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Lew slated for US ambassador to Israel

President Joe Biden is asking Jack Lew, former Secretary of the Treasury in the Obama administration, to help establish diplomatic ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia...

New JFK documents: Oswald’s CIA monitor was Jewish

Last month, a new document dump in the declassification of John F. Kennedy Jr. documents revealed the identity of the CIA screener: Reuben Efron, a lieutenant colonel in...

Jewish communal groups react to Pittsburgh sentence

A jury gave the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter a death sentence on Aug. 2, handing down the maximum punishment for the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history.

Palestinian Americans can enter at Ben Gurion

For the first time, Palestinian Americans will be able to enter and leave Israel through its main airport, part of a major policy change that will significantly ease...

Alex Soros controls his father’s wealth

When George Soros gave control of his vast charity to his son, Alexander, it was clear that the new 37-year-old chairman would follow in his father’s footsteps in many...

Jews help evangelicals talk to each other

A Jewish nonprofit, Resetting the Table, which has spent nearly a decade teaching Jewish groups to have more productive and meaningful conversations about Israel, is...

Shul shooter ‘eligible for death penalty’

Jurors in the trial of the gunman who killed 11 Jewish worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue took less than two hours to find him eligible for the death penalty, setting...

Pittsburgh trial: Gunman spurred by white supremacy

The gunman who murdered 11 Jewish worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue did not suffer from delusions but was spurred by white supremacist radicalization, a forensic...

Israeli-Russian academic held by Shiites in Iraq

Elizabeth Tsurkov, an expert on refugees and a Middle East analyst who has Russian and Israeli citizenship, has been held for months by a Shiite militia in Iraq,...

In Pittsburgh trial, defense cites brain abnormalities

Defense lawyers for the man convicted of murdering 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue began detailing their argument that he should not be sentenced to...