NEW YORK (JTA) — Hasia Diner is one of the most acclaimed American Jewish historians in the country. A product of the Habonim Dror Zionist youth movement, she is a former Fulbright Professor at the University of...
(JTA) — The three New York City police officers who staged a fake traffic stop as part of a Jewish couple’s wedding proposal will not face disciplinary action after an internal investigation.
(JTA) — The family of the late Polish-Jewish man whose story inspired the Academy Award-winning 2002 film “The Pianist” has won on appeal a defamation suit over claims that he was a Nazi collaborator. According to Agence France Press, the...
(JTA) — The communal home serving the Jewish social justice group Moishe Kavod House in Boston was seriously damaged in a fire. The three-alarm fire on July 26 left the home unlivable for its residents, four Jewish men and women...
Samaria (TPS) – A joint operation of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) special operations forces on Sunday night apprehended the members of the suspected terror network responsible for the murder of...
Rabbi Deborah Silver, the incoming rabbi at Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation, will be honored next Shabbat with a Shabbat dinner and Kiddush at the synagogue next Friday, August 5, beginning at 6:15 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — President Barack Obama praised America’s diversity and solidarity, and defended his record, while imploring Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Obama was the final speaker on a Democratic National Convention night Wednesday filled with big names. He...
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Hillary Clinton laid out a broadly progressive domestic agenda as she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, adopting rhetoric and policies championed by her primary rival, Bernie Sanders.
Clinton also celebrated her achievement as the first woman to...
(JNS.org) — Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer told a gathering of Democrats at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia that Israel still believes that a two-state solution is the best outcome to the conflict with the...
(JTA) — Hamas is digging more than six miles of tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel each month and some are undetectable, Israeli defense and diplomatic officials said.
Citing a Channel 2 news report quoting unidentified officials, The Times of...