WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rabbi Barry Freundel was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for videotaping dozens of nude women at a ritual bath. “You repeatedly and secretly violated the trust your victims had in you, and you abused your power,” Senior...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama will address a Washington congregation to mark Jewish American Heritage Month. White House spokesman Eric Schultz, announcing the president’s schedule for next week, said that next Friday, May 22, Obama would...

(JTA)— A Jewish World War I veteran will be posthumously awarded the nation’s highest military honor 97 years after his heroic actions against the Germans. The White House announced Thursday that Sgt. William Shemin, who is Jewish and died in 1973,...

(JTA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the signing of a final agreement between Iran and world powers on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is very likely. Zariff made the statement in an interview that Der Spiegel published...

(JTA) – French lawmakers passed a law requiring “religious neutrality” in all educational institutions for children under the age of 6. Proposed in a bill by the Radical Party of the Left, the law passed Wednesday states that all pedagogical institution...

The series finale of the acclaimed show “Mad Men” airs this Sunday night. (AMC) AMC’s ad campaign for the second half of the final season of “Mad Men” centered on the phrase “The End of an Era.” The clever double meaning of the phrase was...

MONTREAL (JTA)—Canada’s professional football league has fined a player for posting anti-Semitic material on his Twitter account. The Canadian Football League (CFL) fined U.S.-born Khalif Mitchell, a defensive lineman for the Montreal Alouettes, an...

Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of the Israeli parliament, addressing the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, May 30, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90) JERUSALEM (JTA) — Earlier this week, politicians, journalists, diplomats, educators and...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new coalition government was approved and sworn in. Netanyahu was continuously heckled as he introduced his new Cabinet to a Thursday night session of Knesset. Several Knesset members were removed...

Joyce Dubensky, CEO of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, was seriously injured in the May 12 Amtrak derailment. (Tannenbaum Center website) NEW YORK (JTA) — Joyce Dubensky, a veteran Jewish community professional and now CEO...

(Youtube) Jewish casino magnate and political mega-donor Sheldon Adelson is now the proud owner of a painting by a reclusive artist whose works are rarely seen in public – and happens to be a former U.S. president. The New York Times has reported that...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The biennial Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism issued statements recommending steps for governments and websites to reduce cyber hate, and for European governments to reduce anti-Semitism. “Given the pervasive, expansive...