This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. In Redwood, a new Broadway musical about a New Yorker heading west after tragedy, a tree takes up most of the stage. The...

Three Israeli hostages were released from captivity in Gaza Saturday, including Sagui Dekel-Chen, an American citizen. Dekel-Chen was freed along with Yair Horn, an Argentine-Israeli, and Sasha Trufanov, a Russian-Israeli. All three were abducted from...

Any plan allowing Hamas to rule Gaza would be unacceptable to Israel and ineffective in resolving the conflict, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday. President Donald Trump is willing to take the lead on rebuilding Gaza, as no other viable...

This story contains spoilers for “Apple Cider Vinegar.” Early in the new Netflix miniseries “Apple Cider Vinegar,” the central character of Millie Blake is diagnosed with a rare cancer and told she must amputate her arm.  Desperate for...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance met with Abba Naor, a Holocaust survivor, and with Karl Freller, the director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation, and other officials at Dachau, the site of a former concentration camp in Germany,...

(JTA) — Kanye West’s swastika shirt is no longer for sale, after the e-commerce platform Shopify said earlier this week, amid an outcry, that he had violated its terms of service. But a wide array of shirts responding to the musician’s antisemitic...

Four of Israel’s most distinguished scientists—including three Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry and the president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities—dispatched an urgent letter on Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump, sounding...

A majority of American Jews report changing their behavior out of fear of antisemitism, according to an annual American Jewish Committee report documenting antisemitism in America published Wednesday. Some 56% of American Jews say they have avoided certain...

Dozens of Jewish celebrities and artists, as well as hundreds of rabbis, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times Thursday to object to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The ad is a response to President Donald Trump’s calls to permanently relocate...

Hamas said that it will release three more Israeli hostages on Saturday, a sign that the ceasefire in Gaza may hold despite a crisis earlier this week. Israel has not confirmed that its dispute with Hamas was resolved. But negotiations are ongoing,...