TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that concessions to Iran are increasing as it approaches the deadline for its nuclear talks with world powers. Netanyahu referred to the June 30 deadline addressing the 163rd Pilots Course...

(JTA) — The Moroccan government plans to rehabilitate the ancient Jewish quarter of Marrakesh. The Jewish quarter renovation, estimated to cost $20 million, is part of a larger $32 million city rehabilitation effort jointly funded by Morocco’s housing...

ATHENS, Greece (JTA) – Jewish groups have criticized a Greek lawmaker who posted a picture of the gates of Auschwitz with a pro-Europe slogan, accusing him of trivializing the Holocaust. Member of Parliament Dimitris Kammenos of the Independent Greeks...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Police arrested nine Israeli Druze over two attacks on ambulances carrying wounded Syrians to Israeli hospitals, which left one Syrian dead. The arrests Wednesday included five people from the village of Majdal Shams in the...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Three teens are being charged with hate crimes after allegedly throwing a rock at a kippah-wearing Jewish man in New York and threatening to kill him. The teens threw the rock at the Staten Island man a few blocks from an Orthodox synagogue...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Both Israel’s military and Palestinian armed groups committed “serious violations” of international humanitarian and human rights law during last summer’s conflict, which in some cases may amount to war crimes, a United Nations...

(JTA) — The South Carolina church shooter said in a racial manifesto that the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity.” Dylann Roof, who entered a Charleston, South Carolina church and killed nine black...

Jon Stewart on stage at Comedy Central’s Night Of Too Many Stars at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on February 28, 2015. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Comedy Central) As Jon Stewart said Thursday night, his job for the past 16 years has been...

The indefatigable web comic Jessie Kahnweiler, of “Dude, Where’s My Chutzpah?” and “Meet My Rapist” fame, is back with a new video, this one highlighting white privilege — the idea that whites can get away with doing something that would...

(JTA) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to “take concrete and immediate steps” to “protect and prevent the killing and maiming of children, and to respect the special protections afforded to schools and hospitals.”...

Zvia Mordechai, standing, left, and Marlene Alvez, standing, center, with fellow teachers and students in the 1990s at Beersheba’s Niv School for the Deaf. (Courtesy of Zvia Mordechai) The “Seeking Kin” column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives...

(JTA) — Management at a Belgian Jewish Orthodox school threatened to take “unpleasant steps” against a pupils’ mother because she did not dress modestly enough. The threat came in a letter that management of the Jesode Hatora — Beth Jacob School...