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The White House said Monday it has evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is preparing to initiate another chemical weapons attack against civilians.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and international negotiations adviser Jason Greenblatt will travel to Jerusalem and Ramallah this week to discuss the next phase in renewed U.S.-led peace efforts in the region, a White House official said Sunday.

The source of classified intelligence shared by President Donald Trump with Russian government officials in May was acquired by Israel in a hacking operation against Islamic State computers, The New York Times reported this week.

After more than five years in the works, the U.S. Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the USS Gabrielle Giffords, has been commissioned.

The source of classified intelligence shared by President Donald Trump with Russian government officials in May was acquired by Israel in a hacking operation against Islamic State computers, The New York Times reported Monday.

Suppose you are a strong advocate of women’s rights, LGBT rights, healthcare for all and other social issues. You call yourself a liberal or a moderate. Odds are that you vote Democratic. You’re also passionately Zionistic — Israel is a big part of who you are.

Forty-thousand people assembled Sunday on the streets of New York City for the 53rd annual Celebrate Israel Parade, one of the world’s largest pro-Israel gatherings.

Right-wing extremists have been responsible for plotting at least 150 acts of terror in the United States over the past 25 years, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

At least 22 people were killed and as many as 59 were injured Monday in a suicide bombing during an Ariana Grande concert in the U.K.’s Manchester Arena.

About 20 veterans commit suicide across the U.S. each day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. An organization providing spiritual healing, suicide prevention and peer support programming for veterans believes Israel is part of the solution.

The head of an international anti-Semitism watchdog organization is calling on reportedly departing White House adviser Sebastian Gorka to renounce the ideology behind a controversial Hungarian group he is associated with, ahead of Gorka's planned public appearance in New York City.

Six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire may soon be able to add another skill to his impressive resume: Hebrew. The 34-year-old basketball player, who moved to Israel after signing a two-year deal with the Israeli basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem in August, is now learning the aleph-bet, the Hebrew alphabet.

In a somber, conventional 15-minute speech, President Donald Trump commemorated the Holocaust on April 25 in Washington by praising the survivors of the genocide of 6 million Jews and pledging to stand against anti-Semitism.

WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Trump administration last week endorsed a narrative long promoted by critics of the Iran nuclear deal: It’s North Korea all over again.

(JTA) -- Until recently, the Ruderman Family Foundation helped pioneer an issue within the Jewish community -- key word "within."

NEW YORK — White supremacists have a problem, and his name is Jared Kushner.

A bipartisan bill would increase the federal penalty for bomb threats and other threats of violence against religious institutions and ensure such acts can be prosecuted as a hate crime.

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JERUSALEM — An Israeli teenager who also has American citizenship was arrested on suspicion of making more than 100 bomb threats on Jewish institutions in the United States.

A 6-year-old Florida girl has sent hundreds of rocks that she painted to place on headstones vandalized in Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia.

Ohio State University’s Hillel cut ties with a Jewish LGBTQ student group for co-sponsoring an event organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

WASHINGTON – Citing the importance to Israel of a robust U.S. posture abroad, Jewish groups decried drastic proposed cuts in foreign assistance funding in President Donald Trump’s budget despite assurances that aid to Israel would be unaffected.

At least seven Jewish community centers in the United States and Canada received bomb threats while they were hosting Purim events.

With federal authorities’ arrest of 31-year old Juan Thompson on March 3 in connection with eight bomb threats to Jewish institutions since January, Jewish community professionals can breathe a partial sigh of relief. But true closure, they say, won’t come until the main perpetrator of the more than 100 incidents in that time is apprehended.

Jewish groups and lawmakers condemned an executive order issued by President Donald Trump banning new visas for citizens from six Muslim-majority countries.