The life of Abraham Zacuto joins two strands of Sephardic history: persecution and exile, and the transmission of knowledge, texts and technologies across borders.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 300-meter (984-foot) section of Jerusalem’s ancient Lower Aqueduct, providing another window into how engineers about 2,000 years ago ensured that the city ...

BOSTON — In the middle of a conversation about her future children, it dawned on Leah Robbins that the school she imagined for them did not exist. Robbins envisioned a Jewish school where children ...

Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and cultivate a future.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing increasing pressure from some on the leftmost flank of his voting coalition, and an ICE shooting Thursday led democratic socialist allies to add their ...

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed was asked multiple times by a debate moderator on Thursday which country he considers a bigger threat to the U.S.: Iran or Israel. Each time, he parried. “That’s a ...

The FBI accused an 18-year-old man of buying an AK-47 assault rifle with plans to commit a mass shooting in support of ISIS at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest indoor ...

Jon Ossoff and Republican challenger Rep. Mike Collins clashed over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, U.S. weapons sales to Israel and the war in Iran during Thursday’s debate in Georgia’s closely watched ...

The head of the Jewish Greens said she may leave the Green Party of England and Wales after it adopted a policy that defines Zionism as racism and calls for a single democratic state “in all of ...

Nosrat, a first-generation Iranian American raised by a Muslim mother and Baha’i father, recently learned her paternal ancestors were Jewish.

Some nonprofits seem to have lost sight of the difference between fair compensation and excessive compensation.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters on Wednesday night overran a vigil marking Oct. 7 attended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The demonstrators swamped the area of Union Square Park that ...