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The Life Of Marton Sternberg, Part 4 In Part 3: The bird of prey had spread its wings over the Jewish community of Hungary. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were...

By MARCY OSTER/JTA 03/18/2019 U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted: “Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party." Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat turned Independent who ran for vice president in 2000, said...

By Rabbi Benji Levy A few weeks ago, I woke up to a flurry of messages from my students in Australia asking how swastikas could taint the iconic Bondi beach...

Israel’s average national height rose ever so slightly on Wednesday when former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire officially received Israeli citizenship in a ceremony at the Interior Ministry. The 6-foot-10-inch American-born...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are among the speakers at this year’s AIPAC conference. Pelosi, the U.S. House of Representatives speaker...

By Sandy Eller Community leaders representing the full spectrum of the Flatbush community took part in a meeting arranged by the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition recently at the Ohel building...

(JTA) — About half of American Jews identified as Democrats in Gallup polls in 2018. Some 52 percent of American Jews identified as Democrat, 16 percent as Republican and 31...

(JTA) — Add Beto O’Rourke to the already crowded field of Democratic candidates hoping to unseat President Donald Trump. The El Paso native and former congressman hopes to build...

By RABBI AVI SHAFRAN (JTA) – There are few issues about which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman Democratic congresswoman from New York, and I would likely agree. She is regularly and rightly characterized...

One thing is for sure. While the writing on the pages lying on the table under a clear protective glass appeared as nonsensical gibberish or mind-bending mathematical equations, they...