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As we take time to honor and remember the life and work of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. – whose efforts changed our nation for the better a ...

Organized disruptors -- both students and non-students --who shut down a pro-Israel gathering at University of California Los Angeles in May 2018 m ...

Is it morally acceptable to slash the neck of an animal? Is it morally acceptable to slash the neck of a baby? The New York Times waffles on the form ...

The very sad truth is that a large part of American Jewry has decided not to educate their children and grandchildren to be Jewish in any shape or fo ...

On a recent Thursday, at about 8 am, on a desk illuminated by light from a nearby window, a paper cup of steaming coffee laden with cream and sugar w ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted today that Texas stands with Israel after a Muslim group challenged the state's anti-BDS language. Along wi ...

Author/journalist Charles Krauthammer recalls in a posthumous memoir the ideals that inspired a lifetime of debate and reasoning.

The language of the Torah is, in Erich Auerbach’s famous phrase, “fraught with background.” Behind the events that are openly told ...

Muslim cab driver Farrukh Afzal of Staten Island was charged on Sunday with a hate crime after allegedly beating an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn, ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has just published a 2019 calendar which focuses on the museum’s new exhibit about Americans’ ...

President Donald Trump highlighted his various accomplishments of the past year in a conference call to leaders of the Jewish community. In advance o ...

Human rights advocates are awaiting a response from New York University President Andrew Hamilton after writing letters urging him to take firm actio ...

No European head of government talks remotely like Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. For example, he recently spoke of building in Hu ...

Gay rights activists have been on a collision course with traditional Catholics, evangelical Protestants, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and Mormons for som ...

Judaism Zionism and the Land of Israel. Yotav Eliach. Dialog Books, 2018. 807 pp. Rabbi Yotav Eliach’s new book, Judaism, Zionism and the La ...

Vandalism at the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City, which is adjacent to St. Louis, Missouri, caused more than $30,000 in damages to more ...

For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those ...

Catholic bishops in Ireland condemned legislation that could mean six years in prison for Jewish and Muslim parents for acting in accord with their r ...

President Donald Trump said in a proclamation on Thursday that his fellow Americans have “a moral obligation to combat anti-Semitism, conf ...

On October of 1967, Martin Luther King underscored that "when people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism!"...

New York Times best-selling historian Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust, appears March 20 at 7 PM at Manhattan East Synagogue to launch a ...

Over the past few decades, the question of what Jesus looked like has cropped up again and again. Much has been made of a digital reconstruction of a ...

Fernando Carrillo, a native of Mexico who has been living illegally in the United States for approximately 20 years was arrested by federal immigrati ...

School officials and teachers of the Chatham Middle School and the School District of the Chathams in New Jersey are facing a lawsuit, claiming sever ...

“Trash talk” is “insulting or boastful speech intended to demoralize, intimidate, or humiliate someone, especially an opponent in a ...

Members of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom in Essex County, New Jersey, joined members of Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel -- a Reform synagogue in South ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invoked a Muslim hadith commonly used by Hamas and other terrorist supporters to sanction killing Jews during ...

It’s starting to sound like a plan. Since the beginning of the Oslo “peace process,” it has been assumed that Israel has more to ...

Pope Francis called for the "status quo" to be respected with regard to locating foreign embassies to Israel in Jerusalem. The pontiff&rsqu ...

Every year since the 1950s, San Jose has had a proud record of honoring Christmas with a grand display of Christmas trees. This year, however, a cont ...

Ellen Koontz, a Kansas contract schoolteacher, is asking a federal judge to re-affirm the anti-Jewish boycott campaign begun by Adolf Hitler on April ...

The stories told in Bereishit chapters 21 and 22 – the sending away of Ishmael and the binding of Isaac – are among the hardest to unders ...

Here follows the published text of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech given at a November 2, 2107 dinner in London which marked the ce ...

Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed a list of grievances he had about the Catholic Church on the door of a cathedral in Germany. It was thus ...

Senate Republicans, joined by three Democrats, stopped a filibuster of the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; ...

Citing his own family’s struggles with addiction, President Donald Trump movingly declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.& ...

A delegation of Israeli Arabs who are fighting the delegitimization of the Jewish state on college campuses remain committed to sharing their message ...

Every Halloween we are treated to an extensive array of Catholic costumes, usually featuring priests and nuns. Some of the selections are cute; some ...

On October 25, Executive Director Robert Nicholson delivered the following remarks at the annual summit of In Defense of Christians at the National P ...

Part 5 of Edwin Black's latest 5-part investigative series, "Hillel at the Crossroads," is based on more than 100 interviews in 4 count ...

Iraqi Jews in Israel and abroad are mourning the death, on the second day of the Jewish New Year, of Professor Shmuel Moreh, 85, emeritus professor o ...

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sought to defend her grilling of a Trump administration judic ...