(JTA) — The Washington, D.C., synagogue whose longtime rabbi was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for voyeurism has hired a part-time replacement on an interim basis. Rabbi Avidan Milevsky will begin work on July 27, Kesher Israel’s president announced...

(JTA) — A Jewish-Russian tech billionaire is teaming up with the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking to launch an unprecedented search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Yuri Milner, an investor in tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Spotify,...

(JTA) — A house where a Jewish family hid to escape the Holocaust has been declared a Polish national monument. The house remained unrecognized as a Jewish hideout for 70 years, according to Reuters. It belonged to two families who shared a farm and...

Amy Winehouse at her home in Camden, London in 2004. (Mark Okoh/Contemporary Jewish Museum) (JTA)—The late Jewish singer Amy Winehouse, a documentary film about whom is currently in theaters nationwide, is also the subject of two art exhibitions at...

Amy Schumer speaking about her film “Trainwreck” at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, 2015, in New York. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images) (JTA) — Comedian Amy Schumer’s childhood rabbi has dished up a few tasty, albeit kosher, tidbits about...

Actress Anne Heche and Harvey Pekar at an afterparty for the L.A. premiere of “American Splendor” in 2003. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty) (JTA) — In the 1960s, the corner of Coventry Road and Euclid Heights Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, an eastern...

(JTA) — Prominent Brazilian Holocaust survivor and longtime Jewish activist Aleksander Laks died at age 88. Laks died Tuesday of a lung infection, according to Brazilian news website Surgiu. Born in Poland in 1926, Laks was held in the Lodz ghetto,...

Vice President Joe Biden delivering remarks at the Good Jobs Green Jobs National Conference in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2015. This week he beseeched about a thousand Jewish leaders in a phone call on the Iran nuclear deal. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)...

Theodore Bikel at the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards in New York City, May 23, 2010. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) (JTA) — Theodore Bikel, an actor and folk singer who was recognized in 1997 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Foundation...

President Barack Obama speaking during the 116th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 21, 2015. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) If you still have burning questions...

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to the crowd at the Phoenix Convention Center, July 18, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Charlie Leight/Getty Images) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has never been shy about calling himself a socialist, a term that...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The foreign ministers of the European Union released a statement on the Middle East peace process in which it called on Israel to halt settlements and policies including “forced transfer.” The statement was released Monday at...