The U.S. Department of Justice again has declined to intervene in the sentencing of a convicted kosher meat executive.

The American Jewish World Service joined other human rights groups in criticizing the Obama administration for not exacting consequences on Sudan for elections seen as flawed.

With anxiety over the White House’s Middle East policy mounting in some pro-Israel circles, several Jewish organizational leaders have found themselves in a discomfiting position: criticizing the Obama administration in public while stridently defending the president in private against the most extreme attacks.

A Jewish group in South Africa still plans to protest if Richard Goldstone attends his grandson's bar mitzvah.

The Holocaust survivors who helped build Israel "made our world better," U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said.

In an open letter to President Obama, the president of the World Jewish Congress expressed concern over the deterioration in relations between Israel and the United States.

A Brooklyn rabbi was given the maximum prison sentence for sexually assaulting a male teenager.

Following the riots in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the Keren Yedidut Fellowship Foundation (otherwise known as the International Foundation of Christians and Jews) has decided to help needy Jews of Bishkek and other cities in Kyrgyzstan.

Jews in Poland joined in mourning the victims of a plane crash that took the lives of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other members of Poland's leadership.

For Jews, Poland’s late president, Lech Kaczynski, was a man of many firsts.
He was the first Polish president to attend a service at a Polish synagogue, the first to celebrate Chanukah at the presidential palace, the first Polish leader to provide support for a Jewish history museum on Polish soil.