WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish public policy umbrella called on the U.S. government to recognize the World War I-era Turkish massacres of Armenians as a genocide, a reversal of years of the Jewish community treading delicately around the issue.The Jewish...

(JTA) — British Prime Minister David Cameron endorsed a Jewish community initiative encouraging Jews to observe their Sabbath.Cameron issued a statement Wednesday describing the ShabbatUK project — which aims to have as many Jews as possible to observe...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Eritrean migrant mistaken for an assailant during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba bus station died from gunshot wounds, not from the beatings he sustained by Israelis.The results of the autopsy on Haftom Zarhum, 29, who...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Joe Biden, perhaps the closest Obama administration official to the pro-Israel community, said he is not running for president.Biden appeared Wednesday with his wife, Jill, and President Barack Obama at the White House...

(JTA) — The copyright on Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” will expire at the end of this year, leaving the work open to French language and German reprint editions.The French publisher Fayard announced in a statement that it will release an annotated...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is unlikely.“I’ve talked to President Abbas and I’ve talked to Prime Minister...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Tel Aviv-based human rights organization has filed a charge with a national labor organization against an American union that endorses boycotts of the Jewish state.Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center filed a charge, signed by its...

NEW YORK (JTA) — A husband and wife are suing a suburban New York community founded by Nazi sympathizers for violating the Fair Housing Act.Philip Kneer and Patricia Flynn-Kneer filed a complaint against the German American Settlement League, which...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme who invested $1.16 million or less with his firm will get all their money back, while others will have at least 61 percent of their money returned.The news was revealed in court papers filed...

Migrants from Eritrea and Sudan protesting Israel’s refusal to grant them refugee status outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Jan. 6, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)TEL AVIV (JTA) — In the days since an Eritrean migrant was shot to death by an Israeli...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A West Bank Palestinian man has been indicted for attempted murder for a stabbing attack in northern Israel.Tarak Yahya, 20, was charged in Nazareth District Court on Monday in the Oct. 8 stabbing of a soldier and a civilian in Afula....

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The 13-year-old boy who was stabbed by two Palestinian teens is conscious and breathing on his own, a week after the attack in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Zeev neighborhood.He was brought to the hospital following the attack on Oct. 12 in...