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By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM – For the past two decades, a conflict has been slowly escalating in the Netherlands over the wintertime custom of wearing blackface ahead...

By Ron Kampeas Tony Blinken vividly described his stepfather’s Holocaust-era rescue in accepting President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination to be secretary of state on Tuesday. Blinken also...

By Emily Burack This year’s Grammy Awards will almost certainly be different from past years, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. But despite the lack of...

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is set to nominate Janet Yellen as secretary of the treasury, according to multiple reports on Monday. She would...

By Philissa Cramer Weeks after one prominent Satmar wedding was publicly called off amid a backlash over convening guests during the pandemic, members of the...

By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM — The leader of the Dutch right-wing Forum for Democracy party resigned Monday following reports that members of its youth movement...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Police seized two pots of marijuana plants from the courtyard of a historic synagogue in Medanos, a small village in...

By Cnaan Liphshiz The world’s first lab-grown meat restaurant has opened near Tel Aviv, the Los Angeles-based VegNews reported. The eatery, whose name is “The Chicken”...

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the heightened threat facing American...

NMAJH to Hold Annual Christmas Day Event Online The National Museum of American Jewish History announced that it will host its annual Being ___ at...