TEL AVIV (JTA) — Acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz will receive South Korea’s most prestigious literary award. Oz, 76, will receive the Park Kyong-ni prize later this month in South Korea, according to Haaretz. While there, Oz is expected to deliver...

(JTA) — Entertainment mogul Haim Saban reportedly has pulled out of a campus anti-BDS initiative he launched with fellow billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Saban’s partnership with Adelson on the effort, called the Maccabees, was supposed to show bipartisan...

Israel Antiquities Authority workers restoring the Kiryat Gat mosaic. (Nikki Davidov/Israel Antiquities Authority) (JTA) — A recently discovered rare Byzantine-era mosaic will be publicly displayed for the first time at a festival in southern Israel....

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russia reportedly informed Israel ahead of its airstrikes on western Syria against ISIS. On Wednesday, Russia bombed rebel targets in Syria near Homs following unanimous approval by its parliament to President Vladimir Putin’s request...

Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaking at the ADL Centennial Summit in Washington, April 29, 2013. (David Karp) (JTA) — Abraham Foxman, the former longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, has accepted a role at...

(JTA) — A conference to create a global Jewish food movement has opened in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The Harvest, which began Wednesday, is a three-day festival of learning, cooking and serving Jewish cuisine. The event at The Devil’s Thumb Ranch...

(JTA) — Responding to parents who complained about the distribution at public schools of a map which labeled Israel as “Palestine,” the City of Paris said it was the result of “a simple production error.” The city’s media department gave the...

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A former 19th century synagogue building in northern Poland will be renovated and used as a cultural center. The municipality of Koronowo signed a contract this week to renovate the dilapidated building, which it owns, for $ 625,000....

(JTA) — A pro-Palestinian minister spoke at an alternative location after an upstate New York divinity school revoked a speaking invitation over death threats and local Jewish opposition. The Rev. Graylan Hagler, a senior minister of the Plymouth Congregational...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin met in Jerusalem for the first time in more than two months. The meeting on Friday, reported on Sunday, was considered routine, and covered the regional diplomatic...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Christian schools in Israel will open after a month-long strike over inequalities in funding. The deal reached early Sunday morning will allow some 33,000 pupils, mostly Muslim, to return to the classroom on Monday, Haaretz reported....

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s most recent military chief of staff called the Iran nuclear deal an “achievement.” “I do agree a better deal could have been reached,” one that more extensively restricted uranium enrichment, Benny Gantz said Friday...