As the political turmoil rages on in the Ukraine, Jewish communities continue to awaiting nervously the outcome of the civil unrest. With a handful of
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Just how open should Jewish institutions be when it comes to talking about Israel? T
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Sighting too many overly sensitive complaints from kvetching clergy , Newsweek's Top 50 Rabbis List co-founders explain why they have decided, after s
Read MoreBy Talia Lavin and Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA)—The turmoil in Ukraine has left one of Europe’s largest Jewish communit
Read MoreBy Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—A billboard in central Tel Aviv features a black-and-white photo of a distressed woman a
Read MoreBy , JNS.org (JNS.org) Jewish organizations have set up emergency assistance for Ukraine's roughly 200,000-member Jewish community amid ongoing pol
Read MoreBy , JTA World News Service (JTA)—Spanish Muslims urged their government to grant citizenship to descendants of Muslims who were expelled fro
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—When Abraham Foxman steps down next summer from his longtime post as national directo
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews It took six months, $5 million, and a lot of work both in fundraising and construction to reach the moment on Feb
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By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to JTNews Twenty-five years ago, the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee recognized
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews The Feb. 7 announcement by Spanish minister of justice Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon of the introduction of
Read MoreBy Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org Sexual abuse of minors has for many years been among the most controversial and suppressed issues in the Jewish community.
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—Presbyterians who engage in dialogue with Jewish groups are scrambling to undo what t
Read MoreBy Cnaan Liphshiz, JTNews Correspondent (JTA)—When Farida Trichine and 11 of her friends burst into a French supermarket in 2009 and began ap
Read MoreJanis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Considering some of the most recent and nasty publicity surrounding the boycott, divestment and sanctions effort
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By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org Picture a mad science lab with electrical wires, computer chords, ropes, and wheels and you have a pretty good picture of
Read MoreBy Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Hillel at the University of Washington was evacuated Monday afternoon after a fired employee threatened to cause
Read MoreBy JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service Spain's Jewish community congratulated the government for approving a bill proposing to facilitate the nat
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org With the Winter Olympics gearing up for their Feb. 7 start in Sochi, Russia, the Jewish debate on the games mirrors t
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By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Efforts to keep a significant collection of artifacts seized from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein from being
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