News & Politics

BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — Three of the organizers of the Women’s March have stepped down from its board. Co-chairs Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Mari Lynn "Bob" Bland left in July, The...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — A man arrested last month in the shooting of 68-year-old Yosef (Warren) Lifshutz outside a synagogue in Miami, Florida, was charged with a hate crime. Carlints St. Louis,...

(JTA) — Police have arrested a man they accuse of beating a rabbi with a large rock in Brooklyn. Oniel Gilbourne, 26 was attested on Thursday. He faces charges of...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — A suspect was arrested in connection with the fire that burned to the ground a historic synagogue in northern Minnesota. The Adas Israel Synagogue in Duluth, Minnesota,...

BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — A former professor has sued Pace University in New York for discrimination, claiming observant Jewish and older teachers were pushed out of the math department. Jonathan Gersch,...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Comedian Chloe Fineman will be one of three new cast members on “Saturday Night Live” for the show’s 45th season. Fineman, who once jokingly described herself as “1/2...

  MVP, the premier Jewish Orthodox boys’ basketball camp at Camp Seneca Lake, under the direction of Irv Bader and Judah and Carol Rhine, celebrated its 11th consecutive season of...

"Shtisel: Behind The Scene Of The Unorthodox Drama," held a reception and panel discussion at Temple Israel of Great Neck on Thursday, September 12.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not believe Israel was spying on the United States after a published report said Israel was most likely behind cellphone surveillance devices found...

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s national baseball team advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Baseball Championship being held in Germany, an early Olympic qualifying tournament. Israel finished second in...