Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, said in his Senate confirmation hearing that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel were the direct result of President Biden’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Elsewhere...

Six men who were arrested in an attempt to dig a tunnel into the Brooklyn headquarters of the Chabad Hasidic movement accepted plea deals on Monday, while four others opted to go to trial. The guilty pleas were the latest stage in the Chabad tunnel...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater stood in what used to be his family room, a place that once pulsed with life — holiday gatherings,...

Let’s talk bedtime battles. We’ve all been there: the little ones demand a story, but you’re juggling three tasks at once. Now, PJ Library has your back. On Jan. 16, the organization, which offers free, high-quality Jewish books and music each month...

Two blocks away: a school reduced to ruins. Across the street: rubble. Under the door: ashes. And yet at Kehillat Israel, things look much the same as they did at the beginning of the week, before the fires. That’s what the clergy found when they...

Zechariah Mehler wanted to see the swastika for himself. It was September, and Milwaukee was abuzz over a mural that had gone up on the side of a commercial building in the city’s sixth district. Painted on slabs of vinyl affixed to the brick, the...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. LOS ANGELES — There will be Shabbat services in Pasadena this weekend. That’s far more remarkable than it seems,...

(JTA) — Daniel Sher’s voice broke as he related the latest to members of his Pacific Palisades synagogue. Kehillat Israel had just sent a message saying that its building had so far survived the devastating Palisades Fire, but, the associate rabbi...

Before Oct. 7, 2023, before the hostages, before the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and beyond, Israel was being torn apart by a fight almost entirely within its own borders: the judicial overhaul.  Now, that debate is on its way back.  It feels like ancient...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Louis Keene is covering the fires in Los Angeles, where he is based. Follow him on X for live updates on the fire. LOS...

Donald Trump repeated his threat that “all hell will break out” if Hamas doesn’t release the hostages it is holding in Gaza as his Middle East envoy signaled optimism about a ceasefire deal that would see some of the captives go free. The president-elect...