(JTA) — An ex-teacher at a Jewish school in Russia on trial for inciting racial hatred told his students to “kill the Germans,” one of his former 12-year-old students testified. The student testifying in the trial of Semen Tykman, who taught at...

(JTA) — Ronald O. Perelman, an American Jewish billionaire who in February became chairman of Carnegie Hall, announced he will leave the post. Perelman told a group of his fellow trustees on Thursday that he would step down next month, rather than run...

(JTA) — The mayor of Jerusalem said police should use live ammunition on young Palestinian rock-thrower and firebombers in the city. In an interview with the Times of Israel Wednesday, Mayor Nir Barkat declared “war” on the Palestinian protesters...

(JTA) — Members of the University of California Board of Regents criticized the first draft of a statement of “principles against intolerance” for not addressing anti-Semitism. The regents spoke about the draft Thursday at their meeting at University...

(JTA) — A resort known as the “Catskills of the West” was severely damaged in a wildfire that has devastated Northern California. Hoberg’s Resort, which at its peak in the 1950s hosted more than 1,000 guests a night, including many celebrities,...

SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A woman alleged to have been sexually abused by the principal of a Haredi Orthodox Jewish day school in Melbourne has been awarded $1 million in damages. Justice Jack Rush said in Melbourne’s Supreme Court on Wednesday that...

(JTA) — Austria’s president denied a request by the Anti-Defamation League to pardon a Jewish historian facing jail time for the omission of his aunt from his family’s application for Holocaust restitution. The denial came in a Sept. 8 letter sent...

(JTA) — A former French government minister said Germany “took our Jews and gave us Arabs.” Patrick Devedjian, who served in the governments of presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, made the comments Friday during a news conference as France...

(JTA) — Four northern New Jersey Jewish day schools are promising to cap tuition for middle-income families for 10 years. A $10 million grant from the Gottesman Foundation will offset the cost of keeping tuition flat at Golda Och Academy, the Gottesman...

People walk with face covers at Jaffa Gate near the Tower of David in Jerusalem, Sept. 8, 2015, as a sandstorm hit across Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) (JTA) — Israel’s ongoing sandstorm is the worst since before the founding of the state in 1948,...

Orthodox Rabbi Marc Penner speaking at the Tea Party rally against the Iran deal on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 9, 2015. (Ron Kampeas) REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK WASHINGTON (JTA) – Inside the congressional offices, there were soft-spoken recriminations,...

(JTA) – The FBI arrested a young Jewish American man who is accused of causing a terrorist scare by pretending to be a jihadist terrorist based in Australia. Joshua Ryne Goldberg, a 20-year old living at his parents’ house in Florida, was apprehended...