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(JTA) — A 17-year-old Israeli girl was killed and her father and brother were severely wounded in a bomb attack at a nature reserve in the West Bank.
(JTA) — Photos of several students and professors from Brandeis University, which has Jewish roots, were posted to a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website.The photos were posted on the Vanguard News Network Forum, in a thread that mocked…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel.The first was fired late Wednesday night and landed in an empty field near the community of Nahal Oz.The Israel Defense Forces said its Air Force responded by firing on sev…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The man whose mother’s burial was delayed in Israel over his alleged refusal to give his wife a religious divorce said reports that he had changed his mind are “fake news.”
(JTA) — President Donald Trump clarified who voters — Jewish or otherwise — are being disloyal to when they vote for Democrats.
(JTA) — Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of an elderly man outside a synagogue in Miami, Florida.
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(JTA) — Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes linked to breast cancer.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amazon announced the launch of operations in Israel.
(JTA) — Mainstream and left-wing Jewish groups called out President Donald Trump as “dangerous” and displaying “textbook anti-Semitism” for accusing Jews who vote for Democrats of being “disloyal.”
(JTA) — A southern California school district is reopening its investigation into an incident in which students made a Nazi salute and sang a Nazi marching song at the start of an awards ceremony.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. is done in the House, and the U.S. ambassador to Israel may not be far behind.
(JTA) — President Donald Trump had harsh words for Jews who support the Democratic Party.“I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” the president told reporters…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fake Twitter accounts impersonating Jews and promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have proliferated following a post on the online messaging forum 4chan.
(JTA) — The third season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” finally has an official trailer, and fans are kvelling.
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the actions of the Nazis and collaborators at a killing site in Ukraine show that Jews must defend themselves.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has reinstated study of the Holocaust as part of a mandatory schools curriculum that will include the persecution of North African Jewry under the Nazis.
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said he “probably” will wait until after Israel’s national elections next month to release his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
(JTA) — Immigration by Jews and their relatives to Israel rose by nearly 30 percent in the first half of 2019 over the corresponding period last year.The 29 percent jump to 16,005 arrivals owed largely to movement by Russian speakers from cou…
(JTA) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib called for a boycott of comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time” after he called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel a “bulls**t purity test.”
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A destitute man from the haredi Orthodox neighborhood of Bnei Brak won more than $140,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket.He purchased the nearly $15 ticket on a whim, the first time he had ever purchased a lottery ticket, a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has reinstated study of the Holocaust as part of a mandatory schools curriculum that will include the persecution of North African Jewry under the Nazis.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli college student died in an Ethiopian desert after getting separated from the group she was hiking with.
JERUSALEM (JTA — Rockets were fired from Gaza on southern Israel for two consecutive nights.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli teen who was injured in a car ramming attack in the West Bank remains in serious condition after undergoing neurosurgery.
(JTA) — An essay written by Holocaust graphic novel “Maus” creator Art Spiegelman for a Marvel book was rejected because it compared Donald Trump to a Marvel villain.Spiegelman said in the essay, which was published in the British daily newsp…
(JTA) — An Ohio man was arrested after he appeared in a post on Instagram to threaten an attack on a local Jewish community center.
(JTA) — Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother cursed President Donald Trump after he tweeted that she should be happy that her granddaughter was not coming to visit her in the West Bank.“Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wantin…
(JTA) — A group of protesters affiliated with a Jewish group interrupted a New Hampshire rally for President Donald Trump on Thursday. In attempting to hit back, Trump ended up insulting one of his own supporters.The protesters at the event i…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — By now it seems clear that Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are not going to be visiting Israel or the Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
(JTA) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who drove his pickup truck into a row of Jewish protesters at a detention facility in Rhode Island has resigned from his position.
(JTA) — After being barred from entering Israel on Thursday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib submitted a humanitarian request to visit her aging grandmother in the West Bank, and Israel’s interior minister approved it.
