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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has emphatically encouraged dialogue with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, despite his disagreements with the center-right pro-Israel lobby and calls among the pro-Palestinian community to disengage from the group.

Sen. Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat who is a stalwart of the mainstream pro-Israel lobby in the Senate, told Benjamin Netanyahu that his partnership with an extremist leader could shatter support for Israel in the United States.

Babies have a one in 365 chance of being born on any given date, with the exception of February 29, when the odds go down to 1 in 1,461.

While across the US, the college scene breeds antisemitism and delegitimizes Israel, IDF veterans have decided to fight for truth by sharing their personal stories of valor, tragedy and triumph—the collective story of Israelis in Israel.

Rolling Stone reporter EJ Dickson wrote an article on Sunday for the magazine about the rise in popularity of the Miami Jewish Boys Choir, where she said that it's "probably not a great idea to ask any of them about their opinions on Israel and Palestine."

The 38th Haifa International Film Festival, which will run from October 8-17 at the Haifa Cinematheque and other theaters around the city, will feature a varied selection of the best of recent world cinema, as well as new films from Israel.

A couple of years ago on Yom Kippur, my partner and I decided to walk to the park across the street from our home in Ramat Gan. We sat down and noticed a group of boys, who looked around 10, sprawled out on benches nearby. Their bikes littered the ground as they stared at their phones and tablets, transfixed by the games and videos emitting from their screens.

Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov will be sending his three teenage sons – 14, 15 and 16 years old, respectively – to the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia War, he said in a Telegram message on Monday.

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The European Union called on Israel to halt West Bank settlements and to preserve the status quo on the Temple Mount after it held the first EU-Israel Association Council meeting in a decade designed to improve ties.

An 18-year-old teenager from Maine who was arrested in February for possession of explosives will face terrorism and conspiracy charges for plotting to murder worshippers at mosques and synagogues, a secret FBI search warrant obtained by ABC-7 in Chicago discovered.

Florida's human residence are not the only ones having to adjust to a new life in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian - Florida's racoon population was affected, too.

An international collaboration between birdsong scientists and musicians has found a similarity between the way songbirds and humans compose music, according to a study published last Friday.

Yom Kippur is a bubble in time; the holiest day of the year; the most meaningful day of all.

A "mystery gene" that matures the skeleton of the cell has been identified, according to a study published last Thursday.

Former CIA director and retired four-star army general David Petraeus warned Sunday that the US army would destroy the Russian army if they were to use nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil.

I am a sucker for extreme sports — or at least reading about them. My ideal Sunday afternoon involves a comfy chair and a thick book or Netflix documentary about mountain climbers trying to escape an avalanche, or an ultra-runner suffering during a 24-hour race.

The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies called on Football Australia on Sunday to declare lifetime bans for fans that displayed Nazi salutes and symbols during the Australia Cup final on Saturday night, according to CNN.

A group of Jewish gun owners filed a lawsuit last Friday against Gov. Kathy Hochul's gun laws, saying they infringe on their religious freedom as well as their right to bear arms.

October 2022 marks the return of the Orionid meteor shower, an annual month-long nightly showing of meteors in the sky.

Mahatma Gandhi, considered the father of India, was a lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who led the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. A Hindu, he grew up observing Vaishnavism, the worship of the Hindu god Vishnu, as well as in the Indian religious tradition of Jainism, with its observance of nonviolence and the belief that everything in the universe is eternal.

American Jewish comedian Sam Morril uploaded a video to his TikTok and Twitter accounts on Monday showing his response to a heckler shouting out "free Palestine" at one of his shows.

Scientists have unlocked genetic mysteries behind finer silk, according to a study published a couple of weeks ago.

Making their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces recaptured several villages in a tank-led advance along the west bank of the strategic Dnipro River on Monday, Ukrainian officials and a Russian-installed leader in the area confirmed.

Ruben Ostlund's Triangle of Sadness, which opens in theaters throughout Israel on October 6, is an over-the-top satire about the class system in the social-media age, along with some commentary about how traditional male and female roles are and aren't changing.

Yom Kippur, the Jewish judgement day and Day of Atonement is about to arrive, and four asteroids are coming along with it, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

Benny Shlomo, the head of a senior criminal organization, was shot and killed at a gas station on the Shiva road near Azor. Another 40-year-old man was seriously injured by the gunfire.

With very few exceptions, within 10 or 20 years, no one will remember Jerusalem as it once was – with single-story houses and shops or apartment and office complexes that rarely extended beyond four floors. The obsession that Mayor Moshe Lion has for urban renewal has gradually eroded the character of Jerusalem, turning it into the Hong Kong or Manhattan of the Middle East.

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday acquitted a 50-year-old Iranian-Israeli woman of spying for Tehran, in the first decision in a wider case involving four other defendants also accused of spying.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid pledged his support for a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and spoke of his opposition to the revival of the 2015 Iran deal on Monday, when he addressed the first European Union-Israel Association Council meeting to be held in a decade.