Donald Trump announced Saturday that attorney Will Scharf will join his White House team. “I am pleased to announce that William Owen Scharf will serve as assistant to the president and White House staff secretary,” the president-elect said in...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed one of his Jewish personal attorneys to a powerful position in the White...

Dana Bash, chief CNN political correspondent, denounced Code Pink after the anti-Israel group posted video footage of one of its members accosting Bash at Main Line Reform Temple, in the Philadelphia area, where she spoke on Thursday. “What is going...

WASHINGTON — One of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s last actions as the outgoing Senate majority leader is an attempt to codify a controversial definition of antisemitism in the face of claims from the left and the right that it impinges on free speech. The...

Mel Brooks, who mocked Adolf Hitler in his 1967 black comedy “The Producers,” has always made the case for satire as a weapon against tyranny. “You have to bring him down with ridicule,” he told “60 Minutes” in 2001. “It’s been one...

For most of Jewish culinary history, anyone seeking to make matzah balls faced one major choice: sinkers or floaters? In the 20th century, with the advent of home-cooking conveniences, another decision joined the one about density: from scratch or...

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and associated with a Holocaust denier. Gaetz, 42, was...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. President-elect Donald Trump began shaping his cabinet this week, rolling out nominations that feature people deeply connected...

President-elect Donald Trump announced that the “great public servant, governor, and leader in faith for many years” and “highly respected” Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, will be the U.S. ambassador to Israel during the next administration. Huckabee...

Demonstrators holding flags with Nazi swastikas targeted two rural Michigan towns over the weekend, including the site of a community theater production of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” They also reportedly chanted a pro-Donald Trump slogan. The...

U.S. law prohibits nonprofits from providing support to organizations involved with terrorism, but enforcing that prohibition requires the government to furnish proof of a violation, triggering a judicial process that can be lengthy and arduous.  In...

Donald Trump has announced the appointments of two prominent Jewish allies to major positions in his incoming administration, sparking a mix of reactions from political and Jewish communities. On Monday, Trump revealed that Lee Zeldin, a...