Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that Israel does not seek to stay in Gaza, but to replace the Hamas regime with an expanded military operation, and insisted that was the best way to bring the war to a speedy conclusion. “Our...

(JTA) — U2 frontman Bono stood out in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel for dedicating a song to the hundreds of “beautiful kids” murdered at the Nova music festival. Now, Bono and his bandmates have broken...

(JTA) — The UJA-Federation of New York will send $1 million to an Israeli humanitarian group providing aid to civilians in Gaza, the federation’s CEO announced on Friday. The funds will go to IsraAID, Israel’s largest nongovernmental aid...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Sunday endorsed a Senate push to block U.S. arms sales to Israel, calling it “the right...

The Clayton Police Department is asking for the public’s help as they work to solve a hate crime that shook a quiet neighborhood early Tuesday morning. Around 3 a.m. on August 5, three vehicles were set on fire in the 7500 block of Westmoreland Avenue....

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting an NBC News report that a recent conversation between him and President Donald Trump “devolved into shouting” on the issue of humanitarian aid in Gaza. NBC reported that four...

(JTA) — Israel’s security cabinet has endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand fighting in Gaza, despite warnings from military leaders and others that doing so would put soldiers and hostages at risk. The plan approved early...

(JTA) — Hate crimes against Jews in the United States reached an all-time high in 2024, accounting for 70% of all religiously motivated hate crimes, according to FBI data released this week. The new FBI report released Tuesday found that hate crimes...

Jewish cemeteries are full of clues: symbols, inscriptions, carvings. Many of us have seen them, but never truly read them. On Sunday, Aug. 24, the Jewish Special Interest Group of the St. Louis Genealogical Society is hosting a free session about understanding...

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, arrived at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly last week with decades of experience building ties between the Lutheran and Jewish communities. But on Wednesday,...

When Emily Austin was 16, a Holocaust education trip to Poland changed her life. The child of secular Israeli immigrants to New York, Austin grew up in Brooklyn and decided early on that being a Jew was important to her identity. But after the Poland...