Qatari mediators are trying to negotiate an agreement in which Hamas would release some 50 of the civilians it holds hostage in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a three-day ceasefire, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters on Wednesday. The...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. During a recent concert of Latin American music in Los Angeles, one featured singer walked on stage wearing a kaffiyeh,...

(JTA) — On Monday morning, Margie Maidman boarded a caravan of 10 buses from Boston to Washington, D.C., headed to a massive demonstration in support of Israel and against antisemitism. The journey is eight hours each way, and most of the people...

A copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” was found in a children’s room that was used as a Hamas terror base in the northern Gaza Strip, Isaac Herzog has revealed. The Israeli president held up the copy of the Nazi party leader’s autobiographical...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. “bUt Do You cOnDeMn HaMas?????” The sign floated in the distance above the crowd at a pro-Palestine march that...

The St. Louis Jewish Light is partnering with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to bring you an opportunity to hear from five remarkable Israeli authors at this pivotal moment in Israel's history and at a discount. In each of these five intimate, probing,...

Following a shiva, the primary seven-day mourning period, there is a secondary period of mourning called sheloshim. Sheloshim is Hebrew for the numeral 30 and is the name of this period because it lasts for 30 days. Sheloshim is meant to ease the mourner...

  A 43-minute film documenting atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 is getting a wider audience with screenings for Jewish organizations and Hollywood celebrities.  The American Jewish Committee said it was providing the venue...

Like many of you, I’ve been hearing the stirring song, “Am Yisrael Chai” (The People of Israel Live”), sung with great passion — around the country, in Israel and in communities around the world — since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war....

(JTA) — An American-born Israeli border police officer was killed in a stabbing attack near the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as violence has escalated during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.  Rose Lubin, 20, originally from the Atlanta area,...

(JTA) — Hamas has opened the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to some wounded people and foreign citizens as its war with Israel has escalated. It was the first of a series of planned openings of the crossing during the war, which has killed more...

(JTA) — It was on the fourth day of the war between Israel and Hamas, Asher Moskowitz recalled, that he saw the baby among the corpses at Camp Shura. Moskowitz had come to Shura, a military base near the central Israeli city of Ramle, as a volunteer...