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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Credit: Prime Minister's Office via Twitter.

Australian Jewish leader says embassy move to Jerusalem would ‘right a longstanding injustice’

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday that he would consider moving the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would mark a major shift in policy in support of...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Washington Post’: Failed Paris attack raises fear in Europe that Iran is planning more...

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The failed terror attack earlier this year in Paris has “sparked growing anxiety” in numerous European countries, the United States, and Israel, that Iran is increasing its intelligence activities abroad in preparation for more “audacious”...
Palestinian protesters wave flags during a protest against the U.S. decision earlier this year to cut U.N. aid funds to Palestinians in Bethlehem, on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

UNRWA announces job with overly high salary, benefits

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Despite major budget cuts, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) posted a job last month paying 14 times the average annual Palestinian income. The position of director of external relations...
The Klarsfelds in Jerusalem in 2007. Source: The Klarsfeld Foundation.

France bestows its highest award to Nazi-hunter couple

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Famed French Nazi-hunters Serge Klarsfeld and his German wife, Beate, received the highest honors last week in a ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron. France’s highest award, the Grand Cross of the Legion of...
Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Israel boycotters disrupt Holocaust film in Berlin

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Two supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign disrupted the showing of a Holocaust movie in Berlin, holding up a banner bearing their message in front of the screen, Benjamin Weinthal reported on...
View of the Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli side of the border on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Documentary on Gaza by French public television ‘will incite hatred against Jews’

A great number of members of the Jewish community in France have expressed their deep concern regarding the broadcast on Thursday evening by French public-television Channel France 2 of a report on Gaza that...
The Le Petit Cambodge restaurant—site of one of six coordinated Islamist terror attacks in Paris on Friday—with a makeshift memorial of flowers and blood staining the ground on the day after the attacks. Credit: Maya-Anaïs Yataghène via Wikimedia Commons.

French say ‘Non’ to Islamist performer at Bataclan

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A series of Islamist terrorist attacks shook the city of Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. One hundred thirty people were killed and hundreds others injured in coordinated shootings and a suicide bombing that hit the Bataclan...
Railway station in Omsk, Russia, in southwest Siberia. Credit: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Russia to deport Siberia’s chief rabbi over ‘espionage’

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A Russian court has ordered Siberia’s Chief Rabbi Asher Krichevsky deported, along with his wife and six children for alleged espionage. The court in Omsk, the second-largest city in Siberia, rejected an appeal by Krichevsky...

William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer win the Nobel Prize in Economics in...

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Americans William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics 2018. The first to integrate climate change into economic analysis by determining the costs and benefits of reducing...
Nadia Murad, a prominent Yezidi human-rights activist and survivor of ISIS gender-based violence, delivers remarks at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 25, 2018. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of State/Flickr.

Nadia Murad, former ISIS slave, wins Nobel Peace Prize

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A former sex slave of the Islamic State, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Nadia Murad escaped from her captors in 2014 and has since fought on behalf of those affected by sexual violence as an act...