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Iran's appointment of a defense minister wanted in an Argentina JCC bombing is a "step back" from engagement with the United States, a State Department official said.

Sweden's foreign minister canceled a scheduled trip to Israel.

There is strong American support for Israel and its proposal to end new settlement and allow growth in existing settlements, a new poll shows.

A crowd of 500 demonstrators, including neo-Nazis and skinheads, rampaged in Budapest's Jewish district.

Three Jewish seminaries across the denominational spectrum will receive a total of $12 million to help train new Jewish educators.

Russia denied that a cargo ship reportedly seized by pirates was carrying weapons bound for Iran.

UNRWA denied quotes diminishing the Holocaust attributed to its officials.

A Palestinian Authority minister says he will not meet again with Israeli officials in the near future.

The executive director of the American Jewish Committee was elected to a visiting post at Oxford University.

The final charter aliyah flight of the summer, carrying dozens of single Jewish immigrants, landed in Israel.

A Canadian university's task force report fails to address the real issue of anti-Semitism, a Jewish group claims.

Most of the new West Bank construction permits approved were for places that were already approved or where work is under way, an Israeli daily reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was incommunicado and said to be in a sensitive security compound for nearly 12 hours.

Some 25,000 Jews from all over the world are expected to make the annual pilgrimage to the central Ukrainian city of Uman.

Hundreds of activists attended a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for a new neighborhood connecting the West Bank city of Maaleh Adumim with Jerusalem.

A special report released in Israel says convicted spy Jonathan Pollard did not receive due process in America and that successive Israeli governments worked for his release.

Female attorneys in Gaza are not required to wear a head covering in court, Gaza's Hamas government said.

Israel's defense minister has approved the construction of about 455 new housing units in the West Bank.

Israelis and Palestinians are on a path to forming one state, Jimmy Carter said.

A secret military intelligence committee determined that missing Israeli airman Ron Arad died in Lebanon in the mid-1990s, an Israeli newspaper reported.

Gerald Posner, a founder and the former publisher of The Jewish Journal-Boston North newspaper, has died.

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