(JTA) — Prosecutors asked a Superior Court judge in Washington to sentence Rabbi Barry Freundel to 17 years in prison for videotaping dozens of nude women at a ritual bath.
Freundel, the former spiritual leader of a prominent Washington Orthodox...
(JTA) — Al Jazeera America replaced its chief executive officer in the wake of a lawsuit by a former employee alleging that he was the victim of workplace anti-Semitism.
Ehab Al Shihabi, who has headed the news network since it...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a Senate resolution calling for a “transparent and internationally backed” investigation into the death of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
Rubio, R-FL., who is a candidate for the Republican presidential...
NEW YORK (JTA) – A group of modern Orthodox rabbis have done what advocates for Orthodox gays and lesbians say would have been unthinkable as recently as five years ago: They spoke at a conference on the...
BALTIMORE (JTA) – Not even a shard of glass was visible on the sidewalk outside 311 N. Exeter St. in downtown Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, no sign of the havoc that struck two nights earlier,when rioters had...
(JTA) — The April 19 death of an African-American resident of Baltimore, Freddie Gray, while in police custody triggered a wave of protests in the city and shined a light on its history of police brutality...
(JTA) — A fired Al Jazeera America employee is suing the network alleging a hostile work environment that included “discriminatory, anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks.”
According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court, Matthew Luke was fired...
(JTA) — Adam Yahiya Gadahn, one of the two American al-Qaida members killed in the U.S. drone strikes disclosed April 23 by the White House, was of Jewish ancestry.
Gadahn, 36, and Ahmed Farouq, were killed in January five days...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Key congressional committees approved amendments to a major trade act that would require U.S. negotiators to discourage trading partners from boycotting Israel or Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The amendments, authored by Sens. Ben Cardin, D-MD.,...
