WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Joseph Biden defended the Iran nuclear deal in a call with the Jewish community that drew a thousand listeners. Biden, considered the closest Obama administration official to then organized Jewish community, said Monday...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Safed rabbi accused of sexually assaulting 10 women has been identified as Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, the founder of a yeshiva there. Sheinberg, 46, who headed the Orot HaAri yeshiva he founded in 1999, is married with eight children....

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to conduct an inquiry into “possible action” against Israeli soccer fans who rioted in Belgium. In a statement released Friday, Netanyahu condemned “a small group of Beitar Jerusalem...

(JTA) — Top Hamas officials reportedly met with senior Saudi leaders Friday, the first such meeting in years. The meeting on Friday included Khaled Meshaal, the political head of the Palestinian Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, and Saudi...

NEW YORK (JTA) – When I was 24, an Orthodox matchmaker tried to set me up on a date with a man older than my parents. When I objected, she told me, “Stop being so picky. Not many guys are willing to consider a black girl.” As an African-American...

A sampling of shoe designer Kobi Levi’s creations, clockwise, from left: Watermelon, Miao, Banana and the Madonna-inspired Blond Ambition. (Courtesy of Kobi Levi) TEL AVIV (JTA) – Shoe designer Kobi Levi was working in his design studio in 2011 when...

Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, seen at the U.S. Capitol building in 2014, made a cogent argument in his op-ed in The Washington Post Wednesday. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images) Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, D.C., outlined Israel’s...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in Jerusalem about the framework agreement with Iran, April 12, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/Getty Images) TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted the accord between Iran and world...

10:05 AM EDT — Reactions to the Iran nuclear deal are spilling into my inbox and all over my Twitter feed. They range from very likely to approve (Nancy Pelosi) to sharp disapproval (Marco Rubio), but the bulk, from Democrats and Republicans as well...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Iran and world powers including the United States have reportedly reached a final agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program. Diplomats from the six countries negotiating the accord — the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany,...

The deadly shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston provided a focal point for a terror attack simulation for national Jewish leaders.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (JTA) – When the Department of Homeland Security convened a terror...

NEW YORK (JTA) – White supremacists have committed about 83 percent of extremist-related murders in the United States in the last decade, according to a new Anti-Defamation League report. The report, released Monday, also found that most of those murders...