For the second week in a row, confrontations developed between ultra-Orthodox protesters and secular Israelis at the recently opened BaSimta café, the only business in the central Jerusalem neighbourhood that is open on Shabbat

An AP-NORC poll finds a third of Jewish adults feel unsafe in the U.S. today, and 6 in 10 feel less safe than before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack – with many now less likely to wear or display Jewish symbols

Barbara Harshav, acclaimed translator of works by Agnon, Amichai and Sutzkever, dies at 85

In 1966, Roman Frister reported on a theft at a library and bored UN guards and the only war was between two neighboring kibbutzim. So why were Palestinians abducting people to Gaza?

Israeli police detained the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, after he finished delivering a sermon and leading Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque; he was released shortly after and banned for a week

One morning, the Hathaleen family of Umm al-Khair discovered that their outhouse had fallen within the illegally expanding boundaries of the nearby Carmel settlement. Then the IDF made things even worse. The family now has to cross the road to use the neighbors' toilet

At a Shabbat dinner in Yerevan, Jewish attendees expressed optimism that Israel's recognition of the Armenian genocide would improve ties between the countries in the long term; 'This is the best time for our countries to get closer,' said one educator