MOSCOW (JTA) — A newly-established rabbinical seminary in Moscow for Reform Jews received its first class, made up of seven students. The seven — four women and three men — began attending the Moscow Rabbinic Leadership Institute, also known as...

Jewish rapper Lil Dicky (seen in this image parodying the cover of Drake’s album “Nothing Was the Same”) released his debut album this summer. (YouTube) This year, as always, Jews contributed to the worlds of art, music, literature, film, television,...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hundreds gathered outside the Capitol for a rally against the Iran nuclear deal featuring shofar blowing and presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Wednesday’s demonstration on the West Lawn was sponsored by the Tea Party...

One of the buildings on the Bronx campus of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. (Wikimedia Commons) (JTA) — Yeshiva University has finalized an agreement to transfer the operations and finances of its medical school to the Montefiore Health System,...

Tourists at Auschwitz photograph the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate in July, 2015. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) (JTA) – Pawel Sawicki gets to his desk every morning by 7, but he works no regular office job. Sawicki is an information officer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Jewish senators announced their backing for the Iran nuclear deal, bringing the total of senators supporting to 41 — enough to block Republicans from advancing a vote against it. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Richard Blumenthal,...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The haredi Orthodox man who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, leaving a 16-year-old girl dead, was charged with murder. Yishai Schlissel, 39, was charged Monday in Jerusalem District Court on one count of premeditated...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Jewish extremist teens were indicted for an arson attack last month on a Bedouin tent in the West Bank. Avi Gafni, 19, and a minor were indicted on charges of incitement, threats, conspiring to commit a felony, and obstructing...

(JTA) — A banner flown over the tailgate party of the University of Oklahoma’s opening football game called for the university’s president to “#return the stolen art.” The banner towed by a plane for about two hours on Saturday was referring...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Eleven Israel Police officers were disciplined in the wake of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade. Among the seven officers being reassigned are the head of police intelligence for the Jerusalem District, as well...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, endorsed the Iran nuclear deal, becoming emotional as she described the pressures she felt in arriving at her decision. The congresswoman, one of the Democratic...

  Vice President Joe Biden, right, laughing as he is introduced by DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., at the DNC Women’s Leadership conference in Washington, Sept. 19, 2014. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Images) At the 2008 Democratic National...