A natural spring in the heart of the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was a vital source of water for the ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

As the Trump administration escalates its campaign against international students and Palestinian activists, Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly refuting the idea that the president’s efforts ...

The Jewish community of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, was forced to observe Passover under the sound of sirens and the threat of deadly missile attacks. A nighttime curfew prevented some ...

Ben Kamon, her husband, and their four young children moved from the West Bank settlement of Eli to the southern community of ...

The colonies were overwhelmingly Christian, with Jews representing just one out of every 1,000 colonists and 0.1 percent of the population. When Congress issued the call for prayer and fasting ...

JTA — A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I am Jewish ...

In the past week Jewish community members at Brown, Harvard, Georgetown and more have condemned the Trump administration’s actions on universities. Dozens of rabbis and cantors who graduated ...

By imploring us to personally imagine ourselves in the position of another, we are forced to break down the barriers that ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing. The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s ...

According to sources, Nachshon ben Aminadav, the leader of the tribe of Yehuda, jumped into the water in a literal leap of faith, at which point the sea miraculously split, and the Jewish people ...