Category: Jewish

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli was instructed on Tuesday to issue a formal apology to leaders of the U.K. Jewish community for not consulting with them before inviting far-right British agitator Tommy Robinson to Israel on an official…

VIENNA – Work began to restore Vienna’s oldest synagogue, the Stadttempel, on Friday. To mark the beginning of the project, renowned Austrian visual artist Gottfried Helnwein unveiled a presentation featuring photographs of children from the…

As a social and cultural historian of the Jews, with a special interest in Jewish women, it was only natural that Shulamit Magnus be drawn to the plight of agunot – literally “chained women” who, under rabbinic law, are stuck in their marriages…

Biblical scholars started to cast a critical gaze on the Old Testament, and on their composition, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early on, European researchers and scholars were drawn to a puzzling story in 2 Kings 22: the exploits of King…

Since announcing a cease-fire with Hamas last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has granted an interview to exactly one international media outlet: CBS News. On Tuesday morning, he sat across from the network’s morning show co-host Tony…

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson on Thursday visited Israel’s southern border with Gaza, where he was warned by his host, a Likud cabinet minister, that if the United Kingdom did not address the threat of radical Islam more forcefully,…

As synagogues across New York prepared on Sunday to celebrate the final days of Sukkot and of Simchat Torah, protesters gathered outside Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE), a historic Reform synagogue in Park Slope, to demonstrate against a scheduled…