(JTA) — Belgium has become the latest country to announce plans to recognize Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly this month in New York City. In an announcement on X Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Prévot said the...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Darren Aronofsky’s most formative encounter with Haredi Jews may have come when he was an 18-year-old in Israel at the...

Sometimes, the best stories don’t start in the newsroom — they start in the archives. While researching nominees for the St. Louis Jewish Sports Hall of Fame at the Jewish Community Center, I was scrolling through our digital archives when a letter...

It’s happening again. Three weeks before Rosh Hashanah, my inbox, analytics and fragile peace of mind have once again been overrun by honey cake. Back in 2022, I confessed to the St. Louis Jewish community that I couldn’t stand the stuff. In...

Israel is “failing miserably” in the communications war against Hamas, and needs to take this deteriorating situation, fueled by a trillion-dollar campaign by Qatar, much more seriously, the president of the World Jewish Congress’s Israel Region...

(JTA) — A new poll found that half of U.S. voters — including 77% of Democrats — believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide, in a finding that adds to mounting signals of deep public disapproval of Israel’s operations there. The...

Summer in Minnesota began with unspeakable violence: the murder of Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, the attempted assassination of Senator John Hoffman, his wife Yvette, and several other elected officials. It is ending with yet...

(JTA) — Top administration officials under former President Joe Biden are speaking out against Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza and criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he sabotaged ceasefire negotiations last...

(JNS) -- Law enforcement agents in Argentina on Tuesday raided a house south of Buenos Aires in search of a suspected Nazi-looted painting that surfaced online recently, but the object had been removed by the time they arrived, the El País newspaper...

(JTA) — For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “mashgiach ruchani” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure who served as a sort of spiritual guidance counselor to students at Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship...

If you were a Jewish young man coming out of college in the early 1990s, still wanting to be cool and hip, you were listening to the Counting Crows. The band quietly electrified us thanks to their super-hip frontman Adam Duritz. And when it became...

The first Mass of the school year turned into a massacre Wednesday morning at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, when a gunman opened fire, killing two children, ages 8 and 10. Seventeen others were injured, including 14 children — with two in critical...