Several nominees for President Joe Biden’s national security team said on Tuesday that the United States isn’t yet ready to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint … more

Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisers, many of them Jewish. Biden’s choices reflect a diverse cross-section of … more

If we are looking for a passage that best speaks to the current American moment — a shaken American polity and still threatening pandemic — look no further than George Washington’s … more

A lengthy, threatening note slipped into a package of Five Towns Jewish Times newspapers was left on the doorstep of Rabbi Kenneth Hain’s Lawrence home last Friday. It called Rabbi Hain a kapo … more

Jewish and pro-Israel groups expressed condolences over the loss of Sheldon Adelson, perhaps the most prolific individual donor to a wide range of Jewish and Israeli causes, who died on Jan. 11 at … more

As the repercussions of the deadly Jan. 6 mob invasion of the US Capitol continue to reverberate across the country and beyond, like most Americans, many in the Jewish community looked on with shock … more

I feel deep sorrow at the passing of a wonderful friend, and wonderful person, the late Sheldon Adelson. With a broken heart, in the name of my wife, Sara, on my own behalf and in the name of many … more

President Joe Biden, in his inaugural address on Wednesday, told a strife-ridden nation that “we must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural vs. urban, conservative vs. … more

Our photographer spotted Jonathan and Esther Pollard as they strolled holding hands on Agripas St. in Jerusalem, near the Machane Yehuda shuk.                 … more

Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer, who for 38 years has been the spiritual leader of the Young Israel of West Hempstead, was niftar on erev Shabbat, Jan. 8, at age 74. “He made us all feel better … more