Jewish People

The remains of an Israeli Air Force pilot missing for 56 years were recovered in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) northeast of Tiberias on Tuesday, recovered among the wreckage of the aircraft. Lt. Yakir Mordechai...

The WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps gathered in Moscow October 28-31, 2018, for a Regional Meeting to participate in the WJC co-sponsored Second Moscow International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia and to engage...

This year, 3,381 women are running for their states legislatures; this is one thousand more than 20 years ago. On the national scene, 256 women appear as candidate for Senate and House. Among them...

In 1958, a one-time event was scheduled in Israel with the support of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. It was a heavily text-based, extraordinarily difficult “Chidon HaTanach,” or Bible Quiz, and was created as...

Thousands attended the funeral of Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay (Shas), who succumbed to cancer on Tuesday at the age of 64. Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef praised Azoulay as a great teacher and public...

Officer Dan Mead woke up on Saturday, Oct. 27, and put on his uniform, as he does every morning. He checked in at the station house and began his shift patrolling the streets of Pittsburgh with...

A pioneer of Israel’s “Start-Up Nation” culture, one of the Jewish world’s top educators and a founder of the women’s imaging medical field are among the seven recipients of the 2018 Sylvan Adams Nefesh...

We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Jewish Diaspora. While the anti-Semitic terrorist attack against a synagogue in Pittsburgh is a grave warning for American Jewry, the danger for Jews...

The Maccabi World Union (MWU) Executive has appointed Ido Aharoni as the organization’s Global Ambassador. Aharoni is a veteran of Israel’s foreign service where he spent his entire career, spanning almost three decades, in the...

In a greater attempt to be heard by Israel’s ruling establishment, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) held their annual General Assembly in Tel Aviv with the theme, “Israel and the Diaspora: ‘We...