(JTA) — Pop star Lady Gaga accepted an award from the Anti-Defamation League on behalf of her Born This Way Foundation. On Thursday, the ADL announced that Gaga had received its Making a Difference award for “work championing positive social change.”...

(JTA) — Gaza’s economy, stifled by the highest unemployment rate in the world, blockades, poor governance and a series of military conflicts, is headed towards a “collapse,” a new report by the World Bank says. “The report estimates that Gaza’s...

Adas Israel Congregation’s Rabbi Gil Steinlauf greets President Obama on Friday, May 22. (Ron Sachs) WASHINGTON (JTA) — Defending Jews from anti-Semitism and defending Palestinian rights stem from the same value system, President Barack Obama told...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Dutch restaurant owners cited their gastronomical focus in explaining why they had replaced Israel with Palestine in a map of the Middle East they had printed. The owners of Le Souq, a restaurant based in Rotterdam that specializes...

ZURICH, Switzerland (JTA) — Swiss government officials defended their decision to fund an exhibition by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that purports to expose alleged Israeli war crimes. Breaking the Silence is scheduled to put on the exhibition...

For Menahem Orenstein, this photo of his friend David Beck in a 1962 Pontiac Bonneville is all he has left of their correspondence. (Courtesy of Menahem Orenstein) The Seeking Kin column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. (JTA) –...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Avigdor Liberman, Israel’s former foreign minister, called supporters of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict “autistic.” Liberman, who heads the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, made his remarks Thursday...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States will ensure that any text coming out of a conference reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meets Israel’s interests, the White House said. Suggestions to the contrary are “offensive,” the White House...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Union for Reform Judaism will host a forum for presidential candidates at its biennial. Chuck Todd of NBC’s “Meet the Press” will interview candidates one on one at the Nov. 7 event in Orlando, Fla., URJ said in a release...

BERLIN (JTA) — Two Jewish experts have been appointed belatedly to a government expert panel on anti-Semitism, after protests by Jewish groups. Germany’s Interior Ministry that it had appointed psychologist Marina Chernivsky and historian Andreas...

(JTA) — The details on hundreds of letters, books, magazine articles, reports and other materials found in Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden’s secret compound in Pakistan were declassified and released by the Obama administration. Among the documents...

Pope Francis greeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as the pope leaves St. Peter’s Square at the end of a canonization ceremony in Vatican City, May 17, 2015. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (JTA) – When considering the Vatican’s...