(JTA) — Israeli police arrested a prominent rabbi trying to leave the country amid accusations that he committed rape and other sex crimes. The rabbi was arrested Thursday night at Ben Gurion Airport based on a complaint to police by a woman who claimed...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (unseen) in Berlin, Germany on June 3, 2015. (Adam Berry/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (JTA) – A nuclear deal between Iran and the major world powers...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Forty members of a Hamas terror cell said to be planning an attack in the West Bank were arrested. The arrests took place over the past several months, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said Wednesday in a statement. The Israel...

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv protesting the Israeli government’s support for a deal that would give two energy companies control over the development of most of Israel’s offshore gas deposits, June 27, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90) (JTA) – Israeli consumers...

Israeli rescuers arrived in Haiti on the evening of Jan. 15, 2010, hours after Obama spoke. Photo from Jan. 17. (IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90) It’s a compelling hero-takes-the-fall narrative: Valiant little country takes the lead in rescuing a battered...

Supporters of same-sex marriage celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in San Francisco, June 26, 2015. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) BOSTON (JTA) — Four years ago, I stood under a chuppah with the woman I was about to marry overlooking a valley...

BERLIN (JTA) — For the first time in 29 years, Berlin’s Jewish community will not hold its popular Jewish Culture Days festival, the community’s board of directors announced. According to the Jewish community board’s official statement, issued...

A man wears a kippa as he takes part in a silent march to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms on November 9, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) NEW YORK (JTA) – Anti-Semitic attitudes fell in two countries...

Khameini and AIPAC are seen as must-convince skeptics for their respective sides in the talks about Iran’s nuclear program.(Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (JTA) — In nuclear talks between Iran and the major powers, it’s deadline time, and...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A female Israeli soldier was seriously injured when a Palestinian woman stabbed her at a checkpoint on the road to Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem. The Palestinian woman, 20, approached the checkpoint at the Rachel Crossing and began...

Pope Francis and Mahmoud Abbas, shown here in Ramallah, West Bank on May 25, 2014, signed a treaty on Friday. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO via Getty Images) (JTA) — The Vatican signed a treaty with the “State of Palestine,” in hopes of advancing a two-state...

Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate outside the Supreme Court on June 26. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (JTA) – How often do you get the opportunity to pack “109 years,” #LoveWins and the colors of the rainbow into 140 characters? That’s...