Nearly 100 years ago, a group of Jewish scholars and intellectuals who focused on the study of all aspects of Jewish life decided to ensure Jewish history, language, traditions and religious culture were preserved for generations. The result was the establishment...

(JTA) — A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of soldiers in Israel, killing one and wounding five before being shot dead, in the latest incident amid an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In the terror attack on Thursday, the driver,...

(JTA) — A Palestinian assailant used a kitchen knife to stab a man at a light rail station next to Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in violence in the West Bank and Israel. A policeman who was on board the light rail...

(Israel21c.org) Walking through Machane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem with Tali Friedman, head of its merchant’s association, is a slow progression. Vendors want to say shalom, register a complaint, give her a hug. “What a good heart you have!”...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden has not hidden his disdain of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned rehaul of Israel’s courts. But bubbling beneath the surface of Israel’s political crisis is another concern: shared U.S.-Israel...

Aug. 17, 1898 — Russian Zionists Hold First Conference A few weeks before the Second Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, 160 Russian Zionists meet secretly in Warsaw, where organizer Ahad Ha’am rallies support for a Jewish cultural renaissance...

The National Library of Israel is making a small selection of some 466 rare maps and books of Israel, available to be seen online. The maps are part of a new gift received from collector Howard I. Golden. The collection consists of some 466 rare maps...

(JTA) — Saudi Arabia appointed its first-ever envoy to the Palestinian Authority on Saturday, in the midst of ongoing negotiations with Israel and the United States about what would be a historic Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization agreement. Nayef...

(JTA) – The next director of New York’s Jewish Museum will be James Snyder, the former director of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem who is known as a prolific fundraiser for Jewish causes. Snyder, 71, will assume the role in November after serving...

(JTA) — Israel said it has evacuated more than 200 people from a northern province of Ethiopia where a militia is fighting government forces. The evacuees include 174 people from the city of Gondar in the Amhara province, which has historically been...

We all know that consuming too much table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup can contribute to chronic health issues, and artificial sweeteners are problematic too. The World Health Organization’s new recommendation to avoid artificial sweeteners...