Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — When ...

A prominent cantor was dismissed from her synagogue after publishing a column titled, “Why the increasing number of converts is a problem for Judaism.” BERLIN (JTA) – Jews in Germany have been shaken ...

This heartfelt work is a candid, absorbing memoir that explores how faith is shaped not only by belief, but by resistance, inheritance, and choice. Rather than presenting a straight line toward ...

JERUSALEM — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A Palestinian aroused suspicions and an Israeli soldier killed him. But then ...

And although most Jews share a common gene pool, they are becoming more diverse because any non-Jew who converts to Judaism will be recognized as being Jewish by all those rabbis who share a ...

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. (JTA) — During the pandemic, ...

Fred Cook, by his own admission, is a man in search of an identity. From his teenage years through his early 30s, he filled that void with neo-Nazism. But over the past decade, he has grown to fill it ...

Richie announced her engagement to music executive Elliot Grainge in April 2022. At that time, the two had been dating for about a year. Recently, Richie revealed that she’s made the decision to ...

BERLIN (JTA) – Jews in Germany have been shaken this summer by a diminutive cantor with a big voice. But not in the way one might think. True, Avitall Gerstetter has one powerful set of pipes, as ...