News & Opinion

How Sholom Rubashkin’s supporters got Trump to commute his sentence

A supportive Orthodox community and a bipartisan push tipped the balance in favor of a jailed kosher meat manufacturer.

JTA’s most read stories of 2017

From Julian Edelman's improbable Super Bowl catch to the reported Jewishness of Prince Harry's fiancee, these are the 10 stories that JTA readers connected with the most over the past year.

New Austrian chancellor vows to combat anti-Semitism

Sebastian Kurz has ignored calls by leaders of the local Jewish community to drop his coalition partner: The far-right Freedom Party, which was established by a former Nazi SS officer in the 1950s.