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BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Floridians can now stand with Israel even while stuck in traffic. A graphic designer from Boca Raton has come up with the winning design in a contest...

A group of U.S. senators is pushing for a fourfold increase in security funding for Jewish and other nonprofit institutions. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Gary Peters (D-Mich.),...

BY PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — The incident in 1993 lasted only about 20 seconds, but Ilana Kattan says the time President Bill Clinton stopped her hair from burning during a White...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic Party centrists with solid Israel bona fides defeated progressives as the chairs of two key House committees, succeeding pro-Israel stalwarts Eliot Engel and Nita...

BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., removed from her Twitter feed a retweet that said “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a phrase that...

(JTA) — Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions,...

BY SHIRA HANAU (JTA) — After several challenges to pandemic-induced restrictions on houses of worship citing religious liberty, an Orthodox Jewish advocacy group is taking its case to the U.S. Supreme...

(JTA) — The number of antisemitic hate crimes in the United States increased significantly in 2019, according to the FBI, in a year that saw three lethal attacks against...

JNS.org – While Joe Biden has been projected as the next president of the United States, control of the US Senate is almost just as important due to the...

Police in Lexington, Kentucky, are investigating the vandalism of a menorah and sign at Chabad at the University of Kentucky Jewish Student Center. This is the fourth time that...