(JTA) — Hamas has released 17 more hostages — 14 Israelis, including one U.S. citizen, and three foreign nationals — to the Red Cross as part of its agreement with Israel to pause the fighting in...

Thirteen Israeli hostages were released on Friday as part of a ceasefire deal, 49 days after Hamas terrorists kidnapped them and some 230 others during the Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in the northwestern...

(JTA) – For the last five years, thousands of Jewish children in Illinois and their families have taken advantage of a state program that lets them defray the cost of private Jewish schools. Now,...

(JTA) — Following six weeks of fighting, Israel’s government has agreed to a deal with Hamas that will free about 50 of the hundreds of hostages that Hamas took in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Most...

Israeli police arrested Marvat Azzeh, an NBC News freelance journalist in Jerusalem, last week for glorifying Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel. The network subsequently cut ties with...

Nusach Hari B’nai Zion is hosting its 118th Anniversary Dinner on Sunday, Dec. 3 at the Clayton Plaza Hotel. Hors d’oevres will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the dinner and program will begin at 6:30...

As regular readers may remember, I’m a sucker for a good love story. And I was pretty sure I had found one when over lunch earlier this month, my friend Dorothy Firestone happened to mention that she...

This story was originally published by the Riverfront Times and is published here with full permission. Read the original story here.  A man who previously worked as a teacher at St. Louis area...

The fact the Jewish Light was there in 1993 should not surprise anyone. We have been there and we are here now, but we need your support to ensure that we are here in the future. For...

On Monday, World Children’s Day, Israel tweeted a picture collage of the 40 Israelis under the age of 18 being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. The day commemorates the Declaration of the Rights...

(JTA) — The Jewish Theological Seminary community is in mourning after three revered scholars long associated with the Conservative movement flagship died within days of each other. Israel Francus,...