Before the Second World War, Europe was home to 9.5 million Jews. Now, with many of the remaining 1.5 million Jews abandoning the continent, the European Commission is pledging that Jewish life there … more

French President Emmanuel Macron last week inaugurated the first permanent museum dedicated to Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army who was wrongly convicted because of anti-Semitism, … more

In the tiny Samaritan village of Kfar Luza on Mount Gerizim, some 37 miles north of Jerusalem, the gregarious 78-year-old Samaritan priest Husney Wasef Cohen welcomes us into his sukkah. While … more

In researching some history for the intro to this column, I came across Washington’s 1789 proclamation for the first Thanksgiving in which he mentioned the “peaceable and rational … more

They came from far and near, like children returning home. Single file, the thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries each passed through rows of tombstones … more

Chanting “Am Yisrael Chai” — the Jewish people live — hundreds of students at George Washington University marched from the building that houses the Tau Kappa Epsilon … more

It’s been almost a year since US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman completed his service. In an interview with JNS, Friedman — who recently joined former Treasury Secretary Steven … more

While Jews have been persecuted over the centuries more than perhaps any other people, they can take at least cold comfort in the fact that their enemies almost always rely on outright lies to … more

This is the moment that so many travelers — and Israel’s tourism industry — have been waiting for since the pandemic shut out much of foreign travel through Ben-Gurion International … more

A New York Times reporter and photographer get into a car. They travel across one of the world’s happiest countries — and find only anger, alienation and regret. If that … more