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.