Turkish police on Thursday captured a Daesh terrorist plotting to attack synagogues and Jewish schools in Istanbul. The terrorist, identified as Uzbek national Abdulmalik A., belongs to Daesh’s ...

Syria’s small Jewish community held its first group prayer in decades Wednesday at a Damascus synagogue, celebrating the long-awaited revival of public worship. In the Faranj synagogue, ...

A Montreal synagogue was graffitied with a swastika on Shabbat, drawing condemnation from Canadian officials as well as a defiant response from the synagogue’s rabbi. A congregant at Temple ...

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny ...

Pope Francis is unable to deliver his traditional Angelus prayer in person, with the Vatican publishing a text. The Pope has been battling pneumonia for two weeks and suffered an "isolated ...

A week of spectacular lava sprays on Sicily’s snow-capped Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanos, has drawn thousands of people wanting to see the eruption. But the sudden influx ...

(CBC) A Montreal rabbi is speaking out after she found antisemitic vandalism at a synagogue in Westmount. In a video posted to Facebook on Sunday, Rabbi Lisa Grushcow said she found a ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. Montreal police have opened an investigation after an antisemitic symbol was spray-painted on a synagogue over the weekend. Rabbi Lisa Grushcow said in a video ...

(What made them crafty? They smuggled the remains to Italy in barrels of pork fat.) Crafted from many different styles of architecture, today the basilica's opulence shines from nearly every ...

Nestled within the heart of Old Cairo, the Ben Ezra Synagogue is a silent witness to Egypt’s once-thriving Jewish community. Thought to be over 1,000 years old, legend holds that this is the very site ...

Jewish communities are concentrated in cities like Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, and Helsingborg, but there are also smaller, yet active, Jewish associations and synagogues in cities such as ...

A man who fired a gun in the air outside of an Albany, New York, synagogue while shouting “Free Palestine!” has pleaded guilty to hate crime and firearms charges. The Justice Department ...