Source: Reuters EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May pledged on Monday to protect British Jewish identity and Israel’s right to defend itself, in an attack on opposition leader Jeremy […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government announced Monday that it agreed to absorb 1,000 Ethiopian Jews — accepting just a fraction of the African country’s 8,000 remaining […]
Source: BBC News Russia has said Syria shot down one of its military planes – but laid the blame for the deaths of the 15 personnel on board with Israel. […]
Source: The Guardian By Avi Shlaim Twenty-five years ago today the Oslo accord was signed by Israel’s prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat in the Rose Garden […]
Source: CNN By Euan McKirdy and Sarah El Sirgany (CNN) Saudi authorities have arrested an Arab man who appeared in video having breakfast with a female work colleague. The Ministry of Labor […]
Source: The New York Times By Rukmini Callimachi The last vestige of the Islamic State’s caliphate that straddled Syria and Iraq is under attack. Members of an American-backed coalition said […]
‘I want to be a doctor, not a rabbi’: how Israeli ultra-Orthodox are being drawn into work Source: The Guardian From the age of three, Yehuda Sabiner harboured a secret […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By SARAH PARVINI Even as it cracked down on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa, the Trump administration stressed that the safety […]
Source: Fox News By Tom Metcalfe When Mustafa Şahin first saw photographs of the submerged ancient church under the waves of Turkey’s Lake Iznik, he couldn’t quite believe what he […]
Source: The Washington Post By Loveday Morris September 1 ISFIYA, Israel — At a military cemetery lined by conifers on the wooded slopes of Israel’s Mount Carmel, Safwan Marich walks beside the […]
Source: BBC News Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected appeals against the demolition of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank whose fate has been a subject of international concern. […]
Saudi Arabia Seeks Death Penalty in Trial of Outspoken Cleric Source: The New York Times By Ben Hubbard LONDON — Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Priyadarshini Sen MANIPUR, India (RNS) — Wearing a pale-yellow tallit — the traditional Jewish prayer shawl — Aharon Vaiphei points to a map of Jerusalem […]
Source: Al Jazeera By Umut Uras A US pastor under house arrest in Turkey is prepared take his case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unless the Turkish judiciary sets […]
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi and agencies An Indian chess champion has withdrawn from an international competition in Iran, saying a rule requiring her to wear a headscarf would violate her human […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan ADEN, Yemen — A white Toyota Corolla pulled up next to Safwan al-Sharjabi as he walked along a crowded road one evening this spring after […]
Source: The Guardian Farhad Meysami accused of having badges saying he was against the compulsory hijab BY Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent Farhad Meysami faces multiple charges, including threatening national […]
Source: USA Today TEHRAN, Iran – In a large room off a courtyard decorated in places with Islamic calligraphy and patterned tiles featuring intricate geometric shapes and patterns, men wearing tunics, cloaks […]
Source: The Guardian BY Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent “It was almost winter and Bear was getting sleepy,” the Iranian cleric reads aloud. He has taken off his clerical robe, put aside […]
Source: BBC News UN human rights experts believe war crimes may have been committed by all parties to the conflict in Yemen. In their first such report, they allege Yemeni […]