WASHINGTON — For decades, President Joe Biden has called himself a “Zionist.” But in the waning days of his reelection campaign, he wondered aloud if anyone knew what the term means anymore. Speedy Morman, a podcaster, had asked Biden in a July...

A new documentary about Benjamin Netanyahu premiered at a major film festival this week, at a moment when he is facing intense global scrutiny. But filmgoers in the Israeli prime minister’s own country may never get to see it. That’s because “The...

Early in her senior year in high school in Washington D.C., Elie Ravitz-Basser realized that the Israel-Gaza war would upend her college plans. “I applied to four universities in the United States early in the fall, but everything changed after Oct....

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. With just 55 days until the presidential election and early voting set to begin in Pennsylvania later this month, Jewish...

Around 1 a.m. Wednesday night, Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, had finally received a “get,” or Jewish divorce contract. For Sash, better known on Instagram...

Pretending to recruit for a pro-Hamas fraternity on a college campus taught two Jewish comedians how much future leaders can be sheep. Zach Sage Fox, the CEO and founder of a production company, and Yechiel Jacobs posed as recruiters for a fictitious...

Former President Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of hating Israel during Tuesday’s presidential debate, a charge that Harris forcefully rejected.  “She hates Israel,” Trump after the moderators asked how he would end the...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The Republican Jewish Coalition launched a major TV ad campaign on Monday targeting Jewish voters in battleground states....

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. James Earl Jones, the actor celebrated as the voice of Darth Vader who died Sept. 9 at the age of 93, modestly claimed...

(JTA) — As an art director at the United States Postal Service, Antonio Alcalá has designed stamps honoring Woodstock, the Emancipation Proclamation and Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s book classic “A Snowy Day.” But this year’s USPS Hanukkah...

The Israel Defense Forces said that indirect and unintentional gunfire from its troops likely killed Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, and expressed regret over her death. Eygi, 26, was killed in the West Bank on Friday during a protest...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox.   French filmmaker Cédric Kahn’s The Goldman Case explores the much politicized and sensationalized...