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BREAKING NEWS

The wife of a Jewish U.S. aid worker jailed in Cuba accused of being a spy has written a letter to the country's president expressing his regret.

New Zealand Jewish life is in jeopardy if the community loses its legal battle over the ban on kosher slaughter, Jewish leaders there warned.

A U.S. Jewish group has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind its decisoin to award an honorary Oscar to a filmmaker it calls "a virulent anti-Semite."

A Republican Congress would seek to remove funding for Israel from the foreign operations budget, a GOP leader said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Palestinians to refrain from taking unilateral steps toward achieving a state.

The Russian census under way will show a Jewish decline of as much as 25 percent, a specialist on Russian Jewish demography predicts.

A billionaire with Israeli and Ukrainian citizenship has been named the new president of the European Council of Jewish Communities.

Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita is promoting his own world championship bout.

Five mortar shells were fired from Gaza at southern Israel.

The Israeli journalist who received classified Israeli military documents from a former soldier returned to Israel for questioning after nearly a year.

An Israeli Knesset committee advanced a bill that would give national priority to Jerusalem in areas such as housing construction and education.

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers have written to the president of a private university in the state about a professor who made anti-Israel statements at a rally.

Police moved in to prevent further clashes between Jewish and Arab residents in Safed after the Israeli city's chief rabbi asked Jews not to rent to non-Jews.

A meeting of Mideast bishops declared that Israel cannot use the Bible to justify territorial claims to land in Israel.

A U.S. appeals court ordered that a lower court's reference to a group's association with Hamas be partially expunged.

An Israeli chess grandmaster set a world record by playing 527 ranked players simultaneously and winning 87 percent of the matches.