Israel's plan to include West Bank religious sites in a Jewish heritage plan is a clear provocation but the Palestinians will not be dragged into violence, the Palestinian prime minister said.

In the east Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, the Ohr Avner-Levi Yitzchak Schneerson Day School hosted the opening program of the Chavaya International Winter Camp 2010.

Israeli and U.S. officials held strategic talks over Iran's nuclear threat and Middle East peace.

A Jewish Democratic U.S. congressman slammed President Obama for reappointing an ambassador to Syria.
New York Rep. Eliot Engel called Obama's appointment last week of Robert Ford a "mistake."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah met Thursday evening in Damascus along with their senior advisors, and discussed regional developments and “the zionist threat,” it was revealed Friday.

A bipartisan slate of U.S. Congress members urged the Obama administration to keep the Goldstone report from advancing to the International Court of Justice.

An influential Jewish political action committee switched its endorsement in a Chicago-area congressional race to a Democrat for the first time in years.

The Agudath Israel Council of Torah Sages has issued a statement suggesting that a New York rabbi should no longer be considered Orthodox because of his decision to ordain a woman.

Internal strife within Hamas over a deal for a prisoner swap with Israel has led to the resignation of Mahmoud A-Zahar, a senior member of the negotiating team

The suspected killers of Hamas strongman Mahmud al-Mabhuh last month in Dubai used forged French passports, effectively stealing the identity of French citizens.