Council of Europe seeks ban on circumcision without ‘requisite skill’

Non-binding recommendation says ritual should only be allowed under ‘appropriate medical and health conditions’

Obama administration earmarks $12m for Holocaust survivors

Funds to be distributed over five years; one-quarter of 130,000 US victims of Nazi persecution live under poverty line

Reconstructionists to ordain rabbis with non-Jewish partners

‘We understand these passionate Jews to be part of our Jewish future,’ says president of movement’s rabbinical college

Saban said to quit anti-BDS campus initiative he launched with Adelson

Entertainment mogul reportedly opposed ‘right-wing tilt’; introducing alliance in June, the pair had made light of their political differences

Bernie Sanders campaign claims over a million donors

Democratic presidential hopeful says he is fastest candidate to reach milestone, touts grassroots support

South Africa won’t push ‘anti-Semitic’ dual citizenship ban

Minister denies changes planned in policy, after Pretoria discussed law to prevent Jews from joining IDF

Hurricane Joaquin: Can Jews take down their sukkahs for a storm?

Category 3 storm may not make landfall but it is expected to bring as much as 50 cm of rain to Georgia, the Carolinas, Maryland, Delaware and NJ

How layers of migration wrote the story of Europe

Current crisis is only the latest in a long history of arrivals who defined and enriched European civilization

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Seven indicted over suspected Islamic State terror plot in Israel

Israeli Arab terror cell purchased weapons, gathered intelligence and planned to carry out attacks near Nazareth, Shin Bet says

Evangelicals flock to Jerusalem for Israel love fest

Christian pilgrims from around world, including some countries hostile to Israel, join parade in the capital’s streets on Thursday

‘Top aide’ to PM questioned for fraud, breach of trust

Suspect said to have advanced interests of firm owned by a relative; her husband reportedly runs a large PR firm that works with politicians

Israeli airline to compensate 5 Arabs for discrimination

Citing nonexistent security regulation outlawing five or more members of minority group traveling together, Israir tried to kick passenger off flight to Eilat

The surgeon who gave Zion a pair of hands

In a world first, Dr. L. Scott Levin led 40-strong team in a historic double-hand transplant on 8-year-old Philly boy

Israel’s English TV news enters the twilight zone

Five of seven staffers are leaving Wednesday, and departing editor has no idea what, if anything, will be broadcast as of Thursday

With small victories, religious pluralism finds way back to Jerusalem

From providing study grants to non-Orthodox institutions to cafés open on Shabbat, kippah-wearing city councilor Hanan Rubin wants the capital to be a city for everyone

Headed to prison for Syria visit, ex-lawmaker vows to fight travel ban

Israeli Druze are the only minority group still barred from visiting ‘enemy states,’ charges former MK Said Nafa