Joint initiative by government and Diaspora communities promises ‘paradigm shift’ in relations between the two — but who will fund it?

Hours after highest court’s verdict handed to regulator, two-month restriction on video-sharing website lifted

Band members on historic visit to Israel take a tour of the Kotel ahead of Wednesday show at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park

Assad loyalists wave photos and dance in show of support for leader, which opposition calls a charade

Palestinian man arrested after walking towards gate with knife and Palestinian flag in his hand, shouting ‘Allahu akbar’

The rant by Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, a.k.a. the Novominsker rebbe, against ‘heretic’ Jewish movements was hardly newsworthy

Brooklyn man’s car impounded as he drives woman to chemotherapy appointment on behalf of Jewish charity

The US is exchanging five Taliban leaders for captured army sergeant, but opposes a prisoner swap for US aid worker, who lingers in a Cuban prison