(JTA) — TEL AVIV — With no formal training but with all the aplomb of a seasoned chef, Sharona Dahan serves up plate after plate of Moroccan fish — a dish rooted in her family’s culinary traditions — in the bustling open kitchen of Café Asif...

WASHINGTON — The killing of an Israeli Chabad rabbi in the United Arab Emirates shocked many, and illustrated the dangers Jews face around the world.  But if the aim of the attack was to to undermine the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and...

Justin Trudeau said Canada’s government would not tolerate antisemitism after a violent pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal where protesters burned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy. The Canadian prime minister was one of...

The Emirati Interior Ministry announced Sunday night that it had arrested "the three perpetrators involved in the murder of Zvi Kogan, a Moldovan national according to his identification documents at the time of entry into the UAE, where he lived as a...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, and a gladiator barracks known as the Caserma dei...

Ursula Haverbeck, known as the "Nazi Grandma" and one of Germany’s most infamous Holocaust deniers, claimed Auschwitz was just a work camp, not a death camp, and that nobody had been gassed to death there. She challenged a German court to prove that...

Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his attorney general, said last year that campus protesters who express support for Hamas should face FBI questioning. Trump named Bondi, who served as Florida attorney general from 2011...

The new banners hanging outside a public building in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, channeled the college town’s history of progressive activism. One depicted a member of the Chapel Hill Nine, Black activists whose 1960 sit-in at a local lunch counter...

Arthur Frommer, whose empire of travel guidebooks led one interviewer to call him the “quintessential wandering Jew,” died Nov. 18 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 95. Starting in 1957 with the bestselling “Europe on 5...

A number of progressive Jewish groups are backing an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block arms sales to Israel. The effort, a collection of several resolutions, is unlikely to pass in the closely divided Senate but could split Democratic lawmakers.  The...

(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire financier Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, as commerce secretary. Trump announced the appointment on Tuesday, after several Trump associates including Lutnick had...