighborhood. Owner Werner Weischedel says his old nag Jenny, who’s recently found social media fame after a local news show about it went viral, has [...]

New York – New York City has banned alcohol advertising on city property, citing health risks posed by excessive drinking. “This order banning alcohol ads from City property reaffirms our commitment to health equity and our stand to protect the well-being of all New Yorkers,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said [...]

Poway, CA – The man accused of opening fire inside a Southern California synagogue was a star scholar, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism has dumbfounded his family and others who thought they knew him well. John T. Earnest, 19, made the dean’s list both semesters last year as a nursing [...]

Jerusalem – An ultra-Orthodox rabbi is not the image that comes to mind when picturing a man recounting the Nazis’ horrors. Maybe because it seems paradoxical that someone could devote himself to God in such a way after having experienced firsthand “God’s absence” during the Shoah. Neither would you expect to see a hassidic rabbi [...]

Jerusalem – Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the French ambassador to protest remarks made by the former French envoy to Washington, in which he called Israel an “apartheid state.” Former ambassador Gerard Araud on Tuesday replied to reports that Israel had summoned Ambassador Helene Le Gal. Araud defended his comments to The Atlantic [...]

Beirut – They make threats from their hideaway lairs and celebrate mass attacks. The ending isn’t scripted for these hunted men with horrifying death tolls on their hands. When the reclusive Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared in a video Monday, he was the latest in a series of most-wanted figures to use [...]

Jerusalem – Members of Israel’s parliament are being sworn in at the Knesset, the country’s legislature, three weeks after a tumultuous national election. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday delivered a message of national unity to the 120 members of parliament ahead of the swearing in ceremony in Jerusalem, calling upon them “to fight for [...]