The latest gift by casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam brings the couple’s overall donations to the program to $180 million.

'We know there's a global village, but we're not exactly part of it,' says a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The conference of Jewish Presidents has urged Yair Lapid to rethink plans to charge tourists VAT. If the U.S. Jewish connection to Israel is merely linked to how cheap it is for tourists, however, then we are in serious trouble.

The broken-up Diaspora affairs portfolio, traditionally manned by governmental neophytes, has had its responsibilities split up between hard-right hawks. Peacenik Jews of the world, don't hold your breath for any change.

At the Belzer wedding in Jerusalem, attended by thousands of people, the rabbi had a special dance not just with the bride, but with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Such warmth between ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis is not an everyday occurrence.

Top conference officials were sufficiently concerned by allegations that they launched probe in 2001 that did not detect wider fraud; Semen Domnitser, a Claims Conference employee, was found guilty March 8 of the $57 million scheme.

The Tel Aviv-Krakow route would cater to visitors of the former death camp near the southern Polish city.

The 42-year-old veteran city councilman's mother is Jewish and he was raised as a Jew. On his father’s side, he is of mixed Italian and Mexican heritage.

The family-owned Streit's Matzo factory on the Lower East Side has been feeding Americans since the 1920s. A crowdsourcing campaign is underway to complete a movie that tells its story.

Alejandro Toledo is suspected of fraudulently buying a $4 million house in Lima using money from his mother-in-law, 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Eva Fernenburg.