A Palestinian grocer from Bethlehem filed suit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on Monday, for the sum total of $115 million in libel damages over his film Bruno, which is equal to half of the movie's gross box office earnings.

The Shavei Israel organization released on Monday the first Polish-language guide to the holiday of Hannukah geared toward Poles who have only recently discovered their Jewish roots.

Syria is now willing to negotiate without preconditions, having retracted its earlier insistence that talks could not begin unless Israel first agreed to withdraw from the entire Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.

DONETSK, Ukraine – In addition to the already wide assortment of kosher foods that are now produced in Ukraine, the Donetsk-based firm UkrKosher has recently undertaken to produce kosher pizza for distribution throughout the country.

Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman came under fire Tuesday after apparently expressing hopes that the state's current legal system will soon be dictated by the Torah.

Political and civic leaders largely turn a blind eye to flourishing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in Egypt, a new report said.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority are each lobbying European Union foreign ministers to adopt its respective position on Sweden's initiative to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and Palestine. The proposal is to be discussed Sunday in Brussels at the meeting of foreign ministers of EU member states.

The mayor of the haredi town Beitar Illit appealed Sunday to the Obama administration to leave his town out of the building freeze since it was not an ideologically motivated settlement.

The Arab League responded negatively Sunday to last week's Swedish proposal that the European Union recognize east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Mahmoud Zahar, the Gaza-based Hamas strongman, issued a swift denial on Sunday of a report that four French doctors had visited abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit last week at the secret location in which he is being held in the Strip.