There was something of a motivational speaker about President Donald Trump as he welcomed Mahmoud Abbas, the gerontocrat at the helm of the Palestinian Authority for the last 12 years, to the White … more

On Shabbos, the Progressive Party in Norway, the smaller of two parties within the ruling government coalition (with 29 of 169 parliament seats), announced … more

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli government ministers this week approved a bill that would officially define Israel as a Jewish state. The legislation unanimously passed the Ministerial Committee … more

Ten days before Donald Trump was inaugurated, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked visited the settlement in Hebron, where several hundred Jews are ensconced in a city of 150,000 … more

PARIS — French Jews may have voted en masse for Emmanuel Macron in the final round of France’s presidential elections, but that doesn’t make him their dream president. … more

Bonfires will light up the night this motzei Shabbos and on Sunday as Jewish communities everywhere celebrate Lag B’Omer. In the parking lot of Far Rockaway’s White Shul, the blaze will … more

An open road on a beautiful day, with your kids in the back seat, maybe even a picnic lunch; what could be more perfect? I will always wonder what Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, with her four … more

The beginning of our parasha, Emor, focuses on a variety of laws that pertain solely to the kohanim. From a purely juridical perspective, they have little to do with the majority of the Jewish … more

Rabbi Zvi Romm of the Lower East Side’s Bialystoker Synagogue this week distributed the following open letter to David Garza, executive director of the Henry Street Settlement, another LES … more

One of the questions which gets much emphasis nowadays is whether the Torah discriminates against kohanim who have some kind of deformity, blemish, or disability. This is an outcome of looking at the … more