(JTA) – Only a third of American respondents to a survey about President Barack Obama’s performance said they approved of his handling of the Iran nuclear deal. In eight issues measured in the new Gallop survey published Thursday, Obama scored lowest...

(JTA) – Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi accused the founders of a private conversion court of “fighting against the Torah.” David Lau made the allegation Thursday night at the inaugural event of B’Noam, a lobby group devoted to defending the...

(JTA) — Fiamma Nirenstein, an Italian journalist and former parliamentarian, has been named Israel’s ambassador to Italy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also serves as Israel’s foreign minister, announced the decision to appoint Nirenstein...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (JTA) —  An Orthodox synagogue was opened officially a few blocks from the iconic Ipanema Beach in Brazil. Some 1,200 people attended Sunday’s inauguration of the four-story, 440-seat synagogue in Rio de Janeiro named for...

A Boy Scout marches in an LGBT Pride parade in New York City, June 28, 2015. (A. Katz/Shutterstock) (JTA)— After 14 years of discord, Reform Jewish leaders are recommending that Jewish institutions re-establish ties with the Boy Scouts of America. The...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Home party has filed a police complaint over threatening comments posted to chairman Naftali Bennett’s Facebook page. The posts call for violence against Bennett, Israel’s education minister, and other politicians with...

U.S. President Barack Obama and Jewish leaders met for two hours at the White House on Aug. 4. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama and pro-Israel leaders exchanged concerns about how each side distorts the other’s...

BERLIN (JTA) — Unknown vandals defaced a famous mural on remnants of the Berlin Wall with anti-Semitic graffiti. The attack comes during a week when several thousand Jewish visitors are participating in the first ever European Maccabi Games to be...

(JTA) — As thousands took part in protests Saturday night against violence and homophobia, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned against a wave of hatred “spreading throughout the land.” Speaking at a rally in Jerusalem — others were held in...

(JTA) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko praised the actions of a priest who saved Jews during the Holocaust, but who has not been recognized for it in Israel for his apparent sympathy for Nazi Germany. Poroshenko spoke in favor of Andrey Sheptytsky...

A view of Dodger Stadium on Opening Day, April 6, 2015. (Harry How/Getty Images) The Dodgers may never be as great as they were in Brooklyn, but now, at least, they’ve brought a bit of Brooklyn to them — in the form of hot dogs. Earlier this week,...

(JTA) — The State Department harshly condemned the deadly arson at a Palestinian village but stopped short of attributing it to Jewish extremists. The condemnation issued Friday was over an arson committed Thursday at two Palestinian homes near Nablus....