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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote to the UK's US ambassador Karen Pierce on Wednesday requesting that the UK suspend all health decisions regarding...

When an old high school friend lost a long battle with COVID-19, Jay Kleiman went back for the funeral from Puerto Rico to the...

Rabbi Rafi Goodwin was evacuated to the hospital after being attacked outside his shul in Chigwell, a town northeast of London, on Sunday, Erev...

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Holocaust survivors experience lingering effects from the trauma they suffered in their younger years, increasing the chances of cancer and heart disease, according to...

In a rare critique of the French justice system, French President Emanuel Macron said that "going crazy" due to taking drugs is not a...

Iran's Quds Force deputy commander has died of a heart attack, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Sunday. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, who...

As news headlines report on the latest Israeli sabotage at Iran's Natanz nuclear site, the Jews in Iran are battling a serious COVID wave...

Like so many mothers, Raul Artal’s insisted that her son was going to be a doctor. But there was a history — and heroism —...

Israel’s top court on Thursday upheld a Cabinet minister’s decision to temporarily block a prominent academic from receiving the country’s highest honor after he...

After two members of the Jewish community in Derba were violently attacked in recent days and security officials reacted with indifference, international pressure eventually...

Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide,...

The University of Pennsylvania announced it is not rescheduling its commencement ceremony, scheduled for one of the days of Shavuos, despite a petition requesting...

Libyan authorities have quietly made a decision to convert the ancient shul in the Old City of Tripoli into a modern library, according to...

The 13 Jews recently deported from Yemen as part of a deal with the Iran-backed Houthis, are currently in Egypt, Kan News reported on...

Archeologists in the UK digging at an excavation site of ancient shops overlapping Oxford's old Jewish quarter "were stunned" to uncover solid evidence that...

The last three Jewish families in Yemen were quietly deported from the country by the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels, leaving only five elderly Jews in...

Yaakov Weingarten, one of the leaders of the Lev Tahor cult who is suspected of kidnapping and child abuse, was arrested by Guatemalan security...

Italy was dubbed "the land of death" this past year and the Jewish community celebrated Pesach last year under a dark shadow of gloom....

A delivery man in Rome was stabbed after insisting that a fellow delivery man end his anti-Semitic rant over the weekend, JTA reported. The victim...

A 23-year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors spotted a man wearing a hat with a swastika on it at the Melbourne train station on Friday...

Iceland has recognized Judaism as an official state religion, a first in its history, Chabad.org reported. The recognition followed a year-long process, during which Iceland's...

Sixteen Chassidim, including a group of five from New York en route to Vienna, were detained in the airport in Frankfurt on their way...

One of the last Iraqi Jews in Baghdad, a doctor who treated the poor free of charge, passed away at the age of 61,...

Brazilian federal police raided the Rio de Janeiro church on Friday of the pastor who led his congregation in praying for a second Holocaust...

John Joseph Brown, 88, died peacefully last week at his home in Queensbury on February 6, 2021. John was an army veteran and a...

Jewish groups in Switzerland joined Muslim groups in protesting a ban on face-coverings as an infringement on religious freedom after a referendum was passed...

The NBA has fined Meyers Leonard $50,000, the maximum allowed by league policy, and suspended him from using all Miami Heat facilities and activities...

A Singaporean man was arrested for plotting a stabbing spree of Jews outside a shul in Singapore's central business district, security officials said on...

Half a year after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established diplomatic relations with Israel, discreet Jewish communities in the Gulf Arab states that...

A man with a knife tried to enter a kosher grocery store opposite a Jewish school in Marseille on Friday morning but was overpowered...

David Mintz, who was known for his invention of Tofutti, the first pareve ice cream substitute, as a solution for a dessert for fleishig...

A science professor at a university in central Michigan who claimed sinister forces were targeting him and breaking into his home has been fired...

Nothing wrong with strawberry, chocolate, and poppyseed. Even pizza and sushi hamantaschen are so last year. But we’re just saying, there’s always room for...

Jodenkoeken, a dessert staple in the Netherlands since the 19th century, translates as "Jew cookies." It's not clear how the flat round shortbread cookies came...