Hamas keeping most demonstrators away from fence, but some still burning tires and launching rocks and firebombs at soldiers

Ministers reject recommendation of government commission, which says the former Jerusalem top cop would damage public trust in the police

Hate Crimes task force investigating after 9-year-old and 12-year-old assaulted within half an hour of each other in Williamsburg neighborhood

Prizing the original literary style above all else, Robert Alter becomes the first scholar to single-handedly produce a comprehensive English language text

South American leader raises minimum wage, claims Washington is using sanctions to wage an economic war against the country

Moshe Edri is deemed unfit to be the next Police Commissioner, but a minister isn't giving up the fight, and the outgoing chief is caught in the center of the hubbub

Authorities say girl had been reported missing by her father 2 months ago, may have been hidden by her mother; 6 detained in raid, including 4 minors

Though a tiny minority in largely separate communities, interfaith relationships have defied odds and societal pressures. But some say the challenge is growing harder and harder