(JTA) — A Boston-area rabbi pleaded not guilty to charges that he stole from his temple to pay off a man who was blackmailing him for an alleged affair with a teenage male. Rabbi Barry Starr, 65, who resigned last year from Temple Israel in Sharon,...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 1 million people in Israel and around the world are participating in Unity Day events, marking one year since the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teenagers. Events were scheduled to take place in Jewish communities in...

NEW YORK (JTA) —Another Jewish social service agency has replaced FEGS as New York City’s largest social service group. The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, or JBFCS, is taking over $75 million worth of government and other contracts formerly...

Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt speaks to media before Game Four of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Atlanta Hawks on May 26, 2015 in Cleveland. (Jason Miller/Getty Images) After the last game of an impressive series sweep of the Atlanta...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will visit Israel — the first by a sitting Indian head of state. The visit was announced Sunday during a news conference with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, India’s media reported. No dates...

(JTA) — An African-American bus driver for a haredi Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn filed a $2 million lawsuit against the school alleging discrimination. The lawsuit by Willis Baker against the United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park was filed recently...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) – The Dutch government issued a travel warning that cautions travelers against violent Jewish settlers. The travel warning was placed online last month on the website of the Dutch central government for the Palestinian...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rocket sirens wailed across Israel, part if an annual nationwide preparedness drill. The sirens on Tuesday morning also were broadcast on television and radio. Civilians were told to head to their bomb shelters and schoolchildren took...

NEW YORK (JTA) — A prominent Brooklyn rabbi who left the clergy world last year has taken a leadership post at a major cultural and community center in New York. Andy Bachman, the spiritual leader at Congregation Beth Elohim in the Park Slope neighborhood...

(JTA) — Sheldon Adelson will host a private meeting in Las Vegas of Jewish philanthropists and organizations aiming to counter rising anti-Israel activity on college campuses. The meeting to brainstorm and fund strategies will be held this weekend at...

(JTA) — Opening statements began in a Rhode Island legal battle pitting America’s oldest congregation against the congregation that worships in America’s oldest synagogue structure. The trial between Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American serving in the Israeli army was sentenced to military jail for bringing non-kosher sandwiches to his base and offering them to fellow soldiers. The 11-day sentence was reduced, however, to missing a weekend furlough after...