David Bak, alongside the 1932 Chevrolet Model A he restored, found a friend he worked with at a Haifa auto repair shop in the late 1960s. (Courtesy of David Bak)The “Seeking Kin” column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends.(JTA) –...

(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish teen from suburban New York City came up short in her bid to make the U.S. Olympics table tennis team and did not compete in the trials on Shabbat.Estee Ackerman, a 14-year-old freshman at the Yeshiva University High School...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish prayer books and Torah scrolls in a synagogue in an outpost in the Etzion bloc were burned by suspected Palestinian arsonists.The synagogue is located in the Givat Sorek outpost, established on a hill overlooking the site where...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders snapped at one another over Sanders’ Iran policy in their final debate before the New Hampshire primary contest, with Clinton twice suggesting it would endanger Israel.The NBC moderators...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — An Israeli soccer player recorded a message of support for Pope Francis’ second “Soccer for peace” exhibition match.Pope Francis on Wednesday launched the second edition of “Soccer for Peace,” an exhibition...

(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents documented last year in Britain was lower by 22 percent than the record figure in 2014, the Jewish community’s security umbrella said.The Community Security Trust, or CST, counted 924 anti-Semitic incidents...

Peyton Manning, left, and Cam Newton are set to face off in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. (Christian Peterson/Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)When the Denver Broncos face the Carolina Panthers in Sunday’s Super Bowl 50, only one team will emerge victorious. But...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – The Dutch foreign ministry denied reports in Israel that it stopped or was considering stopping payments to Holocaust survivors living in Israel.Irgoen Olei Holland, the umbrella group of Dutch citizens who immigrated to Israel, informed...

A Carnival performance by the Mangueira samba school in Rio. (Riotur)RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Brazilians know how to party. Nowhere is that more obvious than at Carnival, Brazil’s most popular celebration festively combining its rich and multi-ethnic...

A view of part of the scorched area of the Carmel Forest, burned in a 2010 fire, with an intact area of the forest in the background, January 2013. (Ben Sales)(JTA) — Despite some high-profile cases of arson in the past year, Israel is the world’s...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stepping off his campaign bus an event with United Steelworkers Local 310L in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 26, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)(JTA) — Hillary Clinton’s campaign claimed victory...

(JTA) — Two vehicles used to transport the elderly and bring meals to senior citizens were set ablaze in the parking lot of a Jewish institution in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The badly burned vehicles were discovered Sunday morning at the city’s Jewish...