Fatalities were among the thousands of prospective immigrants belonging to the group known as Falash Mura

Scottish character actor Tom Conti plays Jewish scientist who urged wartime US president Roosevelt to speed up development of nuclear weapons

Mae Muller's grandfather fled the Nazis to Wales as a child; 2021 German legislation enables her to obtain citizenship; says European Union travel document will help travel

The day after a gunman killed five on Tunisian island, community celebrates a brit milah, highlighting hopes it will continue to attract pilgrims and remain a beacon of coexistence

About 1,000 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis landed on the island country's shores. With few relics of that time left, a small Jewish museum wants the government to help it reopen

Third guard dies of wounds, after two Jewish worshipers and two other guards are killed by rogue officer who opened fire on Djerba synagogue during annual pilgrimage

Hassen Chalghoumi, who was in Djerba when two Jews were killed there, says the annual event must continue for sake of 1,000-member local Jewish community

The slaying of two Jews and a soldier risks undoing a Jewish-Arab interaction maintained by the annual visits of about 8,000 French, Israeli and other Jews to the Arab country

Park Avenue Synagogue's Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove believes that liberal Judaism needs to encourage mitzvot (commandments) within a framework of autonomous, choice-driven Judaism.

Items valued at over $150 million belonged to billionaire whose German husband took over property seized from Jews; Christie's says proceeds going to charity, Holocaust education