A second Hamas minister returned to the Gaza Strip with money en route to the Palestinian Authority government.

Ehud Olmert praised France for its efforts to combat anti-Semitism.

Islamic Jihad members fired a round of Kassam rockets into Israel, lightly injuring three people in the town of Sderot.

Jewish leaders in Uzbekistan believe the murder of an assistant to the country's chief rabbi may have been motivated by anti-Semitism.

Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie is not planning to meet with Israeli President Moshe Katsav because Katsav has refused to address him as a rabbi.

The U.S. Treasury blocked the assets of four Chinese companies and a U.S. company for supporting Iranian missile proliferation.

Opponents of sales of Caterpillar bulldozers to the Israeli military failed in a resolution they hoped would move the company toward "greater accountability."

A leading Russian rabbi said marriages between Russian Jews and Muslims are the best proof of possible interfaith harmony.

An Australian candidate of Syrian descent will meet with members of Melbourne's Jewish community in a bid to save his political future.

Several Jewish-themed films made a list of the 100 most inspiring movies of all time.

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian gunman during a raid of the West Bank city of Jenin.

A French court sentenced 25 Islamists for plotting terrorist attacks in Paris that may have included Israeli targets.

Kofi Annan questioned reports that a Palestinian mine was behind the killing of at least seven picnickers last week on a Gaza Strip beach.

A Jewish kindergarten in Belarus was forced to remove Jewish symbols from classrooms after a prosecutor accused the teacher of violating the country's religious law.

Hamas might offer a 50- to 60-year truce if Israel withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a top Palestinian adviser said.

New York state health officials and Orthodox rabbis reached an agreement on a controversial circumcision procedure.

The former cantor of a New York City synagogue pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his nephew.

An American couple were honored for their efforts to rescue Jews during World War II.

Former inmates of Nazi prison camps in Tunisia may apply for compensation from Germany.

Australia's oldest Jew, Holocaust survivor Irma Stahler, celebrated her 107th birthday last week.

Nine Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Fatah activists set on fire the Palestinian Authority Cabinet building in Ramallah.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal on a Holocaust compensation case.

Britain's Tony Blair stopped short of endorsing Ehud Olmert's unilateral West Bank withdrawal plan.

The Red Cross increased the amount in its 2006 budget for Israel and the Palestinian territories by more than $8 million.

Birthright israel alumni identify more strongly with Israel and the Jewish community than do peers who applied but did not go on the program, a study found.

Israel reportedly is drafting a plan for a West Bank withdrawal that officials hope might be carried out in coordination with Mahmoud Abbas.

Sweden backed away from a decision to label wine made in the Golan Heights as coming from occupied territory.

Poland cracked down on hate speech and Web sites following a knife attack on a man who had been targeted by a neo-Nazi Web site.

Israel's Supreme Court ruled that Yitzhak Rabin's assassin and his wife could try to have a child through artificial insemination.

Israel's defense minister rejected a proposal by army officials to launch a broad offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners who helped author a proposal implicitly recognizing Israel withdrew their names from the plan.

Iranian officials gave a mixed reaction to a U.N. Security Council proposal aimed at persuading Iran to abandon its nuclear enrichment program.

Israeli airstrikes killed two suspected Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

A protest against Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was held before Iran's match against Mexico in soccer's World Cup.

Five people were killed and at least 40 injured when a commuter train hit a truck in central Israel.

A recommendation by a British teachers union to boycott Israeli academics was overturned.

An American student was briefly held by Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel's Supreme Court ordered the state and Israel's Conservative movement to find a compromise over egalitarian prayers at the Western Wall.

Participants at a conference in Ukraine made anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements.

Hamas vowed revenge after Israel killed a top terrorist.

Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians, including several children, in retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip.

The secretary to Central Asia's chief rabbi and her mother were strangled in their apartment.

Most Israelis oppose Ehud Olmert's plan to withdraw from parts of the West Bank.

Osama bin Laden's deputy urged Palestinians to reject a referendum on coexistence with Israel.

Ehud Olmert congratulated President Bush on the killing of the Al-Qaida chief in Iraq.

A Sudanese tribal leader blamed Jews for the conflict in Darfur.

Iran's uranium enrichment is continuing while it considers an incentives package from world powers to suspend the activity, nuclear inspectors said.

Mahmoud Abbas reportedly is set to announce a referendum on coexistence with Israel.

An association of Orthodox rabbis and Israel's Chief Rabbinate agreed to form a joint commission to investigate matters of conversion.

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's foreign minister had opposing reactions to the death of Al-Qaida's leader in Iraq.

Jordan's King Abdullah II urged Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians near the Gaza Strip border fence.

The French government and the national railroad association lost a court case regarding their role in deporting Jews during World War II.

A Muslim group is reportedly demanding that a school system in Maryland remove Jewish holidays from its calendar.

Israel passed its 2006 budget.

A South African labor union backed a Canadian union's boycott of Israel.

Israel extended the term of its ambassador to the United States.

Sweden is labeling Israeli wines produced in the Golan Heights as coming from an occupied territory.

A former reality show contestant married his girlfriend in a traditional Jewish ceremony.

A constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage was defeated in the U.S. Senate on a procedural vote.

U.S. nuclear technology and aircraft parts would be part of an incentives package to get Iran to stop enriching uranium, a report said.

Israeli officials accused Hamas of being involved in recent rocket attacks against Israel.

Palestinian cells sympathetic to Al-Qaida have been cracked in Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israel's Shin Bet chief said.

A former chief justice in Alabama who had displayed the Ten Commandments in his court lost a Republican primary for governor.

The U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee slammed the Justice Department for its broad interpretation of a 90-year-old statute used to indict two former pro-Israel lobbyists.

A plan to change the way American Jewish federations allocate funds to national agencies failed to come up for a vote at governance meetings of the United Jewish Communities.

Israel is paying for the medical treatment of a Palestinian girl wounded during an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Germany's secular Jewish community will be headed by a woman for what is believed to be the first time.

A worker was killed in a construction accident at a Jewish ritual bath in New York City.

Mahmoud Abbas postponed a deadline for Hamas to accept a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or face a Palestinian referendum.

The U.S. government declassified more than 8 million pages of files related to Nazi war crimes.

Ehud Olmert is expected to visit Jordan on Thursday for talks with King Abdullah II.

A U.N. commission recommended that Israel refrain from manufacturing any more nuclear weapons as a step to a nuclear-free Middle East.

Israel is on a U.S. State Department watch list of nations that fail to effectively prevent human trafficking.

Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank have reportedly been trying to boost their bombs by adding chemical toxins.

A Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress told Jews in Minnesota that he was wrong to dismiss concerns that the Rev. Louis Farrakhan is anti-Semitic.

The birthright israel program celebrated the arrival in Israel of its 100,000 participant.

A planned JCC in California received a $10 million grant.

An observant Jew failed in his bid to become Donald Trump's next apprentice.

Five Palestinians died in a clash between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in Gaza.

Israel's Ehud Olmert met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Orthodox Union was slated to meet with President Bush before he formally declares support for a constitutional amendment on marriage.

Pro-Palestinian sentiment in Europe is waning, according to a top pollster.

Elie Wiesel led 62 Nobel laureates in urging President Bush to name a special envoy to Darfur.

Israel is cracking down on women who shirk mandatory military service by falsely claiming to be religiously observant.

A Unitarian minister and his wife from the United States will be named Righteous Gentiles.

An $8 million bequest to UJA-Federation of New York will be used to fund birthright israel trips and a depression treatment center.

The number of non-Orthodox Jewish ritual baths in North America is growing.

Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Israel's Ehud Olmert plans to meet with Mahmoud Abbas late next month.

Pope Benedict XVI referred specifically to anti-Semitism and wartime Jewish suffering.

The former investigative judge in the case of the bombing of an Argentine Jewish center was called to testify.

Seventy-five European lawmakers asked the European Union president to impose a travel ban on Iran's president.

Jewish groups welcomed a U.S. immigration bill that includes paths for undocumented immigrants to legalize their status.

A former CIA director came out against Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy.

Israel's unilateral West Bank withdrawal, if implemented, will take place in one stage, Ehud Olmert said.

A candidate forced off the ballot in a New Jersey election because he refused to compare the Sept. 11 terrorists to Palestinian suicide bombers is suing the Democrats.

Israel moved up 22 places in a ranking of world economic competitiveness.

A Jewish day school in Pennsylvania danced its way to what is believed to be a Guinness World Record.

Palestinian rockets landed near the home of Israel's defense minister.

The United States came one step closer to talking directly with Iran.

Resolutions introduced in the U.S. Congress call for any reference to Palestinian refugees to be matched by similar references to Jewish and other refugees.

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League criticized Pope Benedict XVI's address at Auschwitz.

Several Jewish groups set up funds to aid victims of the recent earthquake in Indonesia.

Poland's president expressed regret for an attack on the country's chief rabbi.

Iran's president will not come to Germany for soccer's World Cup.

Howard Dean urged Tony Blair to speak out against a British boycott of Israeli academics.

Israel served demolition orders against an illegal West Bank settler outpost.

A Jewish group raised $15,000 for Palestinian hospitals.

Israel sent troops into the Gaza Strip for the first time since it withdrew from the territory.

Israeli soldiers killed at least two Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank.

Israel's Ehud Olmert will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak next week.

British Jewish leaders blasted a decision by a British teachers union to recommend a boycott of Israel.

French Jewish officials are meeting with French officials following an anti-Semitic march in Paris.

The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee questioned the statute used to prosecute two former AIPAC lobbyists.

Iran's foreign minister denied Israel exists.

Israel threatened to revoke the residency rights of four Hamas officials living in eastern Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Municipality was ordered to pay out $70,000 to the city's gay and lesbian center.

William Shatner is in Israel to promote therapeutic horseback riding.

Hamas withdrew its militia from the streets of the Gaza Strip.

A leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad was killed in a car blast in Lebanon.

A Senate version of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act narrows its scope and restores presidential prerogatives.

Leading countries plan to meet next week in Europe to discuss Iran.

Israel agreed to transfer a limited amount of weapons to help guard Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Two Jewish student leaders in Poland have received anti-Semitic messages on their telephones.

Ehud Olmert is scheduled to visit London and Paris next month.

A teenager in Florida confessed to vandalizing a Judaica store.

Indonesia pledged assistance to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

A Minnesota congresswoman reconciled with AIPAC.

Mahmoud Abbas told Hamas that it has 10 days to accept a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or accept a Palestinian referendum on a two-state plan.

On the first day of his trip to Poland, Pope Benedict XVI failed to bless 41 Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust, as had been expected.

The United States deported a Palestinian who was acquitted of charges that he aided Islamic Jihad.

The Red Cross is expected to vote to admit Israel's emergency services agency next month.

The Church of Scotland called on European authorities to identify products made in Israel's West Bank settlements.

A British human-rights lawyer was temporarily barred from entering Israel.

Israelis celebrated Jerusalem Day.

The chairman of the Republican Party is slated to meet with top Israeli leaders.

The United States Postal Service will issue a stamp next week honoring an American diplomat who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.

An Israeli zoo is reportedly home to the world's tallest elephant in captivity.

Ehud Olmert commended the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a bill that cuts off assistance to the Palestinian Authority.

President Bush and Ehud Olmert agreed that a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians is preferable to an Israeli unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank.

Israeli troops killed at least three Palestinians in clashes that erupted during a West Bank arrest raid.

Anti-Semitism is a "current event," Condoleezza Rice said.

Saudi textbooks still promote hatred of Christians and Jews, a new study says.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that would cut off the Palestinian Authority and restrict humanitarian assistance.

Killings diminished in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Amnesty International said in its annual report.

A coalition including Jewish groups joined to oppose a U.S. amendment banning same-sex unions.

A Toronto family gave $50 million in stock donations to the city's Jewish federation.

The owner of a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants in the Detroit area has ties to Hezbollah, according to U.S. prosecutors.

Israel's ambassador to the United States played down expectations that Ehud Olmert would announce a peace summit Tuesday with Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel arrested a Hamas fugitive accused of masterminding several major suicide bombings.

Jordan plans to send a new ambassador to Israel after a yearlong hiatus.

Palestinians helped fund and train members of an Egyptian terrorist group allegedly behind terrorist attacks in the Sinai Desert, Egypt said.

A U.S. congressman plans to introduce an amendment that would condition U.S. funding of UNRWA on an independent audit.

China voiced hope that by hosting a Hamas official it would not jeopardize ties with Israel.

Yad Vashem's chairman reportedly called on the Israeli prime minister to let refugees from Darfur remain in Israel.

An effort is under way in Congress to end a dispute between the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a congresswoman.

Hillel pledged to double its numbers over the next five years.

A Maryland rabbi was indicted on charges relating to sexual overtures toward a minor.

Ehud Olmert is slated to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Monday.

Israeli officials are preparing to sue Iran's president at the International Court of Justice.

A U.S. congressman withdrew an amendment that would condition U.S. funding of UNRWA on an independent audit.

Ehud Olmert's top two deputies met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

The newly formed U.N. Human Rights Council is likely to be stacked against Israel, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.

Pope Benedict XVI is slated to bless 41 Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust when he visits Poland next week.

An Israeli aviation firm is suspected of violating arms-exports regulations to China.

The first woman ordained as a rabbi in the United States is retiring.

A Canadian newspaper withdrew a report that Iran had decided to make its Jews wear a yellow strip of material on their clothing.

"Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin" was performed at the site of the Terezin transit camp in the Czech Republic.

Israel will pay for emergency supplies for the Palestinians out of taxes it collects for them, Ehud Olmert said.

The United States opposes unilateral steps in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

An Israeli man and woman were injured when Palestinians fired on their car in the West Bank.

Forces loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confiscated more than $800,000 that a Hamas official tried to smuggle into the Gaza Strip.

A congresswoman says AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter.

U.S. Jewish groups are split on a constitutional marriage amendment approved by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum launched a blog on preventing genocide.

Kiev's new mayor said he would combat anti-Semitism in the Ukrainian capital.

The United States sought and received assurances from Saudi Arabia that it's not observing the Arab boycott of Israel.

Arab-American groups are raising money for the Palestinians.

Israel's defense minister ordered the evacuation of 12 settler outposts.

Millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority was used to buy weapons, Israel's Shin Bet security agency said.

Mahmoud Abbas deployed thousands of Palestinian Authority police in the Gaza Strip.

The leading Russian Jewish organization called on the community to boycott Reform Jews after a Reform rabbi officiated at what is believed to be the country's first Jewish same-sex commitment ceremony.

An aide to Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian Authority president would meet Israel's foreign minister this weekend.

The resignation of a Polish Cabinet minister could delay the passage of a restitution bill for Jewish property.

Israel closed the Gaza Strip's main commercial crossing.

A U.S.-born rabbi was forced to resign from an Israeli synagogue following allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Covenant Foundation gave its 2006 award to three Jewish educators.

Jewish contestant Elliott Yamin was voted off of "American Idol."

Condoleezza Rice will name a senior adviser on anti-Semitism.

Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank.

Israel is tightening security around its embassies after Al-Qaida loyalists called for three Israeli diplomats to be killed.

A commission of 11 nations agreed to open a major Holocaust-era archive.

U.S. officials have reportedly predicted that the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority could collapse by August.

China urged Hamas to recognize Israel.

Israel's defense minister ordered the opening of the main commercial crossing into the Gaza Strip.

Bob Casey won the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.

A South African broadcasting committee ruled that a Muslim radio station aired hate speech.

Noam Chomsky met with Hezbollah's leader, the Al-Manar TV network reported.

A Palestinian rocket killed dozens of chickens in an Israeli farming community.

A commission of 11 nations is expected to vote to open Holocaust-era archives.

The Bush administration opposes using foreign aid to pay Palestinian Authority salaries.

Israel was appointed to a spot on the United Nations committee on non-governmental organizations.

Anti-Semitic crimes in Germany rose by 25 percent in 2005 over the previous year, according to government statistics.

Jonathan Pollard's former handler, now an Israeli Cabinet minister, vowed to work for his release from prison.

Five Jordanians were charged with plotting to infiltrate Israel to carry out attacks.

A senior U.N. official called for the West to hold talks with "moderate" members of the new Palestinian Authority government under Hamas.

Israel's economy beat first-quarter forecasts.

A distant relative of Hermann Goering is on his way to becoming Jewish, according to reports in Germany's Spiegel Online magazine.

Vladimir Putin urged Israel to open talks with the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

The United States is restoring diplomatic relations with Libya and taking steps to remove it from a list of countries that support terrorism.

Mahmoud Abbas assailed Hamas for harming the Palestinians' image abroad.

Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians in West Bank clashes.

Norwegian officials met with a Hamas leader.

Israel thwarted the second attempt this month to smuggle arms to Palestinians by sea.

A dovish Jewish group is presenting a letter to President Bush's national security adviser urging Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.

Senior Israeli officials traveled to Washington to prepare for Ehud Olmert's visit.

El Al wants to do extra baggage screening at Newark's airport.

Racist and anti-Semitic behavior at this summer's World Cup in Germany could result in their country's expulsion from the tournament, a soccer official warned.

Israel bears responsibility for Palestinian welfare, the U.N. human rights chief said.

Yossi Banai, an Israeli cultural icon, died Thursday at age 74.

Israeli troops killed a terrorist from the Al Aksa Brigades.

An Israeli court charged four Palestinians in the assassination of Israeli Cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi.

Fatah and Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails negotiated an agreement for governance that implies recognition of Israel.

An anti-Zionist rabbi met with a Hamas minister and announced a "joint coalition" between their groups.

Vladimir Putin will host Mahmoud Abbas next week.

Sen. Arlen Specter called for dialogue with Iran.

An e-mail petition is being circulated calling on Jews to vote for "American Idol" finalist Elliott Yamin.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel comments in a letter to President Bush are a "liberal Jewish Hollywood talking point," Rush Limbaugh said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted Israel's eventual destruction.

Israel offered to release frozen Palestinian Authority taxes if they go toward humanitarian causes.

Israel's top court upheld a law exempting yeshiva students from military service.

The Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act cleared the U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee.

Two Hamas agents were caught en route from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.

Ariel Sharon received reasonable treatment, according to an article published in a medical journal.

Russia should do more to curtail a rising trend of xenophobic attacks, Amnesty International said.

Ehud Olmert's deputy called for the Israeli prime minister to meet the Palestinian Authority president after Olmert's upcoming U.S. visit.

A Catholic leader in Boston pressed Catholics to understand the Jewish roots of their religion.

A.M. Rosenthal, the longtime executive editor of the New York Times who became a staunch defender of Israel in later years, died Wednesday at 84.

The "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators will set up a mechanism to funnel money to the Palestinians.

Ehud Olmert hinted that Israel could begin a new West Bank withdrawal by the end of the year.

Iran's president told President Bush that the Iranian people do not understand "the phenomenon of Israel."

President Bush extended sanctions against Syria.

Ariel Sharon reportedly will be moved to a long-term care facility next week.

The Reform movement called for the deadline for the Medicare prescription drug plan to be extended.

A U.S. congressman criticized the Bush administration for keeping Israel on a trade watch list because of its manufacture of generic drugs.

Both houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed resolutions marking Israel's 58th anniversary.

Germany published a new list of its citizens that were killed in the Holocaust.

The Israeli-born wife of Iceland's president was involved in a diplomatic spat at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport.

An Israeli government official reportedly held talks with jailed Hamas lawmakers.

A senior Israeli official wrote off the rapprochement letter sent by Iran's leader to President Bush.

Israeli tourists were urged to leave Egypt's Sinai Peninsula for fear they could be kidnapped.

Britain's largest union for college teachers is reportedly set to vote later this month on an Israel boycott.

Israel foiled an attempted by Palestinians to smuggle half a ton of explosives to the Gaza Strip by sea.

Millions have visited Germany's national Holocaust memorial since its unveiling last year.

Almost two in three Israeli Jews want their Arab compatriots to leave the country, a poll found.

Iran is the major destabilizing factor in the Middle East, said Mark Warner, a likely candidate for U.S. president in 2008.

Three dovish Jewish groups came out against the Palestinian anti-terrorism act.

Luba Kadison Buloff, a leading Yiddish actress, died May 4 in New York at 99.

Iran's president sent a letter to President Bush asking him to seek solutions to the current stalemate over Iran's nuclear program.

Three Palestinians were killed in clashes between Hamas and Fatah militiamen.

The World Bank said Palestinian areas could soon become ungovernable because of a severe financial crisis.

Ehud Olmert will address both houses of the U.S. Congress.

Israel is easing a ban on Palestinians entering from the West Bank.

Jordan's king said time is running out for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

American tycoon Warren Buffett invested $4 billion in an Israeli manufacturing firm.

An Israeli soldier was punished for a politically motivated snub of the military chief of staff.

Sister Rose Thering, a nun who campaigned against anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church, died Saturday at 85.

Matisyahu began his European tour with a midnight show in Dublin.

President Bush told a Jewish audience that the international community must augment African Union forces in Darfur with U.N. and NATO troops.

Sweden broke with E.U. policy by granting a visa to a Palestinian Authority Cabinet minister from Hamas.

Washington nixed a European Commission proposal to transfer funds to the Palestinian Authority through President Mahmoud Abbas.

Ehud Olmert and his Cabinet were sworn in Thursday.

Ehud Olmert ruled out negotiations with the Palestinian Authority for now, but said he might meet with P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas.

Kofi Annan said he wants to see Israel's unqualified membership in the United Nations.

Republicans approved an amendment to a military bill that would allow chaplains to pray "according to their own conscience," but rejected a change calling for "sensitivity" to other faiths.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved an amendment that would protect educational trips from lobbying reform.

There is no evidence of systematic bias in the BBC's coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but the British station shouldn't shy away from using the word "terrorism," a panel found.

A member of the European Parliament resigned after sending an offensive email to a Jewish constituent.

Mahmoud Abbas said he would put any Israeli-Palestinian peace deal to a referendum, circumventing the Hamas government.

Congress will consider legislation to tie U.S. contributions to UNRWA to outside auditing of the agency.

Longtime Jewish community leader Jay Yoskowitz died suddenly Tuesday.

Dalia Itzik was sworn in as the first female Knesset speaker.

Brandeis University pulled a pro-Palestinian art exhibit from its campus.

Suspected satanists vandalized an Israeli synagogue.

A group of American baseball fans will visit Israel for an Israeli baseball festival.

The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College divested from companies doing business in Sudan.

A group of investors led by real-estate magnate Ted Lerner and his family purchased the Washington Nationals baseball team.

The Iranian army repudiated a statement from a top Revolutionary Guard officer who said Israel would be the first target in a U.S.-Iran conflict.

Israel celebrated its 58th birthday.

Gunmen from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' movement announced the formation of a militia to counter Hamas police, media reported.

The Palestinian Authority prime minister asked terrorist groups to refrain from attacking border crossings.

The United Jewish Communities nominated businessman and communal leader Joseph Kanfer as its next chairman of the board.

Top U.S. lawmakers are considering a plan to have Ehud Olmert address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

The chairman of the Republican Party was booed at an American Jewish Committee event over comments on Iraq.

The Swedish prime minister denied entry to a Hamas lawmaker.

Queens College named the founder of Americans for Peace Now as director of its Jewish studies program.

A new survey found American Jews are largely uninformed about Gaucher disease, even though they are the group most highly affected by it.

The American Jewish Committee announced the completion of a $105 million fund-raising campaign.

Israel remembered its 22,123 fallen soldiers and terrorism victims.

Iran is a threat to Israel but also fears its military might, the Israeli chief of staff said.

The "Quartet" guiding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will not replace its envoy for now because of Hamas intransigence.

A Florida professor who pleaded guilty to supporting Islamic Jihad will serve another 18 months in prison before being deported.

The first target in any Iran-U.S. conflict will be Israel, a senior Iranian military official said.

Palestinian counter-terrorism efforts last year fell "far short" of U.S. expectations, a State Department report said.

The senior envoy from the "Quartet" guiding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process came out against aid cuts to the Hamas government.

The Reform movement will lead a 30-day multifaith push to maintain the campaign for Darfur.

The American Jewish Committee launched its 100th anniversary celebrations.

The Federal Court of Canada dismissed an application to review a Passport Office policy that does not allow "Israel" to appear on the passports of people born in Jerusalem.

Israel's new coalition government under Ehud Olmert will be sworn in Thursday.

France denied entry to a Hamas official.

The leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, died Sunday.

Israel approved a key modification to the West Bank security barrier.

A Palestinian woman was killed during an Israeli army raid on the West Bank.

Jonathan Pollard filed a court challenge against the appointment of his former Israeli handler to the Olmert government.

An unmistakable Jewish presence ran through Sunday's rally in Washington.

Hamas may endorse an Arab League proposal for normalization with Israel.

Egypt grounded 10 Israeli yachtsmen taking part in an international regatta.

The Israeli and Palestinian Authority prime ministers were among Time magazine's 100 most influential people.

James Wolfensohn is quitting as the top international envoy to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Three Jewish leaders were arrested for protesting outside Sudan's embassy against the genocide in Darfur.

Israeli security officials believe Palestinians have smuggled dozens of Katyusha rockets into the Gaza Strip.

French President Jacques Chirac wants the World Bank to pay Palestinian Authority salaries.

Ehud Olmert and President Bush will meet in late May, a report said.

Anti-Semitic acts in the French-speaking part of Switzerland doubled in 2005, a new report found.

A student art exhibit critical of Palestinian terrorists will go on at Penn State University, after it initially was blocked.

The former director of the Mossad spy agency said Israel shouldn't rule out negotiations with Hamas.

Israeli criticism of Iranian participation in a U.N. disarmament commission is "absolutely ridiculous," an Iranian official said.

Hillel and MTV's college affiliate are sponsoring a contest for students to create video games simulating conditions in Darfur.

Israel's Labor Party agreed to join the new Kadima-led coalition government.

A Palestinian terrorist died in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip.

The Holocaust is proving more important than Israel in positively affecting Jewish identity among many young Jews, a new study found.

Iran has procured North Korean missiles capable of reaching Europe, Israel's military intelligence chief said.

A leading Russian Jewish group condemned an attack on a Russian synagogue.

The brother of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin got extra jail time for threatening Ariel Sharon's life.

A coalition of American Jewish leaders initiated a task force on Israeli-Arab issues.

Sweden withdrew from an international air force drill to protest Israel's participation.

The number of ex-Nazis convicted of war crimes more than tripled in the past year, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences admitted an Israeli musicologist.

The Palestinian Authority said it prevented a terrorist attack on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.

The president of the Reform movement brought a message of tolerance for gays to the university founded by televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Hundreds of Israeli tourists remain in the Sinai despite this week's terror attacks there.

In what is believed to be a first outside Israel, a siren was sounded for a minute from Cape Town's Jewish community center to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

Israel's ambassador to Italy condemned anti-Israel demonstrations that took place near a march marking Italy's liberation from fascism 61 years ago.

Israel will never allow Iran to acquire the power to wipe out the Jewish state, Ehud Olmert said.

A Holocaust memorial in Odessa was smeared with black paint, large swastikas and an anti-Semitic slogan.

A former member of Austria's Parliament pled not guilty to charges that he questioned the existence of Nazi gas chambers.

An Israeli Arab lawmaker met with the Palestinian Authority foreign minister, a top Hamas official.

A former lawmaker from Israel's Likud Party was convicted of impropriety.

Israel marked Holocaust Memorial Day.

Thousands of people marched from Auschwitz to Birkenau to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Norway stood by its decision to admit two Hamas lawmakers next month.

Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect, was buried Tuesday in Brooklyn.

Jordan accused Hamas of planning to carry out attacks on its soil.

Israeli rescue workers in Eilat were on highest alert following explosions at a Sinai beach resort area.

A former Israeli diplomat was indicted for sexual molestation, bribery and fraud.

Hezbollah vowed to secure the release of a terrorist imprisoned in Israel.

A session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee was postponed over the controversial participation of an Israeli Arab lawmaker.

Extremists increasingly are targeting Hispanic immigrants, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report.

Incidents of violent anti-Semitism diminished around the world in 2005, an Israeli study found.

Israel was advised to redesign its defenses to deal with non-conventional threats.

Mahmoud Abbas said he had the power to remove the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority if it doesn't begin to negotiate with Israel.

The leader of the Reform movement will deliver a commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked this year in Prague for the first time in an open public space.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman who fired on them from the Gaza Strip.

Iran's nuclear program is the worst threat Jews have faced since the Holocaust, Israel's defense minister said.

President Bush proclaimed May as Jewish heritage month.

The Palestinian Authority's Hamas prime minister has three sisters in Israel, a newspaper reported.

Malaysia said it would not establish relations with Israel until the Palestinians secure statehood.

Israel has a plan to reoccupy the Gaza Strip if the situation deteriorates, a top army commander said.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak invited Ehud Olmert to Egypt. Mubarak called the interim Israeli prime minister on Friday.

Israel deployed thousands of police to secure Jerusalem's Old City for the eastern Orthodox Easter.

President Bush named Joel Kaplan deputy chief of staff of the White House, taking over day-to-day policy planning from Karl Rove, another deputy chief of staff.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vetoed the appointment of a man on Israel's most wanted list to supervise the ministry that oversees the security services.

Germany agreed to drop its resistance to the opening of one of the world's largest Holocaust archives.

The U.S. Treasury extended its ban on dealings with Hamas to dealings with the Palestinian Authority.

The White House director of faith-based initiatives resigned.

An Iranian delegation met with top Europeans in an effort to end a deadlock on Iran's nuclear program.

The AIPAC classified information case is reportedly at the center of a rare FBI quest to retrieve documents from the archives of a dead journalist.

Israel blamed Hamas for the Tel Aviv suicide bombing but stopped short of ordering an offensive against the Palestinian Authority.

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a leading and provocative U.S. rabbi, died Monday at 84 in Englewood, N.J.

President Bush condemned Monday's suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv.

The "Quartet" of Israeli-Palestinian peace mediators will meet next month.

A group of Holocaust survivors petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to change the terms of the Swiss banks settlement.

The nine people killed in Monday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv were identified.

Japan announced it was suspending aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

The former editor of a U.S. newspaper sued her employer, alleging she was fired because she is a woman and Jewish.

Israel has foiled scores of Palestinian suicide bombings this year, the head of the Shin Bet security service said.

Several windows were shattered in a Ukrainian synagogue in what is believed to be an anti-Semitic attack.

A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least nine people in Tel Aviv.

Iran donated at least $50 million to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

The United States extended a waiver that allows the PLO office to operate in Washington for six months.

Zacarias Moussaoui said U.S. support for Israel is one of the main reasons he hates the United States.

A Florida professor acquitted of terrorism charges is expected to be deported.

Pope Benedict XVI endorsed Israel's right to exist as well as Palestinian statehood hopes.

Gail Hyman, the United Jewish Communities' senior vice president of communications, announced her departure.

American and Israeli officials denied reports that Israel plans to offer to free a jailed Palestinian militiaman if the United States grants clemency to Jonathan Pollard.

A Polish priest apologized for allowing anti-Semitic statements to be broadcast on a radio station he runs.

The Washington Nationals baseball team added days not on the Jewish Sabbath to a promotion aimed at religious groups.

Ehud Olmert said he intends to finalize plans for a further Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank by late 2007.

Iran could have nuclear weapons by 2010, Israel's military intelligence chief said.

Two senior Israeli diplomats visited Indonesia.

Two suspects surrendered in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a young French Jew.

President Bush sent Passover greetings to the Jewish community.

A U.S. Reform Jewish leader compared the plight of illegal immigrants to that of the ancient Israelites.

Fewer than one-fifth of non-Jews who marry Jews convert to Judaism, according to a new study.

Security forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas took control of a border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Russia's president sent Passover greetings to the country's Jewish community and promised that his government will fight anti-Semitism.

Polish groups are developing a tourism route tracing the country's Orthodox Jewish past.

Israel formally brought the comatose Ariel Sharon's political career to a close.

Iran has enriched uranium, its former president said.

The United States plans to more than double its emergency assistance this year to the U.N. body that cares for Palestinian refugees.

A London court censured the Israeli army over the killing of a British citizen in the Gaza Strip.

Iran must not gain the know-how to build an atomic bomb, President Bush said.

The Czech Jewish community is considering the creation of a Holocaust museum for Czech Jews and Roma, or gypsies.

The Likud Party said it would not join Israel's coalition government under Ehud Olmert.

France denied visas to two Hamas lawmakers.

A body marker from a Nazi concentration camp was removed from an auction in Los Angeles after complaints from a Jewish group.

A Boston-area Jewish sorority has lost members who say they didn't know about the organization's Jewish orientation.

European foreign ministers are meeting Monday to discuss sanctions options against Iran.

Israel is shunning any foreign dignitaries who hold contacts with the Palestinian Authority government under Hamas.

Israel's Ehud Olmert said he enjoys a "very strong emotional bond" with President Bush.

Ariel Sharon is expected to be declared permanently incapacitated later this week.

Pope Benedict XVI said he would he would visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp in May.

Israeli and Palestinian public figures will hold informal peace negotiations next month in Morocco.

Russian Jewish leaders criticized a lawmaker's motion to check how one of Russia's chief rabbis received Russian citizenship.

The editor in chief of a Kiev newspaper was severely beaten in what may have been retaliation for articles against anti-Semitism.

A JTA correspondent won a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the leading Israeli institution in terms of papers published by its faculty.

The European Union cut off direct aid to the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian Authority prime minister denied reports that Hamas was prepared for a Palestinian state next to Israel.

The Reform movement praised lawmakers for passing the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act.

The vote that brought Hamas to power was a vote against corruption, President Bush said.

A British inquest declared that a filmmaker killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip was murdered.

The Nazis had plans to exterminate Jews in British mandatory Palestine during World War II, according to a new report.

New York City police defended their conduct during the arrest of an elderly Orthodox Jewish man and a subsequent protest in the Chasidic community.

A new Gnostic gospel was revealed to the public, engendering debate about the role of Judas in Jesus' death.

An Israeli boxer recently won a heavyweight boxing title.

Jewish leaders joined other religious leaders in pledging to eradicate violence against women.

Ehud Olmert was asked to create Israel's next government.

Mahmoud Abbas sought to assert his control over Palestinian border crossings.

Israeli security forces arrested a Palestinian Authority Cabinet minister outside Jerusalem.

Iran tested its third missile in a week.

The chief suspect in the recent brutal murder of a French Jew denied to an investigative judge that he committed the crime.

Pope Benedict XVI may visit Israel early next year, Shimon Peres said.

The Israeli and Palestinian Authority governments maintained poor human rights records in 2005 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the U.S. State Department said.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the Bush administration to call on Saudi Arabia to end its boycott of Israel.

Ariel Sharon underwent surgery to his skull.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States decreased slightly in 2005, according to a new report.

Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians suspected of planning a double suicide bombing.

President Bush encouraged those observing a week of prayer and action aimed at stopping the violence in Darfur.

Jewish groups wrote members of the U.S. Congress to protest a budget bill likely to pass this week.

Nuclear inspectors will tour Iranian sites.

Israel's largest bank severed ties with Palestinian banks.

Police in Israel placed three Maryland teenagers under house arrest after seizing about 840 grams of marijuana from them, a police spokesman said.

U.S. Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) introduced a nonbinding resolution on the Senate floor calling on the United States not to participate in the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The United Jewish Communities allocated $8 million to help Hurricane Katrina victims.

The removal of Harvard University and Kennedy School logos from a paper alleging an all-powerful pro-Israel lobby did not signify disapproval, the Kennedy School said.

An Israeli player helped lead the University of Maryland women's basketball team to an NCAA championship.

An operation planned to repair surgical damage to Ariel Sharon's skill was postponed.

Labor Party leader Amir Peretz wants to be Israel's next defense minister.

Anti-Semitism on campuses is a "serious problem" that merits a campaign to inform Jewish students of their rights, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said.

The Palestinian Authority's foreign minister called for Israel's elimination and said Hamas would not disarm.

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in a refugee camp near Jerusalem.

Part of Pope John Paul II's childhood home is being turned into a Holocaust memorial.

Sweden cooperated with the Nazis more than previously thought, according to a Swedish investigation.

The Jewish Funders Network announced $12 million in grant initiatives.

A former Canadian aboriginal leader appealed a ruling that found him guilty of willfully promoting anti-Semitism.

A group of Jewish and Rwandan student leaders are touring Rwanda to learn about the 1994 genocide there.

Iranian missiles shown on Iranian state television are not capable of evading radar, an Israeli expert said.

U.S. officials are banned from contacting Palestinian Authority officials associated in any way with Hamas.

Hamas is unlikely to block the PLO from negotiating peace with Israel, Saeb Erekat said.

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian gunman in the West Bank.

U.S. Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on Hamas to renounce terrorism and acknowledge Israel's right to exist.

Israel's Labor Party lost a seat in the next Knesset to an Arab party.

The editor who published a controversial article on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States defended her decision to publish the piece.

French President Jacques Chirac invited the prime minister-elect of Israel, Ehud Olmert, to visit Paris.

Polish prosecutors may reopen a World War II-era case after an Israeli said he tracked down one of the men who allegedly murdered his family.

Israel's attorney general called on one of Israel's chief rabbis to resign.

A suicide bomber disguised as an Orthodox Jew killed four people in the West Bank.

A top Palestinian terrorist died in a car explosion in the Gaza Strip.

Final election results boosted Ehud Olmert's chances of forming an Israeli government that will support a West Bank withdrawal.

The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is launching a funding drive it hopes will raise $50 million for local Jewish day schools.

Agudath Israel of America welcomed a Massachusetts Supreme Court decision to deny marriage to same-sex couples from other states.

Palestinians must choose if they want a government that wants to destroy Israel, President Bush said.

South Africa "unconditionally" recognizes the legitimacy of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

The head of Israel's Pensioner Party has a document that could win Jonathan Pollard's release, according to the wife of the convicted spy.

Poland wants UNESCO to change the way it describes Auschwitz to emphasize that Nazis, not Poles, ran the death camp.

The Anti-Defamation League accused Syria's president of giving "aid and comfort" to Holocaust deniers.

The U.N. Security Council called on Iran to stop enriching uranium.

The "Quartet" working for Mideast peace warned the new Palestinian government to recognize Israel and renounce terrorism if it wants financial aid.

The United States could back a partial Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

Israel's pullout from Gaza did not harm the coastal strip's environment, a report found.

American consular officials in Jerusalem must review any request for a meeting between U.S. and Palestinian Authority officials.

Mahmoud Abbas called Ehud Olmert to offer congratulations on his election victory.

President Bush invited Ehud Olmert to Washington.

The FBI broke up a ring that tried to smuggle Hezbollah operatives into the United States.

A bill in Congress would establish a board to advise the government on whether federally funded international relations programs benefit U.S. interests.

John Kerry urged the U.S. Coast Guard to allow a Chasidic Jew to wear a yarmulke while on duty.

Israel's Ehud Olmert said only parties that support withdrawal from parts of the West Bank would be asked to join a governing coalition.

Ehud Olmert asked Mahmoud Abbas to start negotiations toward Palestinian statehood.

The judge in the classified-information case against two former AIPAC staffers delayed the trial for a month.

Israeli soldiers intercepted a would-be suicide bomber en route to an attack.

For the first time, Palestinian terrorists fired a katyusha rocket at Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Israel tackled a new suspected outbreak of bird flu.

A group of Iranian Jewish women is spending a week in Moscow.

A Jordanian prince was welcomed at Latin America's largest synagogue.

A Jewish camp in California is looking for alumni as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.

One of the Orthodox Jewish contestants on "The Apprentice" was fired.

President Bush appointed Joshua Bolten as his chief of staff.

The Palestinian Legislative Council overwhelmingly voted Hamas into government.

Voting began in Israel's general election.

Two Israelis died after accidentally detonating a dud Palestinian rocket.

Military strikes will not stop Iran from enriching uranium, a senior Iranian official said.

The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society wants the Senate to include provisions in border protection policies that are "consistent with American humanitarian policies and effective against illegal migration."

Israel's ambassador to the United States advocated a U.S.-style presidential system.

The U.S. State Department blocked a Palestinian human-rights advocate from entering the United States.

Caspar Weinberger, the Reagan-era defense secretary whose intervention in Jonathan Pollard's case led to a life sentence for Pollard, died at 88.

The United Jewish Communities is sending prom clothes to children in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Final opinion polls predicted the Kadima Party would sweep the Israeli elections.

A Russian convicted of a stabbing spree at a Moscow synagogue received a 13-year prison sentence.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian terrorist in the Gaza Strip.

Israel contained its first bird-flu outbreak.

Hamas' top politician called for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

California's state controller called on the state's two largest pensions to check whether they have holdings in companies that would be subject to Iran-related sanctions.

A Lithuanian found guilty of Nazi-era war crimes was spared prison time.

Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor was "probably" fortunate, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington said.

Two synagogues in Montreal were defaced.

Israeli police temporarily sealed off Jerusalem's Temple Mount, citing security concerns.

The U.S. government opposes allowing testimony from Israeli officials at the classified information trial of two former AIPAC staffers.

The United Nations agreed to help the Palestinian Authority fight an outbreak of deadly bird flu.

Mahmoud Abbas suggested he would bypass Hamas in negotiations with Israel.

Ehud Olmert said Mahmoud Abbas had failed in the war on terrorism.

The Bush administration announced it would stop funding Palestinian infrastructure projects.

The U.S. Treasury placed Hezbollah's television affiliate on a terrorist watch list.

President Bush signed legislation graduating Ukraine from Soviet-era trade restrictions

The number of anti-Semitic incidents remained high in Canada in 2005, according to a  B'nai Brith Canada study.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged his support for Hamas.

Hamas' designated chief of the Palestinian Authority security forces said he would not arrest wanted terrorists.

Twelve Americans on a B'nai B'rith trip were killed in a bus accident in northern Chile.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinian terrorists along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.

Condoleezza Rice said she is confident that an international accord can be reached to prevent Iran from enriching uranium.

The PLO rejected Hamas' governing agenda.

Ehud Olmert said only parties favoring further West Bank withdrawals would be able to join the Israeli government if he wins next week's election.

Israel pitched in to help Palestinians contain a suspected outbreak of bird flu in the Gaza Strip.

Israel is the largest Middle Eastern investor in the United States.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents remained high in Canada in 2005, according to a  B'nai Brith Canada study.

Conservative rabbis passed a motion that could make it easier to push through a change in the movement's approach to homosexuality.

An interfaith peace trek across the Sahara ground to a halt when Libya refused to let in the Israeli participants.

Israeli soldiers killed a wanted Palestinian in the West Bank.

Iran gave $1.8 million to Islamic Jihad last month, Israel's defense minister said.

A genetic test for breast cancer mutations linked to Ashkenazi Jews misses the mutations about 12 percent of the time, according to a new study.

Two West Bank Palestinians were charged in an Israeli court with membership in Al-Qaida.

Lawyers representing an indicted former employee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee established a legal defense fund.

U.S. Jewish groups announced a "Week of Prayer and Action for Darfur."

Racism in France is rising, according to a new poll.

Jordan's king denied his country and Israel were at odds.

The National Council of Jewish Women said it is "deeply troubled" with President Bush's choice for Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

The city of Jerusalem may make the Western Wall accessible by cable car.

Israeli security forces foiled a Palestinian suicide bombing planned for Tel Aviv.

President Bush said the United States would use "military might" to protect Israel.

Jordan's King Abdullah said time is running out for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

The European Union donated $78 million for Palestinian relief.

Hezbollah pledged to secure the release of Lebanese jailed in Israel.

Approximately two dozen people gathered at the Reform movement's rabbinical seminary in New York to honor those killed in the Iraq war.

Russian prosecutors urged a 16-year sentence for the man accused of stabbing several worshipers at a synagogue in Moscow.

El Al is offering reduced airfare to Israel for the upcoming election.

A leading U.S. Catholic bishop said Israel's occupation is a factor in the persecution of Christians in Muslim lands.

A leading Israeli rabbi blamed local outbreaks of avian flu on sexual permissiveness.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jonathan Pollard's petition for access to classified information used to convict him.

Hamas presented its candidates for the new Palestinian Cabinet to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel confirmed its first contagion by a deadly strain of avian flu.

Wayne Firestone was named the next president of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.

The United Arab Emirates has given money to families of Palestinian "martyrs" killed or injured in the intifada.

Hamas accused the United States of trying to isolate it among Palestinians.

Israel reopened the main commercial crossing into the Gaza Strip following warnings of a Palestinian food shortage.

One of Israel's chief rabbis called for an international organization of religions.

More than 40 professors and staff members at the University of Michigan presented a letter supporting divestment from Israel.

Seven Torahs destroyed in Hurricane Katrina were buried in Louisiana.

Bird flu was confirmed Friday at three kibbutzim and a moshav in Israel after some 11,000 turkeys died in recent days.

The North American federation system has implemented a new system to determine overseas funding.

U.S. demands that Hamas abandon terrorism and recognize Israel are part of a new U.S. national security strategy.

The pro-Israel lobby has turned America's Mideast policy against U.S. interests, according to a paper by researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago.

The Palestinian Authority's incoming prime minister said he could envision peace with Israel, provided Israel ceded eastern Jerusalem.

The Fatah Party chose not to enter a Hamas-led Palestinian government.

U.S. military interrogators wrapped prisoners at Guantanamo in Israeli flags, according to the FBI.

Ariel Sharon's personal documents were removed from his Jerusalem office.

The leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch won its court case against Messianist opponents within its movement.

The United States does not object to Israel's resumption of arms sales to China.

Palestinian areas will be thrown into an economic depression if Israel withholds tax revenues and other countries withhold aid, a new World Bank study says.

The U.N. General Assembly voted to create a new human rights organization, despite opposition from the United States and Israel.

An Israeli soldier died in a clash with Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee passed legislation expanding sanctions against Iran.

Saddam Hussein feared Israel would attack if it knew Iraq did not have chemical weapons, a new report said.

A member of the Black Hebrew community will represent Israel at this year's Eurovision song contest.

The first issue of Hamas' online magazine for kids to be published since the group won Palestinian legislative elections advocates suicide bombing and hatred of Jews, the Anti-Defamation League says.

Five returned Nazi-looted paintings will go on display in Los Angeles.

Jordan's king says he will continue to look out for Israel's Arabs.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews in the Denver area feel alienated from the larger Jewish community, according to a new study.

Israel plans to prosecute six Palestinian terrorists it seized from a West Bank prison.

Mahmoud Abbas called Israel's raid of a West Bank prison an "unforgivable crime."

A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators led by Jews from each party asked President Bush to urge Saudi Arabia to cancel a meeting on an Israel boycott.

Israel halted the expansion of a West Bank settlement.

Ehud Olmert's prospects in upcoming Israeli elections improved following the Jericho jail raid.

As many as 800 Israeli diplomats and state employees will vote Thursday at the Israeli Consulate in New York City.

An Air Force Academy graduate launched an organization to promote religious freedom in the military.

Hebrew University led three Israeli universities on a list of the 200 best universities in the world.

A U.S. court ruling is expected soon in the case of a Holocaust survivor's estate that has led to a battle between two Israeli hospitals.

A  Jewish singer from Kiev will represent Ukraine at this year's Eurovision song contest.

Israeli commandos stormed a West Bank prison, seeking to detain a terrorist whom Palestinian officials had pledged to release.

Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee staffers subpoenaed top Bush administration officials to testify at their trial.

Ehud Olmert vowed that a major West Bank settlement bloc would remain part of Israel.

More than 150 rabbis gathered outside United Nations headquarters in New York to urge international action in the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

Six Americans reportedly have entered an Iranian newspaper's Holocaust cartoon contest.

Britain's foreign minister said the international community should turn its attention to Israel's presumed nuclear program once it finishes dealing with Iran.

Shimon Peres held secret talks with Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan.

A Mexican artist will pull his installation that involves pumping auto exhaust into a former synagogue in Germany.

Football star Tom Brady completed a visit to Israel.

More than a quarter of Swedes harbor anti-Semitic views, a survey found.

The United States may increase humanitarian aid to the Palestinians at the expense of aid earmarked for the Palestinian Authority, Condoleezza Rice said.

In its proposed platform for the next Palestinian Authority government, Hamas reiterated its right to "armed resistance" against Israel.

Rome's chief rabbi visited the main mosque in his city.

Israeli security forces thwarted a Palestinian bombing attempt.

Egypt's president urged Israel to hold talks with the Palestinian Authority under Hamas.

Rabbis joined their Christian and Muslim counterparts in marking the second anniversary of the Madrid train bombings.

Leaders of European socialist parties said Europe should be open to talks with a Palestinian government led by Hamas.

Several anti-Semitic incidents occurred in the Paris suburbs.

New York City's mayor suspended the head imam of the city's jail system.

An Israeli bakery unveiled a half-ton hamantash.

The European Union ruled out aid for a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority unless the terrorist group seeks peace.

A Jewish leader urged Congress not to ban or limit privately funded congressional travel.

President Bush met with philanthropic leaders and social service providers to encourage corporations and private foundations to broaden their support for faith-based groups.

The Chicago Board of Rabbis asked its members not to serve on the Illinois governor's commission on discrimination and hate crimes.

Israeli plans for further unilateral separation from the Palestinians are a "declaration of war," a Hamas leader said.

A Hamas prime minister could be a target for assassination if he is involved in approving terrorist attacks, Ehud Olmert said.

The five veto-holders on the U.N. Security Council began discussing Iran and its nuclear program.

Mahmoud Abbas gave Hamas an extra two weeks to form a government.

A 70-year-old Parisian Jew was struck in the head by a man who called her a "dirty Jew."

Jewish groups are backing the participation in a large-scale Manhattan building project of a British architect who had come under fire for his views on Israel.

Ehud Olmert said he plans to set Israel's permanent borders by 2010.

The Conservative movement's policy on homosexuality will remain unchanged until at least December.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority are both cited for "problems" in the U.S. State Department's 2005 report on human rights.

American Jewish Committee officials raised concerns with Russia's foreign minister about the country's relationship with Iran and Hamas.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure that would graduate Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik trade restrictions.

Israel lifted a security closure on the main commercial crossing into the Gaza Strip.

BBC officials censured the corporation's online news service for a biased report about the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Jewish students at Columbia University protested a speech by a scholar critical of Holocaust restitution groups and Israel.

Hungary reopened a Holocaust compensation program.

Palestinian artists urged a British musician to cancel an upcoming concert in Israel to protest the West Bank security fence.

Mahmoud Abbas backed Ehud Olmert's bid for the Israeli premiership.

Israel's state comptroller censured the government for its handling of settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip.

The U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan is "hopelessly out of date," a United Nations official said.

Hamas is ready to consider a Saudi diplomatic initiative that recognizes Israel's existence, Russia's foreign minister said.

Egypt's president reportedly called on Israeli tourists avoiding his country to reconsider their plans.

NATO spy planes conducted an exercise in Israel, apparently as a signal to Iran.

Israel resumed arms sales to China after resolving a dispute on the matter with the United States.

The World Jewish Congress will not drop a lawsuit against one of its former executives, despite demands from its affiliate in Australia.

The Anglican Church's financial advisers recommended against divesting from Caterpillar because it does business with Israel.

A delegation from a Jewish anti-Zionist group is visiting Iran.

Israel's defense minister said even Hamas members in Palestinian Authority government aren't protected from counter-terrorist operations.

More than half the U.S. Senate attended a gala dinner for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The new Republican majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives said he would never allow anti-Israel legislation come to the floor.

Nearly 400 rabbis have signed a letter to President Bush urging him to maintain indirect assistance to the Palestinians and "constructive engagement" with the Palestinian government.

Natan Sharansky said President Bush's policy of democratization has failed because Bush rushes tyrannies to elections.

The Association of Reform Zionists of America easily won elections for the American slate to the World Zionist Organization's 35th Congress of the Jewish People.

A British architect involved in a large-scale New York project is under fire for ties to a group that has called for a boycott of Israel.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee named Howard Friedman as its new president.

Three anti-Semitic attacks in a Parisian suburb over the weekend led the country's interior minister to increase security measures in the community.

"Munich" and "Paradise Now," two films that caused considerable controversy in the Jewish community, came up empty-handed at Sunday evening's Academy Awards.

Three anti-Semitic attacks in a Parisian suburb over the weekend led the country's interior minister to increase security measures in the community.

"Munich" and "Paradise Now," two films that caused considerable controversy in the Jewish community, came up empty-handed at Sunday evening's Academy Awards.

The chief suspect in the grisly murder of a young Parisian Jew was extradited to France late Saturday night.

Two Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike in the Gaza Strip on Monday.

The director of the hospital treating Ariel Sharon said the Israeli prime minister is unlikely to recover.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an amendment that would cut federal higher education funds to colleges and universities that refuse to allow military recruiters on campus.

Ehud Olmert said Israel still hopes to see a Palestinian state formed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Vatican publicly forgave an Israeli family arrested for detonating fireworks in a Nazareth church.

The European Union urged Israel to release withheld tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority.

The Jewish Family & Life organization took over management of a prestigious Jewish book award.

Russia's foreign minister told Hamas on Friday that it wouldn't have a future if it doesn't become a political party and recognize Israel.

A Palestinian rocket hit a strategic facility in Ashkelon on Friday.

The man accused of killing a young Jew in Paris will be brought back from the Ivory Coast to France as early as Saturday.

Israel's foreign minister asked Britain's prime minister to deny Hamas international recognition.

An Israeli military official said the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system can intercept and destroy an incoming missile from Iran.

Demolition of Tajikistan's only synagogue began last month, sources in Dushanbe said.

Israel's defense minister said a Middle Eastern "Axis of Evil" is trying to destroy the Jewish state.

Australia's delegation has threatened to leave the World Jewish Congress because of a pending lawsuit against a former community leader.

The Anti-Defamation League resigned from a hate-crimes panel to protest the inclusion of a Nation of Islam representative.

The Jewish Family & Life organization took over management of a prestigious Jewish book award.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said there is an Al-Qaida presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Iran's former president said the Holocaust was a historical reality.

The Dubai company seeking to operate American ports is defending its ownership by a country that participates in the Arab boycott of Israel.

Ehud Olmert ruled out talks with the Palestinian Authority's prime minister-designate.

Mahmoud Abbas played down Iran's offer to fund the Palestinian Authority.

The judge in the classified information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists denied a motion from a journalism organization to weigh in.

Israel upgraded a warning against its citizens traveling to Jordan or Egypt's Sinai Desert.

Israel's Finance Ministry increased funding for a foundation assisting needy Holocaust survivors.

The Ontario Library Association refused to drop from its recommended list a book that includes Palestinian children endorsing suicide bombing.

Voting concluded in the World Zionist Organization elections.

The son of the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been chosen as the new White House liaison to the Jewish community.

The alleged leader of a gang suspected of murdering a French Jew denied he carried out the murder.

Palestinians killed an Israeli in the West Bank.

Top donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee will have an opportunity to quiz its leadership and lawyers about the classified-information case against two former staffers.

Jewish and African American officials in New York came together in a show of solidarity after the shooting death of a Jewish man in Brooklyn.

The Reform and Reconstructionist movements joined Christian and Muslim leaders in calling on President Bush to make Middle East peace a larger priority.

The representative body of Australian Jewry is considering pulling out of the World Jewish Congress if the WJC doesn't drop a lawsuit against a former WJC official.

Jewish groups protested the Illinois governor's appointment of the Nation of Islam's minister of protocol to a commission on discrimination and hate crimes.

A gathering of Jewish leaders, academics and Israeli Knesset members discussed the possibility of pushing for U.S. government vouchers for private Jewish schools.

Jewish leaders are calling on U.S. lawmakers to condemn the murder of a French Jew.

Hamas does not threaten Israel's existence, Ehud Olmert said.

Iran reportedly pledged to donate $250 million to the Palestinian Authority.

The Dubai firm seeking to take over some operations at U.S. ports reportedly enforces a boycott against Israel.

Iran is preventing international monitors from determining whether its nuclear program is peaceful, according to a new report.

Convicted Holocaust denier David Irving reiterated that Hitler did not have a systematic plan to exterminate Europe's Jews.

Jewish officials in the former Soviet Union appealed to Uzbek authorities to investigate the death of the Central Asian country's Jewish leader.

A Russian man suspected of attacking worshippers in a Moscow synagogue pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder.

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs voted to monitor guidelines for religious tolerance at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

A play in New York about the death of a pro-Palestinian demonstrator at the hands of an Israeli bulldozer was delayed.

An Israeli army general canceled a sabbatical in Britain out of concern he could be prosecuted by pro-Palestinian groups.

Russian officials confirmed that Hamas leaders will visit Moscow on Friday.

The European Union announced it would release $142 million in emergency funding for the Palestinian Authority.

Tens of thousands of people in Paris demonstrated against racism and anti-Semitism.

The leading Hamas politician gave conflicting comments regarding relations with Israel.

Sen. Hillary Clinton called on the international community to shun Hamas.

London's mayor said he would appeal a suspension he received for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi.

A U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling revoking the citizenship of a man for his World War II-era activities.

A Danish sponsor of the country's national soccer team reversed its decision to pull its logos from the team's T-shirts for a match with Israel.

Members of Montreal's Jewish community held a vigil to express solidarity with French Jews after the murder of a French Jew.

Two branches of McDonald's in Israel are getting new signs so prospective customers know the outlets are kosher.

President Bush called on the international community to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel.

A senior member of Israel's Kadima Party hinted that the future Palestinian Authority prime minister could be assassinated.

Israeli troops killed five Palestinians during a major West Bank raid.

A Hamas delegation will arrive in Moscow next week.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone was rapped for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi.

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians the army said were trying to plant bombs along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.

A top Hamas leader said that the Palestinian parliament would release the killers of former Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.

Twenty-nine Ohio farmers will travel to Israel next week to learn about Israeli farming techniques.

A new evangelical group is planning a pro-Israel lobbying bid in Washington on July 18-19.

An Israeli general was reprimanded for comments that caused a diplomatic squabble with Jordan.

Police in the Ivory Coast arrested a suspect in the case of a French Jew who was tortured and murdered.

Saudi Arabia joined Egypt in rejecting a U.S. call to cut aid to a Hamas-led Palestinian government.

Iran offered to fund the Palestinian Authority.

Ariel Sharon had fluid removed from his stomach.

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian during a West Bank clash.

Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to headline this year's American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference.

U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) called on Lithuania to halt the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius.

Israel plans to pave a network of West Bank roads that would be used exclusively by Palestinians.

Immigration to Israel from France rose in 2005.

A father and his daughter are among the 19 winners of the 2005 National Jewish Book Awards.

Egypt's foreign minister told Condoleezza Rice that his country is not ready to cut off a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

The Austrian prosecutors in the case of Holocaust denier David Irving want him to spend more time in jail.

The Israeli state comptroller is investigating the sale of interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's home.

Israel's Ehud Olmert called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an anti-Semite.

The United States sent experts to Saudi Arabia to review its boycott of Israel.

Jewish organizations welcomed a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of a small sect to use an illegal hallucinogenic.

Lawrence Summers, the Jewish president of Harvard University, resigned on Tuesday.

An Israeli lawyer sued Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Germany for Holocaust denial.

A prominent Jewish Republican is leading a fund-raising drive for Lewis "Scooter" Libby's legal defense.

The United Nations rebuked a security guard who drew swastikas on a sign-in sheet.

An Austrian court sentenced David Irving to three years in prison for denying the Holocaust.

The French government is considering the recent murder of a Jewish man to be an anti-Semitic act.

Israel's Ehud Olmert said there is still hope for peace with the Palestinians despite Hamas' political rise to power.

A European Jewish group is planning to file an international criminal complaint against the Iranian president for inciting genocide.

Russian human rights activists criticized the decision of provincial authorities to close a newspaper that published a controversial cartoon of religious leaders.

Twelve Russian political parties signed a pact aimed at combating extremism.

Israeli security forces foiled a Palestinian mortar barrage on southern Jerusalem.

U.S. Jewish ice skater Ben Agosto and his partner earned a silver medal in ice dancing at the 2006 Olympics.

Some Jewish women's activists sent vibrators to Jewish leaders to create a "buzz" about what they see as organized Jewish community's silence on reproductive rights.

Denmark cracked down on a clothing company that sold T-shirts with the logo of a Palestinian terrorist group.

Russia said it may sell arms to the Palestinian Authority.

Britain's chief rabbi criticized the Church of England for voting to review its financial holdings in companies that do business with Israel.

Hamas officials reportedly are working on a new charter that would give the organization a more moderate tone, while still calling for Israel's destruction.

New York University has the most Jewish college students of any U.S. school, according to Hillel.

Israel is reviewing a number of sanctions to be set once a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority parliament is inaugurated this weekend.

Hamas chose Ismail Haniyeh to be the next Palestinian Authority prime minister.

Israel will not allow Palestinian legislators from Hamas to travel from the Gaza Strip to a West Bank swearing-in.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said his liaison to the Jewish community did not lobby him to direct money to her husband's clients.

Thousands turned out to pay respects to the late Israeli folk singer Shoshana Damari.

El Al has installed missile defense systems on all its aircraft, Israeli security sources said.

Iran must understand that force is an option in dealing with its nuclear threat, Condoleezza Rice said.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan urged Hamas to meet international requirements, including recognizing Israel's right to exist.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution recommending no dealing with a Hamas-led government.

The United States is keeping money it already granted the Palestinian Authority from reaching a Hamas-led government.

The Iranian ambassador to Portugal was criticized after he voiced doubt about the Holocaust.

Germany's foreign minister said his country would stand with Israel in dealing with Iran and would not rule out military cooperation.

The Jewish community of Kaliningrad, Russia, was told to pay for the investigation of alleged unlawful dissemination of anti-Semitic literature.

Israel released a senior Hamas politician from prison.

An Israeli artist launched an international anti-Semitic cartoon contest.

Chabad opened a Jewish student center at Oxford.

Ehud Olmert told U.S. Jewish leaders that Israel is prepared to cut off ties with the Palestinian Authority as soon as a Hamas-led government is sworn in.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with representatives of the American Jewish community.

Iran seeks to destroy Israel, the new chief of Israeli military intelligence said.

There is no U.S.-Israeli plan to oust Hamas from power, the White House said.

The Bush administration used the anniversary of the assassination of a Lebanese leader to call on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.

Hamas admitted receiving help from Hezbollah.

The president of Azerbaijan told a group of American Jewish leaders that his country may upgrade its relations with Israel and open a trade mission there.

Americans for Peace Now endorsed a congressional resolution recommending a ban on funding for a Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority.

The United Nations asked Lebanon about reported arms shipments crossing the country's border with Syria to go to Hezbollah.

A painting looted during the Nazi era will be returned to the heirs of its original owner.

Israel and the United States reportedly are considering how to destabilize a Hamas-led Palestinian government.

The son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was sentenced to nine months in prison for campaign-funding violations in his father's 1999 race for Likud Party leadership.

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Germany's foreign minister, on a visit to Israel, pledged to keep up pressure on Hamas to reform.

An Australian cartoonist said two of his old works dealing with the Holocaust were entered into an Iranian newspaper contest without his permission.

The Order of the British Empire was bestowed posthumously on a former South African chief rabbi.

Two Israeli Arab lawmakers were questioned over visits to Syria and Lebanon.

Israel reportedly has launched a campaign against Web sites used by Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups.

Israeli folk singer Shoshana Damari died at age 83.

The outgoing Palestinian Authority Parliament gave Mahmoud Abbas new powers.

The leader of Iranian Jewry criticized the country's president for denying the Holocaust.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to demand that Hamas recognize Israel, Condoleezza Rice said.

Ariel Sharon underwent emergency surgery.

Hamas announced that it would head the next Palestinian Authority government.

Gaza Strip-related violence against Israelis has come down significantly since Israel quit the territory last year, according to new findings.

Pro-Israel groups are reportedly lobbying for an Oscar-nominated film about Palestinian suicide bombers not to be presented as coming from "Palestine."

Israel launched an international campaign linking Hamas to Chechen terrorists.

Iran's biggest newspaper launched a competition for cartoons satirizing the Holocaust.

Thirty-seven percent of British Muslims see British Jewry as a "legitimate target as part of the struggle for justice in the Middle East," according to a new poll.

An Israeli lesbian couple won state recognition as joint parents of their children.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said international recognition and comprises with Hamas could cause a "slippery slope."

Israel's ambassador to the United States said the country could "do business" with a Hamas-led Palestinian government if it meets international criteria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he intends to invite Hamas officials to Moscow.

President Bush held an unscheduled meeting with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

The U.S. Air Force softened its rules on religious practices.

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz was invited to speak to NATO defense ministers.

A new organization united Christians in support of Israel.

A German gun possibly used by Adolph Hitler sold for $140,025 in an online auction.

A federal appeals court upheld New York City's policy of allowing symbols of Jewish and Muslim holiday scenes in school displays, but not Christian nativity scenes.

Islamic Jihad threatened to use violence in response to cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.

Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian terrorists on Israel's boundary with the Gaza Strip.

A conference on academic boycotts whose validity had been questioned was postponed after pressure from its funders.

Jonathan Pollard asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case.

The Palestinian Authority will become a "terror state" if Hamas controls the Palestinian Parliament without renouncing violence or recognizing Israel, Israel's foreign minister said.

The Danish newspaper at the heart of the Muslim cartoon furor backed off a plan to publish images lampooning the Holocaust.

A soccer game between Israel and Denmark will go on as scheduled despite fears it would be canceled.

An evangelical Christian group wants to join a U.S. court case challenging the Air Force Academy's alleged Christian climate.

An anti-Semitic incident took place in a Catholic high school in Paris, according to a watchdog group.

A top Palestinian cleric asked Israel's High Court of Justice to halt the construction of a Simon Wiesenthal Center museum in Jerusalem.

Germany's foreign minister is to visit Israel next week.

Ehud Olmert said Israel would have to unilaterally withdraw from much of the West Bank.

A Muslim cleric in Britain who fomented hate and incited murder was sentenced to seven years in jail.

Israel killed a member of a Palestinian terrorist group in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas activists in Jerusalem reportedly enjoy Israeli state benefits.

The Anglican Church decided to divest from companies whose products Israel uses in the West Bank.

An Israeli man was jailed for stabbing three people at last year's Jerusalem gay pride parade.

A Presbyterian committee investigating the church's possible divestment from Israel said it would not recommend divestment to the church's General Assembly in June.

A Jewish student group is sponsoring a cartoon contest to counter an anti-Semitic comics competition in Iran.

A Jewish official was among those who paid tribute to Coretta Scott King at her funeral.

A staffer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was named to head the memorial museum planned for the site of the World Trade Center.

Hamas' top politician said the radical Islamic group will likely form the next Palestinian Authority government.

Israel killed a senior Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank and two others in the Gaza Strip.

The president of Northwestern University blasted one of his professors for denying the Holocaust.

Iran's biggest newspaper requested cartoon submissions that question the Holocaust.

Heirs of a Dutch Jewish art dealer whose paintings were looted by the Nazis will get most of them back.

Racist skinhead activity in the United States is on the rise, according to a new report.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is maintaining global pressure on Hamas to reform.

A Jewish school in Montreal received its second bomb threat in less than a week.

A weeklong lecture series on radical Islam sponsored by Jewish groups and others got under way at the University of Toronto.

Jewish terrorism is a "cancer" that Israel is lenient in tackling, Israel's Shin Bet chief said.

Israel's acting prime minister said ties to the Palestinian Authority would continue as long as it is not led by Hamas.

An Islamic Web site in Europe posted anti-Semitic political cartoons in response to the Mohammed cartoon controversy raging in Europe.

Jewish leaders in Ukraine blamed Ukrainian authorities, law enforcement and societal attitudes for an attempted attack on Kiev's central synagogue.

Israel will release tax revenues to the Palestinians that were frozen after Hamas recently won Palestinian elections.

Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied against acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Polish Jews held a service to mark a roof collapse that killed nearly 70 Poles.

An economics magazine will be shut down after running an anti-Semitic article.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem plans to retrain evacuated Gaza Strip settlement farmers.

A Chilean teenager died after being brutally beaten by a neo-Nazi group.

Actress Emma Thompson helped launch a new Web site connected to the Anne Frank museum.

Hezbollah attacked an Israeli outpost, the terrorist group's TV station said.

Iran threatened to cut off inspections of its nuclear facilities if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council.

An Ohio congressman close to that state's Jewish community was elected Republican majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Kassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in southern Israel, wounding three Israelis.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians protested the publication in Europe of cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed.

The Palestinian Authority delayed payment to its 137,000 employees by at least two weeks.

Israel arrested two Palestinians smuggling belt bombs out of the West Bank city of Nablus.

The European Jewish Congress offered its "full support" to leaders of the World Jewish Congress after New York State's attorney general concluded an investigation into financial impropriety at the WJC.

Settlements have cost Israelis more than $14 billion dollars, not counting military expenditures, an independent Israeli study said.

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution that urged an end to assistance to the Palestinian Authority if its leaders reject Israel's existence.

Egypt called on Hamas to renounce violence and recognize Israel.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog is meeting to decide whether to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council.

U.S. agents questioned two New York Times reporters regarding the American Israel Public Affairs Committee classified-information case.

Ariel Sharon had a feeding tube inserted.

A National Prayer Breakfast in Washington concluded with an interfaith prayer for peace in the Middle East.

President Bush reiterated his pledge to defend Israel if Iran attacks it.

A Hamas leader rejected President Bush's conditions for a relationship.

Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank president counseled continued aid for the Palestinians.

Anti-Semitic incidents decreased by 14 percent in Britain in 2005, according to a new report.

Medical experts in Russia concluded that a man who attacked worshippers in a Moscow synagogue is fit to stand trial.

Scores of Israelis were injured as settlers scuffled with police trying to dismantle a West Bank outpost.

President Bush used his State of the Union address to call on Hamas to recognize Israel and reject terrorism.

New York state's attorney general turned up no criminal wrongdoing in his investigation into allegations of financial improprieties at the World Jewish Congress.

A document in Iran's possession is aimed at manufacturing a bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.

Four U.S. congressional initiatives would ban assistance to a Palestinian Authority governed by Hamas.

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) will lead the annual national prayer breakfast, the first time a Jew has done so.

The University of Vienna will build a Holocaust center in honor of Simon Wiesenthal.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asked Egypt to help press Hamas to moderate its views.

Venezuela's president met with local Jewish officials after being accused of making remarks some consider anti-Semitic.

Fervently Orthodox Jews rioted in Israel over an unauthorized autopsy conducted on the body of one of their community members.

The five nations with veto power on the U.N. Security Council agreed to report Iran to the council.

Samuel Alito was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Steven Spielberg's "Munich" was nominated for five Oscars, including best picture.

Ariel Sharon is absent from the Kadima Party's candidate list for the March 28 general elections in Israel.

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank.

Russia's president said aid to a Hamas-led Palestinian government should not be cut.

Jewish leaders mourned the death of Coretta Scott King, who died Tuesday at age 78.

Money from the "Hungarian Gold Train" settlement was distributed to social service agencies to benefit Holocaust survivors.

Merrill Lynch withdrew its sponsorship from a London discussion of the Palestinian elections because a Hamas supporter is participating.

Scores of settlers stormed an Israeli army base in the West Bank.

Hamas asked international donors not to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority.

A Jewish community day school in Maryland received a $15 million gift.

Settlers squatting in Palestinian-owned market stalls in the West Bank city of Hebron agreed to leave under a compromise deal with Israeli police.

Hamas said it could suspend attacks if Israel withdraws from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem.

Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri, a leading Israeli mystic, died at the age of 106.

Steven Spielberg lambasted members of the Jewish community who came out against his film "Munich."

Wendy Wasserstein, an award-winning playwright who wrote about women's challenges in contemporary life, died Monday at age 55

El Al petitioned Israel's High Court to block flights by a rival Israeli airline on the Tel Aviv-New York route.

Oprah Winfrey's seal of approval catapulted Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir to the top of the book lists.

Google is planning to start a resource and development center in Israel.

Mahmoud Abbas said he would ask Hamas to form a new Palestinian Authority government.

The United Nations marked its first-ever Holocaust remembrance day Friday.

Thousands of Fatah members rioted outside the presidential mansion and the Palestinian Parliament in Gaza City.

Israel and Western nations are likely to immediately cut off funds to the Palestinian Authority when Hamas assumes power, top officials said.

Hamas leaders said they won't relinquish their demand for control of Jerusalem and a refugee "right of return" to Israel.

A Hamas government will have to recognize Israel's existence, the Arab League said.

Andrea Bronfman was laid to rest on Jerusalem's Mountain of Olives.

The Reform movement urged lawmakers to vote against final passage of the budget bill.

Ehud Olmert phoned the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to discuss Hamas' victory in Palestinian elections.

The Jewish Agency for Israel reported a dip in anti-Semitic incidents worldwide last year, crediting political pressure and police crackdowns.

Hamas won a surprise victory in Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections.

President Bush said the United States would not deal with a Hamas-led government if it doesn't renounce its goal of destroying Israel.

Ehud Olmert voiced hope that International Holocaust Day would help fight anti-Semitism.

Holocaust denial is a widespread phenomenon in Russia, especially on the Internet, a report said.

The chairman of the World Economic Forum apologized for an anti-Israel article in the Davos forum's official magazine.

Ariel Sharon could be moved to a coma-care hospital.

Ariel Sharon's son apologized for illicitly funding his father's 1999 run to head the Likud Party.

The production of a new kosher bread in a city in Belarus caused a string of anti-Semitic newspaper articles.

A case involving allegedly Nazi-looted art is now in the U.S. court system.

A Minnesota senator said he was concerned that congressional trips to Israel could be cut under lobbying reform proposals.

Palestinians cast votes in a parliamentary election pitting the dominant Fatah faction against radical Islamist group Hamas.

Ehud Olmert hinted that Israel could carry out further unilateral withdrawals in the West Bank.

Yosef "Tommy" Lapid resigned from his Shinui Party.

Condoleezza Rice once again urged Lebanon's government to disarm Hezbollah.

A New Jersey town approved a Sabbath boundary.

Former President Carter is leading a delegation of monitors to the Palestinian elections.

Hamas will not abandon its quest to destroy Israel even if it enters the Palestinian legislature, a senior member of the group said.

A bipartisan slate of eight members of Congress urged the Chicago chapter of the U.S. Presbyterian Church to stop meeting with Hezbollah.

The National Jewish Democratic Council will ask the Republican Party to disassociate itself from the Rev. Pat Robertson.

Estee Lauder Companies recently donated an estimated $100,000 worth of cosmetics to a community devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Israel sent a search-and-rescue team to the site of a Kenyan building collapse.

A senior leader of Hamas said the Palestinian terrorist group one day could hold indirect talks with Israel.

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney pledged to protect Israel in case of Iranian attack.

Indonesian officials honored the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for its tsunami relief efforts.

Former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk appealed his deportation.

An Israeli actor who played his own father, an athlete slain at the 1972 Olympics, in "Munich" said the experience helped him achieve closure.

The United States and Oman signed a free trade agreement on the basis of an understanding that the Persian Gulf state will not boycott Israel.

Germany's chancellor backed preliminary efforts for a Christian-Muslim-Jewish dialogue.

An Irish government committee recommended that circumcisions carried out by mohels should be permitted to continue.

Israeli Nobel laureate Robert Aumann criticized the government's treatment of settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

Jewish philanthropist Andrea Bronfman died Monday in New York City after she was hit by a car.

Israel is scaling back military missions in the West Bank before Palestinian Authority elections.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will bring disaster upon his people, Israel's defense minister said.

The Russian government may be prepared to bring the religious sites of St. Petersburg's main faiths under partial police protection.

Benjamin Netanyahu said that as prime minister he would accept further territorial concessions to the Palestinians.

The leader of Israel's Labor Party said he would keep Jerusalem united if elected prime minister.

An award-winning film about Palestinian suicide bombers will not be shown at major Israeli cinemas.

Jimmy Carter urged Israel to uproot more West Bank settlements.

Pope Benedict XVI has named a new envoy to Israel.

A plaque went up at the site of a former Reform temple in Germany.

Russia nixed an Israeli recommendation for immediate sanctions on Iran.

A U.S. court sentenced a former Pentagon analyst at the center of a classified information case involving the pro-Israel lobby to more than 12 years in prison.

Israeli security forces raised their operational readiness to the second-highest level after Thursday's suicide bombing.

Israel accused Iran and Syria of involvement in Thursday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

French officials said stronger policing caused a significant drop in anti-Semitic incidents last year.

Most Israelis favor further unilateral withdrawals in the West Bank, a poll found.

FBI agents interviewed a Palestinian pollster with links to Jewish institutions about his conversations with a man accused of ties to Islamic Jihad.

Hundreds attended the funeral of an Israeli Arab killed by Israeli police.

Israel renewed its request for special U.S. aid in funding the Gaza Strip withdrawal.

A group of activists has asked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to do more to acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism.

At least 10 people were wounded in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah's leader said missing Israeli airman Ron Arad is probably dead.

Almost two-thirds of Israelis would agree to ceding areas of east Jerusalem to the Palestinians under a peace deal, a survey found.

Jordan is preventing Orthodox Jewish Israelis from entering the country, ostensibly for fear they could be attacked, Israel's Foreign Ministry said.

Europe turned down Iran's offer to continue negotiating on its nuclear program.

The Palestinian Authority president said he would like to meet Israel's Ehud Olmert for peace talks.

Israel's new foreign minister rebuked the Palestinian Authority for letting Hamas run in upcoming elections.

Israel will launch peace talks with the Palestinians after Israeli elections, Shimon Peres told senior U.S. Republicans and Democrats.

The United States blocked the assets of Syria's military intelligence chief, citing in part his support for Palestinian terrorists.

Seven Holocaust memoirs will be exhibited at the United Nations.

The Palestinian Authority president said he would like to meet Israel's Ehud Olmert for peace talks.

Israel's Labor Party elected its Knesset candidate list.

Two-thirds of U.S. teenagers say religion and faith are important to them, a new survey says.

A Jewish school reopened in New Orleans.

An anti-Sharon cartoon in one of Australia's leading newspapers is causing controversy.

The number of people attending an annual Paris event focused on aliyah fell by more than half.

The Orthodox Union commended a New York state initiative to provide tax credits for educational instruction to low-income families.

Israeli Arab leaders are more radical than their constituency, according to a new poll.

A ceremony was held in Argentina for the 61st anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance.

Noam Chomsky said Iran would be "crazy" not to develop nuclear weapons.

An Austrian court ordered the return of paintings to the heir of their original Jewish owner.

Ariel Sharon, in a coma, may have opened his eyes.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon's assisted suicide law.

Israeli troops killed a senior Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank.

Amazon.com pulled a link that recommended users who purchase a Haggadah aimed at Orthodox Jews also purchase a "messianic Jewish" one.

A young man tried to attack worshippers at the synagogue in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

A drama about Palestinian suicide bombers won the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film.

Moscow's chief rabbi, who was banned from Russia for more than nine weeks last year, was issued a new visa good for one year.

A U.S. appeals court upheld the decision to strip a man of his citizenship for lying about his World War II-era activities.

Oprah Winfrey will visit Auschwitz and make Elie Wiesel's "Night" her next book-club selection.

Iran said it would end international monitoring of its nuclear activity if the issue is referred to the U.N. Security Council.

Prosecutors charged a man who allegedly stabbed eight people at a Moscow synagogue with racially motivated attempted murder.

Israel's defense minister delayed the evacuation of an illegal West Bank settlement outpost.

Israel's ambassador to the United States accepted an apology from the Rev. Pat Robertson and planned to speak with the religious leader.

Rev. Jesse Jackson chastised religious conservatives who he said use a "perverse theology" to justify racism and anti-Semitism.

The Republican Jewish Coalition postponed a controversial program that included a writer who has called Ariel Sharon "vile."

Venezuelan Jews said the Simon Wiesenthal Center rushed to judgment when it accused the country's president of making anti-Semitic remarks.

An Israeli Arab soccer club was sanctioned over a riot by its fans.

Lebanese security forces arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to attack Israel.

A defendant in the Florida Islamic Jihad case wants to know whether illegal wiretaps played a role in his prosecution.

President Bush called Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli prime minister.

A man stabbed seven others at a Moscow synagogue.

The major players in the effort to get Iran to limit its nuclear program plan to meet next week.

Condoleezza Rice welcomed Israel's decision to allow Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem to vote.

Israel said U.S. evangelical leader Pat Robertson would not be allowed to take part in a planned Christian tourist site.

Three Likud Party ministers quit Israel's government.

Syria continues to harbor and back terrorists, including Hezbollah, the U.S. State Department said.

More than 100 members of Congress visited Israel in 2005.

President Bush signed a free trade agreement with Bahrain that conditions the pact on ending the boycott with Israel.

Steven Spielberg's "Munich" might be shown in Malaysia.

Israel urged Russia to help rein in Iran's nuclear program.

Officials in Israel's Kadima Party are reportedly exploring the possibility of placing Ariel Sharon at the top of its list for Israel's upcoming elections.

The United States threatened to take Iran to the U.N. Security Council over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.

Warsaw's Jewish community recently received its biggest compensation deal since the government agreed to communal property restitution in 1997.

A Muslim cleric on trial in Britain for inciting hate said Hitler was sent into the world because Jews are blasphemous and dirty.

Hadassah Hospital disputed a report that questioned Ariel Sharon's medical treatment.

The International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians selected Rep. Gary Ackerman (D.-N.Y.) as its president.

The mastermind of the 2002 "Passover massacre" bombing received 35 life sentences.

An Iranian journalists' association reportedly is preparing to hold a conference on the Holocaust that will be open to those who question it.

Two Jewish boys wearing yarmulkes were attacked in front of a train station in a Paris suburb.