The Ma’an News Agency reports that 40 of the 400 current Waqf employees are banned from entering the holy site

Founding editor of Kosher Gourmet Magazine passes away in Jerusalem after years battling lung cancer

Virginia rabbi leaves advocacy group after 10 months, but doesn’t elaborate why

‘A community lives and dies by where the women are,’ says Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project head Lori Palatnik

Washington Post: Recent rise in anti-Israel activism prompts communities to up defenses against possible hate crimes

Six-foot black woman Ilana Kaufman sometimes gets strange looks when representing the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation

Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, arrested on suspicion of trying to give designs of new American aircraft carrier to Cairo

Backers of Mideast’s most extremist group are laying low after surprise show of strength in protests last summer