Dating back to the International Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, many of the human-rights organizations that the public turns to for objective data have increasingly … more

What is our duty to those confined in places where the coronavirus crisis is a threat? Efforts to protect residents of facilities that serve the elderly have gained a great deal of attention. Yet … more

Israel on Sunday began easing some of the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, making allowances for prayer quorums and allowing many businesses to reopen. The … more

Joe Biden welcomed the endorsement of J Street on Friday. “I’m honored to have earned J Street’s first-ever presidential endorsement,” the former vice … more

Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz has told associates over the weekend that he and incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are “on the brink” of a unity deal, … more

Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Noach Dear was niftar on Sunday morning. The 66-year-old jurist, who was a member of the New York City Council from 1983 to 2001, was a victim of the coronavirus, … more

Prayer at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City will be banned during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Muslim clerics said on … more

As of Tuesday morning, 11,868 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus, which has so far killed 118 people in the country. According to the country’s Health Ministry, 181 patients are … more

After being granted a 48-hour extension of his mandate to form a government late Monday night, unity talks resumed between Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz and incumbent Israeli Prime Minister … more

JERUSALEM — Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who served as Israel’s chief Sephardic rabbi for a decade beginning in 1993, was remembered as “a teacher for all Jewish communities in … more