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Israel's army believes that the southern city of Ashdod could soon be in the cross hairs of Gaza Strip terrorists.

Rabbi Michael "Mickey" Rosen, who founded a network of progressive Orthodox synagogues in Israel, has died.

President-elect Barack Obama said Iran's "threats against Israel are contrary to everything that we believe in and what the international community should accept."

U.S. Jewish groups for the most part backed Israel's evacuation of settlers from a Hebron building and condemned settler violence.

Joza Karas, a Czech musician who collected music composed by Jewish inmates at the Terezin concentration camp, has died.

President Bush wants a Palestinian leader to address the "freedom institute" he plans to establish once he leaves office.

Members of the Likud Party are going to the polls to elect the opposition party's Knesset list.

At least 20 Kassam rockets and mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip hit the western Negev over the weekend.

The government of Czechoslovakia will work to improve ties between Israel and the European Union.

Two Reform movement leaders joined an interfaith letter urging President-elect Barack Obama to make Middle East peace a priority.

A planned Israeli release of Palestinian prisoners has been postponed. Editors' Picks The return of anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism, never really dead in Europe, is rearing its ugly head with increasing intensity. While JTA and the Jewish press have kept a constant watch, the international media appear to be taking note now, too. Jews fit to print From a profile of an eclectic, peace-loving West Bank rabbi to an examination of the Jewish ancestry of Spanish Catholics, The New York Times had a bevy of Jewish-related stories over the last few days. Bush, the Middle East and the full Bilbassy President Bush and Condoleezza Rice blitzed the media this weekend with apologias -- sort of -- for their Middle East policies. Political Tidbits: Obama's advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski claims Israel is lobbying for a U.S. strike on Iran. Will Dennis Ross or Daniel Kurtzer prevail in the battle for Obama's ear on the Mideast? David Ignatius looks at James Jones' performance as special envoy for Mideast security in the Bush administration.