(JTA) — A New York rabbi who participated in a ring that violently attempted to coerce Jewish men to grant their wives religious divorces has been sentenced to 38 months in prison.Martin Wolmark, 57, of Monsey, was sentenced Monday in a U.S. District...

The scene of a car-ramming attack by a Palestinian driver at a Jerusalem bus stop that injured 11 people waiting there, Dec. 14, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)JERUSALEM (JTA) — A baby was among 11 people injured in a car-ramming attack by a Palestinian...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky criticized Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh for refusing to attend a meeting with American-Jewish leaders because it would be held in office space shared with the agency.“It is unfortunate that...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A searing Holocaust film, “Son of Saul,” is one of five foreign-language movies nominated for a Golden Globe trophy.The Hungarian movie is also an early favorite in the foreign-language Oscar race, which includes entries from...

It’s not every day one receives an email from the president of the United States with the one-word subject line: “Chutzpah.”But today President Obama used that very line in a Democratic Party fundraising email blasting Republicans for their persistent...

(JTA) — Government officials in the heavily Orthodox town of Lakewood, New Jersey removed a Hanukkah menorah from the town square while allowing a Christmas tree to remain.The decision to remove the menorah, which the township has displayed alongside...

(JTA) — Israeli security forces arrested a man they said confessed to carrying out a terrorist attack against four soldiers in the West Bank.The attack occurred Thursday near the settlement of Beit Aryeh and resulted in serious injury to one Israel...

Meyer Lansky at a New York City police station, where he is being booked for vagrancy, 1958. (Wikimedia Commons)(JTA) — The descendants of Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky are seeking compensation for a hotel casino in Cuba he built in the 1950s.Talks...

(JTA) — Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau, who criticized Education Minister Naftali Bennett for visiting an American Conservative Jewish school, visited a similar school himself six weeks ago.During a visit to Washington, D.C. on October 21, Lau visited...

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Representatives of the Polish Jewish community lit Hanukkah candles at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.Polish President Andrzej Duda during the Wednesday evening lighting ceremony reminded those in attendance at the ceremony...

(JTA) — Irving Picard, the trustee appointed to liquidate the assets of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff and return money to his victims, has filed a $95 million lawsuit against some of Israel’s largest educational and medical institutions.Among...

(Yoda, in a screenshot from YouTube, and Maimonides, in an image from Wikimedia Commons)The character of Yoda will not be featured in the upcoming “Star Wars” film, since he passed away peacefully at age 900 in the 1983 film “The Return of the Jedi.”But...