Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stepping off his campaign bus an event with United Steelworkers Local 310L in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 26, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)(JTA) – President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet...

David Blatt looking on as his Cleveland Cavaliers played the Boston Celtics at the TD Garden in Boston, Dec. 15, 2015. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)It’s a fact that has been swirling around the Internet since last Friday: By the numbers, former Cleveland...

(JTA) — Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, was reelected for a third term.Kantor, a 62-year-old aerospace scientist-turned-businessman who was born in Russia, was reelected unanimously on Wednesday during the organization’s...

Jewish teens planting trees in a Tu b’Shvat event organized by the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael in Israel’s Ben Shemen forest, Feb. 6, 2012. (Omer Miron/Flash 90)JERUSALEM (JTA) – The rabbinic tract Midrash Kohelet Raba tells us that when God created...

(JTA) — An Iranian couple was arrested while trying to board a British Airways flight in India because they were carrying forged Israeli passports.The couple, who tried to board the flight on Thursday at Chennai Airport, also carried their original...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States is participating in a Moroccan government conference on protecting minorities, including Jews,  in Muslim lands.Arsalan Suleman, the State Department’s envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and Knox...

Israeli settlers recording a video and arguing with a member of Breaking the Silence group in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 10, 2015. (Garrett Mills/Flash90)(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his defense minister’s decision...

Rafi Daugherty, with his daughter, Ettie (Kathryn Mathis)(JTA) — When Rafi Daugherty went to the hospital for the birth of his first child, he posted a sign on the delivery room door.“I am a single transgender man having my first baby,” it read....

Children playing in the streets of the settlement of Gevaot, Sept. 2, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)Are you looking for a unique Airbnb experience?If you’ve already rented the tree house in the Nicaraguan Jungle, the castle in Scotland, the life-sized...

Canadian Jewish billionaire Hershey Friedman, who made his fortune in the packaging industry, owns America’s largest kosher meat company and is a major supporter of Orthodox causes. (Nate Lavey)NEW YORK (JTA) – When Orthodox Jewish billionaire Hershey...

Jonathan Pollard, left, arriving at a federal courthouse in New York with his wife, Esther, to check in at a probation office just hours after being released from prison, Nov. 20, 2015. (Ilana Gold/WCBS-TV via AP Images)(JTA) — Freed spy-for-Israel...

Dan Shapiro being sworn in as the 19th United States Ambassador to Israel, Julu 8, 2015. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)(JTA) — A former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro as a “little...