Straddling the edges of Hadrian’s Wall, the northern English city is far from the London Bagel Belt, but the Newcastle Reform Synagogue is bubbling along

While the Jewish Agency recognizes the non-Orthodox conversions of the Abayudaya community, the Interior Ministry refuses, driving a bigger wedge between Israeli and Diaspora Jewry

From Nobel prizewinners to celebrity Hanukkah videos -- and some not insignificant peace deals for the Jewish state -- here's a partial list of a trying year's brighter moments

A new program co-sponsored by the Israeli government and Limmud FSU is fostering innovation that will help grow local Jewish life and build bridges with the Jewish state

What's in a name? Bearers of stereotypically 'non-Jewish' monikers say they must challenge people's assumptions on a daily basis and can face questioning when entering Israel

After the Likud and religious right try to box progressive center-left Jews out of influential positions, legacy organizations step in, delay vote, hammer out a compromise

Legislation would require ministries to interact with Jewish communities abroad about issues that affect them, in an effort to repair strained relations

Legacy Jewish organization step in to delay vote in effort to thwart power-sharing deal beneficial to the religious and right that threatens to marginalize progressive Jews

Beirut-born Elie Abadie, a prominent scholar of Sephardic Judaism, to relocate to Dubai by November 1, as Emirati community expects to expand following Abraham Accords

Minister of State Shamma Al Mazrui notes similarities between Islam and Judaism, calls herself a 'new student of the Jewish tradition and wisdom, your values, your ethics'