I’m six months shy of 80 and in two weeks I’ll head from Vermont to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to do 75 minutes of stand-up comedy. Why am I still out there? As Bob Newhart, who died this week at 94, explained, it was worth it to him to take his...

President Joe Biden announced he is withdrawing from the presidential race after weeks of political jockeying in the wake of a disastrous debate performance and diminishing polling numbers. He has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Moments later,...

President Joe Biden said he was quitting the race for president in a letter posted to social media on Sunday, and then tweeted a hearty endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The announcement followed a chorus of  calls for Biden...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, taking off the Democratic presidential ballot one of the country’s longest-serving and staunchest supporters of Israel. If Harris...

If there is one story that defines Joe Biden’s relationship with Israel, it is the famous Golda Meir anecdote. At an Israeli embassy Independence Day bash in 2015, the then-vice president told the story he had been telling for 42 years. He was a neophyte...

(JTA) — When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the wall between her bedroom and his home office in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 5 a.m. start time for the daily Talmud learning her father had...

MILWAUKEE — Republican Jews at their party’s national convention this week describe their enthusiasm for Trump as more robust than it has ever been. “Trump is not only going to unite America, he’s going to bring together Jews in the Republican...

For a company whose founder was a literal Nazi, you would think Adidas might tread lightly launching a shoe referencing the 1972 Munich Olympics, when 11 members of the Israeli delegation were killed after being taken hostage by a Palestinian terrorist...

July 18, 1290 — England Expels Its Jews King Edward I orders the expulsion of the Jews from England, where they had settled in significant numbers only in the 11th century. Despite gaining legal protections early in the 12th century, Jews suffer massacres...

MILWAUKEE — A dominant chant at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday was “Fight!” — what President Donald Trump said when he rose after an assassination attempt last week, and what many convention attendees believe is needed to secure...

(JTA) — A chorus of Israeli and Palestinian teens won hearts, applause and a chance at $1 million with a successful “America’s Got Talent” audition that aired on Tuesday night. The Jerusalem Youth Chorus performed Phillip Phillips’ “Home,”...

If the only history-making Jewish feat in baseball this week had been a historic grand slam, it would have been enough. But then a half-dozen Jewish ballplayers were picked in the MLB Draft — eclipsing 2023’s group of five. Jewish players still...