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(JTA) — Outraged by a high court’s ruling in the Sarah Halimi affair, a French-Jewish judge has quit his post. “I decided to resign over the ruling, which at first...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Four synagogues in the New York City neighborhood of Riverdale were vandalized as rocks were hurled through their windows and glass doors. The vandalism in the...

(April 26, 2021 / JNS) Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of the French embassy in Tel Aviv on Sunday, in solidarity with the large-scale demonstration held in Paris...

(JTA) — A powerful Chicago lawmaker on trial for corruption allegedly made a derogatory comment about Jews in a newly uncovered wiretapped conversation from 2017. Ed Burke, 77, a longtime...

(JTA) — Is it possible to play Major League Baseball while being a Sabbath-observant Jew? It’s a question that could have an answer within the next few years if Elie...

After the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called for Fox News host Tucker Carlson to be fired, the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) stepped in to rebuke the ADL for “grossly...

(April 19, 2021 / JNS) The deputy commander of Iran’s Quds Force has died of heart disease, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Sunday. Brig. Gen. Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi,...

(JTA) — After a man who killed his Jewish neighbor successfully pled that he was unfit to stand trial because of what a court called a marijuana-induced psychotic episode,...

By Larry Gordon Bernie Madoff the notorious Ponzi scheme perpetrator has died in prison according to the Associated Press. Madoff was serving a 150 year prison sentence after being convicted of...