RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after Hamas frees hostages as shaky Gaza truce holds.

Three more Israelis held captive in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of being freed Saturday as part of a shaky ceasefire deal ...

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

Hans Karl Breslauer's 1924 'The City Without Jews' resonates in an environment of rising antisemitism and threatened deportations.

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet the once-fringe settler movement has arguably become the most influential ...

The civilian federal workforce, not including military personnel and postal workers, comprises about 2.4 million people.

Rabbi Leban counts a steady, weekly group of 10 in the Talmud class — which includes Cantor Koll, who made aliyah to Ramat ...

He had just stepped down from a tenure editing the magazine, during which it endorsed both the Iraq War and Joe Lieberman’s ...

Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

I am a Jew, and I am offended when legitimate critiques of Israel’s violent campaign in Gaza are branded as antisemitic.

Identity in the Middle East is still shaped by social and economic relationships rather than by modern political boundaries.