An Orthodox Jew was found not guilty by a Hague appeals court of failing to produce an ID card on the Sabbath. The man had faced a fine of nearly $200 for failing to prove his identity when requested to do so by police, under a national ID law. Orthodox...

Michael Frazier is the winner of BBYO’s AZA Oratory contest, the results of which were announced at BBYO’s International Convention 2012 taking place this week in Atlanta, Ga. He addressed the prompt: “Am I a Jewish American or American Jew? Jewish...

A new Kehillah (community) group at Shaare Zedek Synagogue is seeking to connect Jewish young adults in St. Louis with a sense of community and interesting, interactive events. For those who are post-college but pre-kids, or young Jewish adults looking...

SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- Orthodox Jews have appealed to a court in Sydney to overturn a decision to deny them an Eruv. Plans for a symbolic religious enclosure have been underway for more than five years on Sydney's north shore, but last year the local...

PRAGUE -- Jewish and historical groups in Poland have called for a day to be devoted to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust. The Association of the Children of the Holocaust, the Jan Karski Association, and the Museum of the History of Polish...

A leader of Hungary's far-right, anti-Semitic Jobbik Party questioned the Holocaust and claimed that Jews were colonizing Hungary, in an interview with Britain's Jewish Chronicle. Marton Gyongyosi, deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman for Jobbik,...

SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian TV broadcaster rejected complaints from Jewish groups that a controversial series "endorses and reinforces demeaning stereotypes about Jews." Special Broadcasting Service ombudsman Sally Begbie this week dismissed a...

TORONTO -- A prominent Orthodox rabbi in Toronto has condemned the latest book by celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and pronounced it is "forbidden" for anyone to buy or read it. In an open letter published on the Jewish news website The Algemeiner, Rabbi...

AMENDOLARA, Italy -- It was International Holocaust Memorial Day, and when I told my audience that I was a Jew, they burst into applause. I was speaking at the City Hall in this ancient seacoast town in Calabria, deep in southern Italy on the instep...

More than four of every five Israeli Jews believe in God and three-quarters of Israeli Jews keep kosher, according to a survey. The study, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute's Guttman Center and paid for by the Avi Chai Foundation, also found...

WASHINGTON—A Palestinian mufti has called for violence against Jews, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding Palestinian leaders disavow him and America's presidential race could be affected. That could be the lead sentence of a news...