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Smith, president of the South African Jewish Congress, died on Saturday, at the age of 77 after a long illness.

"Europe is failing miserably" at preventing violent antisemitism, a prominent rabbi said of the incident.

A local watchdog on anti-Semitism said the octogenarian's death is reminiscent of the slaying last year of a Jewish woman by her neighbor.

Police identified the suspect, a 24-year-old Pennsylvania native, from surveillance camera footage taken from the Nessah Synagogue.

Israeli soldiers killed a teenaged Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank. The 15-year-old was shot Tuesday as he planted a mine on a road leading to an...

Hungary, the only country in Central Europe where a numerus clausus against Jewish students in the universities of the country was officially enacted and is...

An Israeli ulpan is enrolling a growing number of Arabs seeking to learn Hebrew and has become a friendly meeting ground for its diverse students.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu had their first clash hours after Netanyahu was sworn in as foreign minister. During a meeting...

The Cabinet today unanimously rejected the views expressed by U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance over the weekend that Israeli settlements in Sinai are...

In several communities, Jewish organizations with strong ties to both the African-American community and law enforcement see themselves as well positioned to...

The massacre inevitably become an election issue for candidates across the country.

The Central Conference of American Rabbis put off until next year final votes on officiation at mixed marriages and CCAR affiliation with the World Jewish...

The center was named for Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 massacre on a highway near Tel Aviv that killed 37 civilians, many of them children.

The American Hebrew Academy aspires to be the standard-bearer in Jewish education, but major challenges inherent in its mission have prevented the North...

The decision comes during a period of bloodshed in the West Bank.

As Britain's Jews fragment, there is debate over what the office of chief rabbi means today.

Paul Touvier, the first and only Frenchman convicted for crimes against humanity, has lost his last appeal against the life sentence imposed on him April 20,...

Fifty years after a German businessman saved them from death in a Nazi concentration camp, 125 Holocaust survivors gathered here last week to participate in...

M. Rappard, a member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, has shown a keen interest in Jewish affairs in Palestine and other parts of...

The T-shirt, which comes in three sizes and sells for $20, is the latest in a long series of blatantly antisemitic acts and statements by Ye.

Ben Smith at Politico quotes a couple of U.S. officials who say that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama could have a strong...

Political circles here maintained the guarded hope today that the expulsion of Israel Ambassador Arieh Levavi from Buenos Aires marked the end of the dispute...

Thousands of Jews and non-Jews, including civic leaders, local and national legislators, participated in rallies, meetings and hunger strikes across the...

The Obama administration "strongly condemned" the naming of Palestinian streets after terrorists and rebuked Palestinian Authority figures for denying...

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Ariel Sharon said he does not intend to bring down the Palestinian Authority, despite the deteriorating security situation. The Israeli prime minister made the...

The prize was launched in 2015 in memory of three slain Israeli teens.

For years, the Republican Party has reached out to Jewish voters by touting its big tent approach. Just as the party is beginning to reap the rewards of its...

Miriam Karpilov, one of the most popular Yiddish novelists of her day, died here yesterday. She was 75. Born in Russia, she began her writing career in the...

The first Jewish Birth Control Clinic to function in Brooklyn has been opened under the auspices of the National Council of Jewish Women, The clinic, known as...

Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, went on a hunger strike at the federal penitentiary in Marion, III., Thursday night,...

A group of 23 Albanians became the first non-Jews to receive money from a $190 million Swiss fund set up to help Holocaust survivors. Each survivor received...

The Anti-Defamation League has joined with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in an effort to reduce racial tensions among young...

The haredi Orthodox group filed a brief in a challenge to the law headed to the state's highest court.

More than 200 leaders of the Soviet Jewry movement heard and urgent warning that a strategy of protest and opposition may no longer be effective as the sole...

The torching of palm trees in an Israeli town has police baffled. At least 18 palm trees in Holon have been set alight in the past two months, ruining...

A British city reportedly scrapped plans for Holocaust Memorial Day because of local Muslim pressure. The Jewish Telegraph reported that the city council of...

The death has occurred here of Eduard Beit von Speyer, who, until his retirement two years ago, was Chairman of the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banking firm. Eduard...

Congress passed legislation opposed by the Reform movement that would protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits. The legislation passed both houses of Congress...

The Trump administration added sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile testing.

Israeli and American diplomats and technicians began discussions here yesterday on the radio transmitter the U.S. wants to erect in Israel to relay Voice of...

A Danish newspaper report widely circulated in Europe this week maintains that passengers killed and wounded July 11 aboard the Greek car ferry City of Poros...

Oskar Groening has expressed remorse and accepted responsibility for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews, but did not ask for leniency.

Israeli police are searching for two Palestinians who are believed to have killed a Israeli army colonel outside his Jordan Valley home.

The creation of additional Jewish day schools in the United States was urged today at the opening session of the annual convention of the Religious Zionists of...

Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip will soon resume, Ehud Olmert said. The Israeli prime minister addressed the Knesset Foreign and Affairs Committee...

Agricultural Sabbath will be observed this year on Saturday, October 4, the Sabbath of the festival of Succoth. During the Sabbath, sponsored jointly by the...

Rabbi Lipman Levine, a Talmudic scholar who was spiritual leader of Agudath Achim Anshe New Lots in the East New York section of Brooklyn for 42 years, died...

Adi Shamir, a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, is the second Israeli to win the prize.

A peace seminar attended by more than 50 Jewish and Arab women ended here last weekend with pledges to meet again and work together for an end to the...

A plan to develop a comprehensive policy statement on the Middle East for the National Council of Churches which includes sending a fact-finding group to the...

In an unusual display of Israeli-Syrian cooperation, an 85-year-old Druse woman was permitted to cross the Golan Heights into Syria last week to attend the...

A lightning bolt striking a high tension line put the Hadera power station out of commission for several hours Monday forcing the Israel Electric Corp. to...

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary president of the American Jewish Congress sailed Friday night for Europe to attend the world Jewish conference in Geneva,...

As hundreds of Darfuri refugees in Israel get temporary residency status and Israeli ID cards, they are beginning to set up for a long future in the Jewish...

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The local section of the National Council of Jewish Women will sponsor a song recital to be held in the Community Center auditorium on Wednesday afternoon. May...

The Jewish CEO of the Vector Group holding company served as an economic adviser on Trump's presidential campaign.

Limmud FSU conference brings hundreds to listen to Yosef Mendelevitch's account of his daring attempt to escape the USSR.

Two organizations are providing assistance to abused Orthodox women and helping to raise awareness in a community that prefers not to discuss the issue...

Protesters shouted anti-Semitic slurs during a street-naming ceremony in Berlin. During the Oct. 30 ceremony at which a street was renamed Judenstrasse,...

The National Blue Men of America Inc., non-partisan organization out to crush Nazi organizations in the United States, will march in Ridgewood tonight to...

Mordechai Oren, the veteran Mapam activist and journalist whose trial and imprisonment by Czechoslovakia shook and split the leftwing of the Zionist movement...

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has released a 144-page report detailing what he considers to be the achievements of his first year in office. The report was the...

Yeshiva University hired a new faculty member convicted of inappropriate sexual behavior with boys, according to the Forward.

President Obama said the United States could not impose peace on the Middle East.

They were the ideal bubbe and zayde, their children and grandchildren said at the couple's funeral.

The FBI considers the 34-year-old assailant armed and dangerous.

A Jewish physician helped mediate the release of child hostages during the terrorist standoff at a Moscow theater. Leonid Roshal, a 70-year-old pediatric...

In an appearance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the expected incoming chairman of the Foreign Appropriations Subcommittee promised the next Congress...

In the presence of a distinguished gathering of Jews and Gentiles, the newly reorganized Y. M. and Y. W. H. A. will be rededicated formally with a dinner in...

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's alleged assailant, Jared Loughner, has been ruled unfit for trial but will be reassessed in four months.

Thousands of Ukrainian peasants on their way home from church services today surrounded Jewish merchants holding their annual market day at Tlumaczyk, near...

Funeral services were held today for Bernard G. Richards, a Jewish leader whose career spanned more than 50 years, who died Friday at the age of 54. He was a...

The men were accused of providing information to Israeli military intelligence to aid in the assassination; Israel has neither affirmed nor denied involvement...

A special committee submitted a report to the Cabinet yesterday stating that organized crime exists in Israel and flourishes because of police laxity, weak...

In a development that could touch off a new political crisis here, Attorney General Yosef Harish has announced that he intends to press charges of financial...

Morris M. Einson, president of the Jewish Community Center, is the newest member of the City Recreation Commission.

The internationally renowned Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will perform for the first time in the Soviet Union next year, it was announced here. The IPO will...

The Golan settlement announced in June is Israel's second town named after a US president.

The latest Jewish news in the US, from JTA reporters in New York and around the country.

U.N. naval peacekeepers patrolling Lebanon's coast complained of several close encounters with Israel's armed forces.

Only one item affecting Israeli interests directly, and another item touching upon the Israel-Arab situation in general, are included in the provisional agenda...

One man, in his 60s or 70s, was said to be fighting for his life after the incident at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market.

A prominent Argentine Jewish leader was presented here with the French Order of the Legion of Honor by the French Ambassador Armand de Blanquet de Chayla at...

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is expected to meet Tuesday with two Palestinian Cabinet ministers. Peres will hold talks with the newly appointed...

A chance encounter between a law professor and a Holocaust survivor prompted a feel-good story to circulate online. But the facts aren't clear.

The Secretary General of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs said today his union would support members at airfields who denied...

Thanks to a recent CNN poll and an article in Mashable that trumpets its findings, the word is out that 1 percent of Americans believe President Barack Obama...

Council member in Dortmund from The Right also requested a breakdown of where the Jews live according to the city districts.

for the time in the memory of the oldest official at the Habrew immigrant Aid and Sheltering Society, the door opened yesterday without revealing the patien...

The alleged killer was charged with murder Tuesday night, as a local synagogue prepared to mourn a community member killed in the massacre.

Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek hit back hard Thursday at a number of prominent local Christian church leaders who had publicly criticized Israel the day before...

A Jewish general in the army of the Soviet Union, General Dragunsky, who arrived here today, refused to comment on the recent arrests and imprisonment of...

There will be full security cooperation between the Israel Police and American security personnel during the two-day visit by the president and his...

The prime minister won in a landslide and his path to a coalition seemed clear. So, what happened?

Two Egyptian Sukhoi-7 fighter-bombers overflew Israeli positions on the east bank of the Suez Canal yesterday morning, drawing anti-aircraft fire. Israel has...