The FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland after Swiss police on Wednesday raided a Zurich hotel to detain top FIFA football officials as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption. (Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images) Israelis were expecting some big...

(JTA) — Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, will step down next month as the special Middle East peace envoy of the Quartet group representing the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. Blair has occupied the post...

Jewish and Arab young men enjoy swimming in a mountain spring outside of Jerusalem, on a hot day, May 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) (JTA) — A record-breaking heat wave in Israel has sparked forest fires, caused flight delays and prompted a sharp...

(JTA) — Rolf Bloch, a former leader of Swiss Jews and chocolate factory owner, died at the age of 84. Bloch, who was a key figure during negotiations in the 1990s for compensation from the Swiss government for Holocaust assets, died this week and will...

(JTA) — Rabbi Byron Sherwin, a Jewish scholar and ethicist who served on the faculty of Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership for more than 40 years, has died. Sherwin died on May 22 following a long illness at the age of...

(JTA) — British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis called on the Jewish community to report allegations of sexual abuse “without delay.” The statement was issued on Wednesday by the Office of the Chief Rabbi in the wake of the conviction last week of a...

NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued a warning about an increase in cases of pertussis, or the “whooping cough,” in the Orthodox communities of Williamsburg and Borough Park, Brooklyn. The city’s...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a rally at Yeshiva Shaare Torah in Brooklyn in support of the Parental Choice in Education Act, May 17, 2015. (NYS Governor’s Office/Kevin P. Coughlin) NEW YORK (JTA) – When Rhode Island adopted an education tax...

Israelis lit candles in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on July 6, 2014 to mourn the death of three teenagers who were abducted and murdered in the West Bank. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) This piece was written by Iris and Ori Ifrach, Rachelli and Avi Fraenkel,...

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – Poland’s ombudsman has reiterated her request to the country’s Constitutional Tribunal to make kosher slaughter legal only for local consumption. Irena Lipowicz filed her request last year with the tribunal, asking it to make...

(JTA) — A federal judge has ordered the opening of grand jury testimony in the 1950 case of convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of New York last week ordered the unsealing of the testimony of Ethel Rosenberg’s...

(JTA)— Jewish senator Bernie Sanders is set to formally announce his presidential campaign. Sanders, 73, who was born in Brooklyn to Polish immigrant parents, will officially launch his 2016 campaign at an event starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday in Burlington,...