With the Detroit Tigers nearly neck-and-neck with the New York Yankees in the pennant race, the future Hall of Fame slugger had a tough choice to make on the Jewish new year

Brother John Muhammad acknowledges 'urgent need to combat antisemitism' but expresses concerns over free speech and 'loose' definitions

Demonstrators plan series of events to protest PM's appearance at General Assembly and meetings with world leaders, as activist network in US continues to expand

Campaigners say relatives of at least 36 killed, executed in crackdown have been interrogated, arrested, prosecuted or jailed over past month in bid to stop them speaking out

Prayers also held for Jewish New Year at Cairo synagogue for first time in 70 years

Since the Brazilian import hit the Holy Land in 2003, sabras spending days on the sun-drenched coast have jumped at the sporting phenomenon, which now has a male and female league

Vatican archive documents on mass killings in Poland undercut Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t denounce Holocaust as was unable to verify diplomatic reports

Security increased at ex-PM's home; Ben-Gurion House laments 'discourse unfolding toward country's founding fathers,' days after gov't lawyer dismissed Declaration of Independence