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'Antisemitism is anti-American': Senate holds hearing for antisemitism envoy

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun’s nomination as US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism sparks debate over his bipartisan approach.

 Yehuda Kaploun and Donald Trump.
An undated handout photo released by the Metropolitan Police shows Howard Phillips, who was jailed on Friday for assisting a foreign intelligence service.

UK Jewish man jailed for offering then-defense minister's information to Russian 'spies'

 Val Kilmer in "Top Secret!"

‘That’s Simchas Torah’: The Jewish Val Kilmer moment you might have missed

 A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015.

AI website 'Jewish Onliner' linked to team behind Yale Scholar's suspension


Shabbat microphones catching on among orthodox despite taboos

Microphones, like the issue of separation of the sexes during prayers, had long been one of the dividing lines between orthodox and conservative congregations.

A Shabbat talk in a Tel Aviv Synagogue

The Begin phenomenon

The question arises whether Jewish values alone are sufficient for leadership of a Jewish state.

THEN-ISRAELI Major General Ariel Sharon is photographed with Likud party leader Menachem Begin and Major General Avraham Yoffe in the Sinai Peninsula in 1977.

Republicans blast White House for 'imperiled' Israel ties, pledge improved relations

Ted Cruz: “The nation of Israel has never faced greater threats, the American alliance with Israel has never been more imperiled right now today than it is with this administration”

Las Vegas gaming tycoon and Israel Hayom proprietor Sheldon Adelson

Ukrainian parliament recognizes militia that collaborated with Nazis

The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned Ukraine’s recognition of the group as well as a second bill that equated communist and Nazi crimes.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko pays visit to Babi Yar, Kiev

KKL, B’nai B’rith to honor memory of Greek fighting Rabbi

Moshe Shimon Pessach saved nearly three quarters of his community by hiding them in neighboring villages.

Rabbi Moshe Shimon Pessach

If you marry a Jew, you're one of us

Unbeknownst to even keen observers of Jewish life, about half of those who identify as Jews but were not born Jewish never underwent formal rabbinic conversion.

Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky (R) sit in the audience at the Robin Hood Foundation Benefit at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York

Limmud FSU marks Auschwitz liberation with emotional exhibition

Yad Vashem's exhibition, "Private Tolkatchev at the Gates of Hell," was one of the main attractions at this year's Limmud FSU conference in New York.

From left: Ron Meier, executive director of the American Society for Yad Vashem; Matthew Bronfman, Chairman of Limmud  FSU; Chaim Chesler, a member of the leadership representing the Claims Conference; and Izzy Tapoochi, president of Israel Bonds

JBrick: Lego takes a nontraditional, Jewish twist

Yitzy Kasowitz introduces a Jewish twist to the traditional Lego set.

Jewish Lego

Yad Vashem sued over Schindler documents

Heir of Schindler’s wife claims museum snuck the documents out of Germany without permission.

Oskar Schindler as portrayed by Liam Neeson in Schindler's List

Australian rabbinate undergoes shakeup in wake of sex scandal

Jewish paper fires journalist who exposed senior rabbi.

Manny Waks