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.

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 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.

WATCH: Jewish ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets kicks off mayoral campaign, says he had made mistakes but also learned 'some tough lessons.'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter of condolence to President Obama on Tuesday morning in the wake of the tornado.

United States Internal Revenue Service reverses its revocation more than a year after ZOA failure to file financial disclosures.

The State Department announced the appointment the same day it released its 2012 report on religious freedom that recorded a 'continued global increase in anti-Semitism.'

To mark the premier broadcast of the American Masters installment on Mel Brooks, here is JTA's Ami Eden's list of top Jewish scenes.

The Jewish-American therapist parlayed her 1955 game show victory into a nearly six-decade career as a television personality and a columnist.