Mordechai I. Twersky

The two-year-old project, featuring video discs, source materials and a website, was made possible by an anonymous donor.

Departure, after three years, was planned 'a month ago,' according to e-mail obtained by Haaretz.

'The policy is nothing but thinly veiled anti-Haredi bigotry,' says resident Elli Fischer, about the decision to bar non-residents from entering the city's public park.

Jewish worshipers from around the world descend on the Western Wall for traditional holiday ceremony.

Professor predicts CNN's exit from Israeli cable signals a massive shift in Israel's broadcast media landscape and will leave viewers with no balanced choice.

Israel recorded 117 kidney transplants from living donors in 2011, an increase of 64 percent from the previous year.

An array of special events for the week-long harvest celebration include a bird watcher's paradise and a presidential open house.

The names of Netta Blatt-Sorek, and Asher Palmer and his son Yonatan, will be added to a memorial wall outside Jerusalem listing 300 Americans and Canadians who have fallen in Israel's wars.

WATCH: Anglo rabbis share their words of advice for the High Holy Days.

U.S. election law mandates that absentee ballots be sent out no later than 45 days before election day.

Fellowship of Christians and Jews to open office in Seoul; 40,000 Korean pilgrims visit Holy Land every year.

A South Tel Aviv shofar maker offers a glimpse into the ancient craft his family has been practicing for generations.

U.S. Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro leads ceremony at Israeli 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem, attended by relatives of Israeli victims.

Malka Brayer was the daughter of the late Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman, who led the Boyan Hasidic sect for more than 50 years until his death in 1971.

Immigrant artists offer a new take on traditional themes this holiday season.

Damon Rose, the British-born northern regional director of partnerships, died Wednesday after a 13-month bout with stomach cancer.

While there are no figures available on how many English writers based in Israel are resorting to electronic self-publishing, a recent Pew Research Center study estimated that one out of every five American adults has read an e-book in the last year.

Chizkiya Kalmanowitz was in custody for three days after police accused him of trying to steal bones on July 26 from a contested archaeological site along Route 38 near the community of Eshtaol, some 30 kilometers outside of Jerusalem.

Shlomo Slonim was barely a year old when Arab rioters in Hebron slaughtered 67 Jews, including his parents, grandparents and brother, during the infamous 1929 Hebron massacre. He still can't shake the ghosts of the past.

A warrant for Nathan Jacobson's arrest was issued on July 30 by a U.S. judge in California, after the Winnipeg native failed to appear in court for a pre-sentence hearing.

The annual membership rate for a single immigrant will jump to NIS 150 from NIS 115, while the annual family membership will be raised to NIS 250 from NIS 200.

International musicians gather in Safed for 25th annual klezmer festival.

What began as virtual effort by Pamela's friends to ask for prayers for her recovery and to draft financial support for the family soon morphed into a clearinghouse for well-wishers and a community's coordinated response to a catastrophic illness.

Nathan Jacobson, who until recently served as chairman of the Canadian branch of Nefesh B'Nefesh and sits on the boards of Tel Aviv University and the Tel Aviv Foundation, failed to appear at a pre-sentence hearing in San Diego.

WATCH: For religious scribe Shmuel Rosenfeld, the tradition of personally inscribed ritual objects like torahs, tefillin and mezuzahs is what ‘keeps the Jewish people different.’