Israeli director Guy Nattiv won an Academy Award for best live-action short for his film Skin at the Oscars on Sunday evening, February 24. “Oh my God. I moved here five years ago from Israel… Laila tov [good night] Israel, hi!” he said upon receiving the award. “My grandparents are Holocaust...

In a radio interview with NPR on Tuesday during a visit to Washington D.C., former British Prime Minister Tony Blair lay the blame for the Labour Party’s ongoing anti-Semitism crisis at the feet of Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the party, and his far-left supporters. Blair, a staunch ally of...

Australia and Denmark slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday for its bias against Israel when they spoke at the opening of the council’s 40th session in Geneva, The Jerusalem Post reported. The two nations urged the UNHRC to drop the contentious Agenda Item 7, which mandates...

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, under whose rule an estimated 500,000 were killed during a seven-year civil war, was welcomed to Iran by top government officials, Reuters reported Monday. It was Assad’s first visit to Iran since 2010. The Syria ruler was embraced by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to Syrian...

The British Labour Party opposed on Tuesday plans by the government to ban the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah in its entirety, charging that Home Secretary Sajid Javid has failed to produce “any clear evidence” why the group should be outlawed, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Instead, a Labour spokesperson asserted that...

Intruders broke into the house of Argentina’s chief rabbi, stole money, beat him, and seriously injured him, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. A statement from Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), the Jewish communal organization in Buenos Aires, said that a group of strangers broke into the home Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich at...

After months of review, researchers concluded that the Iranian nuclear archive seized by Israel last year is “rich in new information” about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear aspirations and raises doubts about its commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons. The results of the study were published in a paper Monday. The researchers —...

In the 40 years since the 1979 founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran’s unelected management — namely the supreme leader and his mullahcratic appointees — has been consistently anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Semitic.  In contrast, the elected leadership — the president and the speaker of parliament—have been more malleable,...

Israeli snack-food empire Osem has doubled production of Bamba, its bestselling crunchy peanut snack, making it available in major overseas retailers such as Walmart. Consumer surveys show that Bamba already is found in virtually every Israeli home. And it has been sold for years in kosher markets and specialty shops...

New anti-Semitic graffiti has been found in and around Paris in two separate incidents on February 19 and 21 as France struggles to find answers to its anti-Semitism crisis, JNS reported on Monday. Several inscriptions, featuring swastikas and the words “Death to the Jews” and ‘’Dirty Jew,’’ were discovered in...