For renowned pianist Kirill Gerstein, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is ‘the dearest’ of them all.

The National Weather Service forecasts that impacts of Hurricane Earl may reach the New York metropolitan area by Friday afternoon, bringing heavy rainfall and high winds.

New Jersey – Ned Gladstein believes that if the Jewish community can’t come to the kosher butcher, the kosher butcher should come to them. The president of Sunrise ShopRite, Inc., recently opened “Nathan’s Glatt,” a dedicated, fully staffed kosher meat department at his ShopRite supermarket on Route 46 in Parsippany. (That store and other ShopRites also [...]

Israel – Shots were reportedly fired at a vehicle traveling in the area between the settlement Kochav Yaakov and Rimonim Junction in the West Bank on Wednesday night. Police who arrived in the area found one person critically injured and one person slightly injured. The event is being treated as a terror attack. Security forces were on [...]

Vienna – Tensions between Israel and Islamic nations have scuttled plans by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to convene talks this year on a Mideast free of nuclear weapons, according to a document shared with The Associated Press. The latest failure to bring the opposing sides to the table casts further doubt on plans to hold [...]

4:35PM EST: Just 24 hours after 4 Israelis were killed in a terrorist shooting attack, YWN Israel is receiving initial reports that gunfire has been sprayed at a vehicle on Route 458 near Rimonim Junction in the West Bank. Two are reportedly injured. UPDATE 4:39PM EST: The car was reportedly hit by gunfire, and overturned into [...]

Gaza City – The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejected compromise with Israel in a fiery speech Wednesday, a day after gunmen killed four Israelis in a strong reminder that the Islamic militant group cannot be ignored in any Mideast deal. President Barack Obama denounced the West Bank ambush as he launched a two-day [...]

West Hollywood, CA – Officials say a man has confessed to fatally shooting three men in a West Hollywood apartment after a drug deal went bad. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Pat Nelson said Wednesday that Harold Yong Park was cooperative with investigators after his arrest Monday and told them he shot the men after a [...]

Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama sternly condemned Tuesday’s violence in Hebron that resulted in the death of four Israelis. Calling the attacks by Hamas “senseless slaughter” carried out by “terrorists that are purposely trying to undermine” upcoming peace talks between Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Obama reaffirmed his commitment to seeing [...]

US president says US will not stop seeking peace in the Middle East; Netanyahu applauds condemnation, says attackers "butcher everything they oppose."