JTA – Queen Esther is back in the news – and it’s not good news, and it’s got very little to do with the Jewish holiday of Purim, in whose story she is the starring character. Loved and ...

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. NEW YORK — A Palestinian student protester at New York’s Columbia University has been arrested, and another whose visa was revoked ...

After arriving in Doha earlier this week, US special envoy Steve Witkoff presented Israel and Hamas with a new outline to extend the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip by several weeks in exchange for ...

However, cities surrounded by a wall at the time of Esther (5th century BCE) mark the holiday a day later. This custom aims to commemorate how the Jews of Shushan, the capital of the Persian ...

New Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has okayed the transfer of sensitive documents related to the army’s failure to prevent Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, to ...

An Iranian sports climber, widely praised in 2022 for competing without a hijab at the height of nationwide protests, has left the country, her brother and an Iranian official said. Elnaz Rekabi ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday reposted an article saying that the government had invited Tesla to participate in a tender to supply vehicles to top Israeli government officials ...

In an apparent softening of his proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, US President Donald Trump asserted Wednesday that the plan does not involve expelling Palestinians. During a press spray with ...

The Lebanese army on Thursday confirmed receiving the last of five detainees that Israel said it would free as part of what the Prime Minister’s Office called a “gesture to the Lebanese ...

Some 1,600 years ago, a mysterious woman was bound with four heavy metal rings around her neck and others around her arms and legs. Iron plates on her stomach completed what was effectively an ...