This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  Editors Note: Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka was among the major Jewish artists the Jewish Light told you about last month as part of the new exhibition “Roaring:...

(JTA) — In a meeting with Syria’s new leader, President Donald Trump praised him and urged him to establish ties with Israel. Trump, who is visiting the Middle East this week, also castigated Gaza’s leaders. The enclave was governed by Hamas...

(JTA) — Russell Brand, the actor and iconoclastic activist, defended Kanye West’s latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” saying that the artist now known as Ye is “uncancellable.” “‘Heil Hitler’ @kanyewest is uncancellable because he...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The next time someone asks sarcastically if the pope is Catholic, tell them not so fast. He apparently has Jewish cousins....

(JTA) — Ramona Sarsgaard, daughter of Jewish actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, was reportedly one of the more than 70 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University last week. During the protest on May 7, demonstrators occupied...

(JTA) — Hamas has released Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli citizen, back to Israel under a deal reached with the United States. The release, conducted Monday evening in Gaza, may inaugurate a new phase in the hostage crisis that has consumed...

(JTA) — The call went out over email, text and WhatsApp on Sunday night: Come to Huyler Park in downtown Tenafly at 5 a.m. to celebrate — Edan Alexander was coming home. Born and raised by Israeli parents in Tenafly, Alexander, 21, joined the Israel...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. For years, NASA pumped out materials celebrating Kurt H. Debus, the Kennedy Space Center’s first director. Only one...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday morning that the remains of Staff Sgt. Tzvi Feldman, missing since the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have been returned to Israel in a joint operation conducted by...

Has David Denby written about an American Jewish golden age precisely at the moment it is ending? In his new book “Eminent Jews,” Denby celebrates four leading Jewish cultural figures who emerged in the middle of the 20th century: Mel Brooks, Betty...

(JTA) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was just elected as Pope Leo XIV, studied under a pioneer in Jewish-Catholic relations when he attended seminary in Chicago. The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, who taught for nearly half a century at the Catholic Theological...

President Donald Trump has pulled the nomination of a key ally whose  Senate confirmation was in peril. Ed Martin, currently serving as interim U.S. Attorney for D.C., and Trump’s nominee for the permanent role, came under intense scrutiny for his...