(JTA) — A conservative Jewish mayoral candidate from Nashville defended a campaign ad that accused his Catholic-raised liberal rival of fighting with Christian organizations and opposing public prayer. Created by the campaign staff of David Fox, the...

Center Jacoby Boren, center, blocking Navy guard Bernard Sarra during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Baltimore, Aug. 30, 2014. (Patrick Semansky/AP Images) Ohio State may not be know who will be starting at quarterback as its season...

(JTA) — A federal judge has canceled New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in the “Deflategate” controversy. Following the 40-page decision issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in New York, Brady...

MONTREAL (JTA) — Skepticism is rising over the Montreal businessman dubbed the “Jewish Schindler” for purportedly rescuing Yazidi and Christian women and children from ISIS in Iraq. Steve Maman has earned worldwide praise for his efforts to save...

PIKESVILLE, Md. (JTA) — AIPAC chief Howard Kohr wants you to look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, and then he wants you to look at your smartphone. “Go to that little address icon where you put in new numbers,” the executive director...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Gravestones were smashed, and trees and bushes set on fire in the Mount of Olives cemetery in eastern Jerusalem. The vandalism was discovered after midnight on Wednesday morning, when reports of flames and smoke led firefighters to...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish-Israeli man who planned to join the Islamic State was apprehended in Turkey and returned to his parents. Turkish authorities apprehended the man, 21, whose family members arrived in Turkey and traveled back to Israel with...

(JTA) — The Polish governor of the province in which a fabled Nazi train loaded with stolen gold and riches reportedly has been located tried to lower expectations of the discovery. Tomasz Smolarz, provincial governor of Lower Silesia in south west...

(JTA) — Marvin Mandel, the only Jewish governor of Maryland, died at 95. Mandel, a Democrat who led the East Coast state from 1969 until 1977, died Sunday afternoon in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. The cause of death was not provided. His gubernatorial...

(JTA) — A British man whose grandfather survived the Holocaust said he would move to Israel when he is done fighting Islamists in Syria. Timothy Paul Jacobs-Woodworth, 37, revealed his plan to immigrate in an interview published Sunday by the news site...

(JTA) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is closing the gap in Iowa on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic race for president, according to a poll. Clinton leads Sanders, who is Jewish, by a margin of 37 percent to 30 percent among likely...

(JTA) — A British-Jewish newspaper called on Jeremy Corbyn, the frontrunner to head Britain’s Labour Party, to address allegations that he is tied to anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers. An editorial published Wednesday on the online edition of the...