NEW YORK (JTA) — Former JTA Editor-in-Chief Lisa Hostein has been named executive editor of Hadassah Magazine.Hostein, who starts on Nov. 16, replaces Alan M. Tigay, who is retiring after 35 years in the position.Hostein will be the first woman to lead...

An earlier version of the Palestine Advocacy Project poster. (Ads Against Apartheid website)BOSTON (JTA) – The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority approved the display of an anti-Israel ad it had previously rejected.The poster, which features a large...

Haredi Orthodox lawmaker Yisrael Eichler, right, attending a finance committee meeting at the Knesset, Dec. 25, 2013. (Flash90)TEL AVIV (JTA) — A haredi Orthodox Israeli lawmaker accused Reform Jews of destroying Judaism, after Prime Minister Benjamin...

(JTA) — Two white supremacists who were reportedly seeking to start a race war have been arrested by the FBI.Robert Curtis Doyle and Ronald Beasley Chaney III were arrested on Sunday for plotting to launch attacks against synagogues and African-American churches...

Neil Blumenfield competing at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nov. 8, 2015. (John Locher/AP Images)(JTA) — Two Jewish-Americans are among the three players remaining at the final table of the World Series of Poker.Neil Blumenfield of San Francisco...

(JTA) — A British Jewish student faced a storm of anti-Semitic comments on social media after she tweeted an alert about a pro-Hitler poster that had been posted on campus.Izzy Lenga, 21, a theology student at the University of Birmingham, was “bombarded”...

(JTA) — For the first time, London’s main rabbinical court and Britain’s chief rabbi have published the name and photo of a recalcitrant husband, and are calling for him to be banned from synagogues and publicly shunned.In a notice published in...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (JTA) — Over 1,000 Brazilian Jews rallied  in five cities calling for peace in Israel.Demonstrators on Sunday marched along the Paulista Avenue, the main business avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city with some 20 million...

(JTA) — Russian media mogul Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in a Washington hotel room.Lesin’s body was discovered Thursday at an upscale hotel. He was 57.Lesin was the founder of the English-language...

(JTA) — Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz will replace Hilary Swank in the film adaption of Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt’s book about her legal battle with a Holocaust denier.Weisz will play the lead role in “Denial,” a courtroom drama...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Treasury designated for sanctions three entities for procuring military equipment for Hezbollah, part of an intensified bid to isolate Iran and its proxies.The Treasury on Nov. 5 named Vatech SARL, a Lebanon-based company;...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called for an intensified effort to convert Jews to Christianity.Bachmann, a former congresswoman from Minnesota who ran for the Republican presidential nod in 2012, was in Israel last...