December 19, 2016
1:39 pm

Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

US church shooter won’t use ‘Jewish invented’ psychology in defense

Facing death penalty for killing 9 worshipers in Charleston, Dylann Roof will not call in mental health experts in bid to save his life

By Jeffrey Collins

December 19, 2016
12:40 pm

Israeli national Oren Cohen appears in handcuffs in footage released on December 16, 2016, a day after he was found in a drunken state and holding a toddler in an Arizona apartment at a gated complex he was visiting (screen capture: YouTube)

US dad finds kid in arms of drunk Israeli intruder

Oren Cohen tells Arizona court he was inebriated and mistakenly entered wrong apartment, where he found ‘a midget‘

By Sue Surkes

December 19, 2016
11:42 am

The IDI has partnered with the Times of Israel to present an interactive quiz based on IDI's polling of Israeli public opinion. Take the quiz to see how your views compare to those of the average Israeli. (Courtesy)

Test yourself: How do your views compare to those of the average Israeli?

The Israel Democracy Institute carries out regular surveys in Israel, covering political, social and religious affairs. See how you stack up in this interactive quiz

December 19, 2016
6:11 am

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a thank you rally in Ladd-Peebles Stadium on December 17, 2016 in Mobile, Alabama. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)

Electoral College, unloved but everpresent, prepares to anoint Trump

Following especially vitriolic campaign, this step in process — normally little more than a formality — thrust into spotlight

By Jerome Cartillier

December 19, 2016
4:16 am

In an Aug. 15, 1986 file photo, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is shown Los Angeles. Gabor died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home, her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said. She was 99. (AP/File)

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hollywood star with Jewish roots, dies aged 99

Hungarian-born celebrity, who was famous for being famous — and for marrying 9 times — passes away of a heart attack in Los Angeles

By Hillel Italie

December 19, 2016
2:59 am

David Friedman, Donald Trump's Israel envoy-nominee, speaking to reporters at a pro-Trump event in Jerusalem, October 26, 2016. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Trump aide: Israeli envoy pick is not a rejection of two-state solution

Chief of staff Reince Priebus says all nominees for top posts, including David Friedman, will ‘represent president-elect and his foreign policy’

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 19, 2016
12:28 am

Donald Trump and attorney David Friedman exit the Federal Building, following an appearance in US Bankruptcy Court on February 25, 2010, in Camden, New Jersey. (Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images/JTA)

2 Jewish congressmen criticize Trump’s Israel envoy nominee

Nadler, Yarmuth say appointment of David Friedman is ‘dangerous,’ shows administration’s ‘extremist agenda’

By JTA

December 18, 2016
11:42 pm

An inset of the autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts. (Courtesy of the Government of Mexico)

Lost diary of tortured Mexican ‘converso’ features in early-American Jewish exhibit

Manuscript by Luis de Carvajal was missing for 75 years until spotted by a keen-eyed collector. Now it joins others on display at the New-York Historical Society

By Penny Schwartz

December 18, 2016
9:11 pm

Former rabbi Shimon Garelick (Screen capture: YouTube)

Rabbi disbarred for alleged sex offences is still practicing — report

Shimon Garelick of Nahariya continues to present himself as a community rabbi and counselor, Channel 2 reveals

By Times of Israel staff

December 18, 2016
9:00 pm

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin (seated, left) and President of the Hebrew University Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson (seated, right), meet with rectors from universities in Latin America. (Photo credit: Mark Naiman/GPO)

20 Latin American universities sign cooperation agreements with Hebrew U.

First-of-its-kind conference co-organized by Foreign Ministry lays groundwork for academic collaboration

By JTA

December 18, 2016
8:54 pm

Yossi Cohen, head of the National Security Council and newly nominated to lead the Mossad, speaks at a committee meeting in the Knesset on December 02, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Report: Mossad head briefs Trump staff during secret meeting

Intellignce agency head Yossi Cohen updates presidential transition team on Iranian nuclear deal, Syrian civil war

By JTA

December 18, 2016
7:08 pm

Trump donated $10,000 to West Bank settlement of Beit El, founder says

Former MK Yaakov Katz says 2003 gift was made in honor of David Friedman, who was just tapped as envoy to Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

December 18, 2016
6:43 pm

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev seen during a press conference in preparation for Pope Francis' visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, May 22, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yad Vashem head condemns ‘atrocities’ in Syria

Avner Shalev expresses ‘deep concern over the appalling images of massacres,’ in rare statement from Holocaust memorial

By AP and Times of Israel staff

December 18, 2016
5:09 pm

David Friedman, left, and Marc Zell at a pro-Trump rally in Jerusalem, October 26, 2016 (screen shot Facebook Republicans Overseas Israel)

Head of Israeli GOP welcomes Trump’s Israel envoy pick

David Friedman could move US Embassy to Jerusalem at no cost by merely switching signs at the existing consulate, Marc Zell says

By Raphael Ahren

December 18, 2016
5:00 pm

In this November 1, 2016, photo, a voter is reflected in the glass frame of a poster while leaving a polling site in Atlanta, during early voting ahead of the Nov. 8 election day. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Jewish delegate to Electoral College labeled ‘anti-Semite’ by anti-Trump campaigners

Ahead of Monday’s vote, while chances of an electors uprising are getting slimmer, email campaigns become more heated

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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