Germany expected to welcome 800,000 asylum seekers in 2015, four times as many as the year before, and the EU’s lion’s share

Dust clouds, heatwave and high humidity expected to taper off by Sunday; Israel breaks power usage, air pollution records

Last-minute Republican efforts to block nuclear deal unlikely to work, amid strong support for deal in Obama’s party

Alan Grayson of Florida announces support for agreement with Yiddish expression: ‘A bad peace is better than a good war’

Publication, which says Jewish state ‘born of injustice and based on injustice,’ is anti-Semitic, pro-Israel group says

Majority backs Netanyahu’s assessment of agreement, including almost half of Israeli Arabs

Amid monetary troubles, institution offloads operation and finances of Einstein medical school

Horrified by the summer’s religion-inspired, deadly attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, ahead of the High Holy Days, local Jewish leaders call for the community to look inward