AMUKAH, Israel (JTA) — They walked up a tree-lined path through stony hills to a square, white building — men in black hats, beards and frock coats; in T-shirts and jeans; in sweaters, slacks and velvet kippahs....
NEW YORK (JTA) — Howie Lassoff, who helped lead Maccabi Tel Aviv to six league titles and won Maccabiah gold with the U.S. squad, has died. Lassoff, a member of the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, died February 7...
(JTA) — Arsonists set fire to the trophy room of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team after the indictment of four fans for anti-Muslim hate speech. Assaf Evers, a fire department spokesman, was quoted by Ynet as saying that the fire...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi David Hartman, a Jewish philosopher who founded the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, has died. Hartman died Sunday in Israel following a long illness. He was 81.
In 1971, Hartman and his wife, Bobbi, and their...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama will focus on Iran, Syria and advancing the peace process when Obama visits Israel.
Netanyahu at the beginning of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday said he and Obama...
JERUSALEM (JTA) – A U.N. agency employee based in Jerusalem who tweeted an incendiary anti-Israel photo nearly a year ago was removed from her position.
Khulood Badawi, the information and media coordinator for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hezbollah denied it was involved in a terrorist attack in Bulgaria that killed six, including five Israelis. Two days after the Bulgarian government implicated two men with links to Hezbollah to the terrorist attack last July, deputy...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Some 300 employees of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem protested the hospital’s decision to bring in a consultant to help relieve its debt.
Hadassah will hire PwC Kesselman & Kesselman, Israel’s branch of the international...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli teenager was suspended from her religious high school for singing on Israel’s version of “The Voice.” Ofir Ben Sheetrit of Ashdod reportedly was suspended for singing in public after complaints from parents of her fellow...
