Tehran – Lev Tahor, a fringe haredi Orthodox sect, requested political asylum from the Iranian government. In its request, the group “declared their loyalty and submission to the Supreme Leader and Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” It asks for “asylum, protection and religious freedom of the families of its loyal members,” and also […]

United Nations – U.S. President Donald Trump says another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “could happen soon.” Trump didn’t elaborate Monday at the start of UN meetings in New York about a possible fourth meeting with Kim over the North’s expanding nuclear program. North Korean nuclear talks have been stalled despite past […]

Jerusalem – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, to his residence on Monday in an effort to sway the leaders of the two largest Knesset factions to form a unity government and end the political gridlock that has emerged from the country’s Sept. 17 election. […]

Washington – The top Senate Democrat is calling on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to investigate a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. Chuck Schumer says in a letter Monday to McConnell that the Republicans’ “see no evil, hear no evil” attitude toward the president’s actions “is unacceptable and must change.” The New […]

In the latest episode in the ongoing political saga in Israel, the Balad faction of the Joint Arab List announced Monday that they were not included in the recommendation submitted to President Rivlin Sunday by the Arab party to enable Blue-And-White leader Benny Gantz to form a government. The significance of this is that, after […]

Tehran- Iran is no longer limited by its geographic borders, and has the ability to destroy Israel in “half a day,” said Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda on Friday. Alamolhoda, the representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Khorasan Razavi province, said during a televised sermon on Friday that the Islamic Republic was no […]

London- Hundreds of thousands of travelers were stranded across the world Monday after British tour company Thomas Cook collapsed, immediately halting almost all its flights and hotel services and laying off all its employees. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed Thomas Cook, a 178-year-old company that helped create the package tour industry, had ceased trading. It […]

Sofia — Bulgaria’s Jewish community opened its first Jewish school in over 20 years. The opening last week of the Ronald S. Lauder Day School in Sofia is a significant development for the some 6,000 members of the Jewish minority in Bulgaria. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress and a major donor to […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced widespread criticism from politicians and lawmakers concerned about the anti-conservative bias of the social media platform as well as its monopolizing the market. On Thursday Zuckerberg himself went to Washington to meet with some of Facebook’s most vociferous detractors, including President Trump himself. The meeting with Trump seemingly went […]

Last week, WeWork, the shared-space startup which has grown exponentially over the past few years, decide to delay its much-anticipated stock-market listing, amid speculations that the company is overvalued. Issues of corporate governance and leadership have also come to the fore, with WeWork founder Adam Neumann exposed for his eccentric behaviour on a number of […]