He was also the first military chief to speak Yiddish as a second language, and he loved surprising Jews with his skill. Powell, the former U.S. secretary of state who…

Parents for Peace works to win back over ones who have been radicalized by groups like ISIS and QAnon, demand for its service has never been higher. Listen Here

(JTA) — After Spain announced it would offer of citizenship to families of Jews it expelled more than 500 years ago, Mark Tafoya, a personal chef living in New York…

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Archives, libraries and museums can seem unlikely players in the fight against modern-day antisemitism, absorbed as they are in cataloguing and exhibiting the past.  But…

Serge Dedina is a surfer, environmentalist and mayor of Imperial Beach, a small working-class city on the California coast. He is also, if the fossil fuel industry is to be…

The British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran. Her family said on Saturday that there had been no court hearing, but…

For the children of Tuba, a Palestinian village in South Hebron Hills, attending school means walking more than ten kilometers with an armed IDF escort, to bypass an illegal settlement…

Just as it seemed Lebanon was marching towards a better political and economic future, simmering tensions surrounding the probe into the Beirut blast exploded In Lebanon, it’s easy to evoke…

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday urged countries to step up reunification for Afghans whose families remain in the country or who are displaced across the region, as the…

For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN chief said in his message released on Friday, marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17 October.  Describing current…