A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations is condemning the Anti-Defamation League for what it calls “Islamophobic and racist” attacks on New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. In a statement ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday the appointment of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the U.S. ambassador to Israel, a pivotal role in strengthening ties between the two allied ...

(JTA) — We were sharing a pastrami sandwich and pickles at the Los Angeles landmark Canter’s Deli. I was 24. She was nearly 50 years older, with a piercing voice as loud as her flaming red wig. Her ...

Actress Patricia Heaton is encouraging non-Jews to hang a mezuzah on the front doors of their homes. The Catholic sitcom star — most famous for her roles on The Middle and Everybody Loves Raymond in ...

More than a week after Steve Bannon made a straight-armed gesture resembling a Nazi salute, the former adviser to President Donald Trump headlined a dinner for Orthodox pro-MAGA activists, using the ...

Before he was given access to insider information about the United States cabinet’s most secretive war plans, Jeffrey Goldberg spent some of the early years of his journalism career at the Forward. As ...

Every year when we sit down for the Passover Seders, we end with the words “Next year in Jerusalem.” This phrase was added to the Haggadah during the 14th century, and was used orally for centuries ...

More than a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, most American Jews are broadly supportive of Israel but harshly critical of its leadership and prosecution of the war on Gaza, according to an Election ...

Ari Hoffman is a contributing columnist for the Forward, where he writes about politics and culture. He is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University, and has a doctorate in English ...

For reasons both political and cultural, it’s a worrying moment in history when New York City dedicates valuable gallery space to pale echoes of exhibits from German-speaking museums. That is ...

Actress Maya Rudolph will be one of three celebrities featured in a PBS documentary show that traces the ancestry of pop culture personalities, uncovering familial histories they themselves are not ...

The most prominent Jewish character on “Sex and the City,” a TV show about wealthy New York professional women, appears in the penultimate season of the hit HBO show. In an episode that appeared in ...