JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli reserve duty soldier was wounded and his Palestinian assailant was shot and killed in a stabbing attack in the West Bank.On Tuesday, the attacker exited his car at the Gush Etzion traffic junction in front of the Alon Shvut...

(JTA) — The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year.Some 1,268,095 people in 2015 visited the Anne Frank House, located at the site in Amsterdam where the young diarist hid from the Nazis with her family. That...

(JTA) — A French lawmaker and a French scholar published the “Diary of Anne Frank” online at the beginning of the new year.The two published their editions of the diary on Jan.1, when the current copyright expires, in a challenge to the foundation...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The shooter in the attack on a bar full of patrons in central Tel Aviv that killed two has been named by police as an Arab-Israeli man with a history of violence.The attacker was named as Nashat Melhem, 31, of Arara, a village in Wadi...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least two people were killed and five  seriously injured, in a shooting in the center of Tel Aviv.The shooter fled on foot after the attack on Friday afternoon at a pub next to the popular Dizengoff Center Mall, Israel’s Channel...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least three participants in a wedding where Jewish revelers were captured on video celebrating the deaths of members of a Palestinian family in a firebombing were set to be released from police detention.Among those who were to...

Schmidt (Max Greenfield), center, Nick (Jake Johnson), left, and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) in a scene from “New Girl,” Feb. 3, 2015. (FOX via Getty Images)Fans like to call “Seinfeld” one of the most-Jewish sitcoms of all time, even though it makes...

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, right, and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau attending a New Year’s ceremony at the national headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem, Sept. 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Two years ago, Israeli advocates for...

(JTA) — Britain’s Royal Mail announced it will issue a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler,” in March.It will be part of a set of six stamps honoring British humanitarians, the Jewish News website...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Women of the Wall group vowed to continue reading from the Torah in the women’s section of the Kotel in the wake of a report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised haredi Orthodox parties that it still would not be allowed.Army...

NEW YORK (JTA) – The Jewish Renewal movement reiterated its ban on Marc Gafni in the wake of a New York Times story about the troubled sexual past of the ex-Orthodox rabbi who is now a polyamorous spiritualist.“Marc Gafni is not a rabbi or spiritual...

NEW YORK (JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish teenager was attacked in a heavily Jewish New York City neighborhood less than 24 hours after a 60-year-old Jewish man was beaten and robbed there.The boy, 17, was punched in the face and knocked into the street in...