Puerto Rico’s Jews turn to helping neighbors ravaged by Hurricane Maria
With all of the island’s 1,500 Jewish community members safe and accounted for, the next step is distributing food and water to those in need… Read More ›
With all of the island’s 1,500 Jewish community members safe and accounted for, the next step is distributing food and water to those in need… Read More ›
David Friedman says Israel is ‘only occupying 2 percent of the West Bank,’ adding ‘there is important security considerations to those settlements, there’s important nationalistic,… Read More ›
State Department spokeswoman says David Friedman’s statement should ‘not be read as a shift in US policy’ WASHINGTON — For the second time since… Read More ›
Jerusalem – Ahead of the Jewish Day of Atonement, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance center is showcasing pages of a mimeographed copy of a Yom Kippur… Read More ›
The journalist suggested undue Jewish power in the media. German Jews and experts in the field of antisemitism in the press slammed a journalist… Read More ›
During ceremony marking 50 years to Jewish settlement in West Bank, the prime minister boasts of a return home ‘to our ancestral land,’ adding ‘We’ve… Read More ›
President says world policing body’s ability to fight terror will be harmed, thanks Merkel for stance against AfD; US Jewish groups also slam Interpol move… Read More ›
Religious leaders disagree on talking politics from the pulpit: for every rabbi who insists on taking clear stands, others worry about alienating congregants JTA… Read More ›
Such activity is “making the twostate solution increasingly unattainable and undermining Palestinian belief in the international peace efforts.” Israelis and Palestinians have engaged in… Read More ›
Washington – President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace negotiator, Jason Greenblatt, is returning to Israel to “continue the peace track” after the president met… Read More ›
“A dialogue should also consist of talks with positions that one does not share.” German Green Party MP Volker Beck criticized on Thursday members… Read More ›
Op-ed: The Jewish American public has the best interest of the Jewish people’s homeland in mind, but the days in which being pro-Israel means blindly… Read More ›
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo pulls no punches in telling ‘In Jerusalem’ how Judaism and the rabbinic establishment can begin to respond to the current reality.… Read More ›
Naples, FL – During Hurricane Irma, Temple Shalom served as a sanctuary of a different kind. When the storm changed course at the last… Read More ›
If people are on the Prevented from Marrying list, neither they nor their children will ever be able to get married in Israel. The… Read More ›
Disputes over the military service of haredim are threatening to weaken the governing coalition. The government coalition appears to be headed for trouble over… Read More ›
Weekend sit-down with PM scaled back amid increased tensions over cabinet’s backtrack on pluralistic prayer pavilion at Western Wall Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will… Read More ›
Ultra-Orthodox soldiers denounce High Court’s ruling striking amendment to law on Haredi conscription; ‘trends were positive,’ says Haredi officer, ‘but HCJ is sabotaging it’; ‘Those… Read More ›
Foreign Ministry director Yuval Rotem says Arab pressure that prompted the scrapping of major event in Togo paradoxically shows Jerusalem on the right track … Read More ›
House approves measure calling on president to speak out against hate groups and urging resources for combating racism, anti-Semitism WASHINGTON — Congress has backed… Read More ›