President Joe Biden’s first stop on his Middle East tour was Israel, and a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. The two men signed an agreement declaring the bonds between their two countries “unbreakable” and “unshakeable.” The so-called Jerusalem Declaration includes a U.S. pledge not to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon and “to use all elements of its national power to ensure that outcome.” The U.S. president also visited Yad Vashem, the [...]

“The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do,” the newest exhibit at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, is now open. The 12,000-square-foot exhibit features more than 750 objects and artifacts donated by survivors and their families, many who settled in the New York area. The exhibit tells the story of Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust. The museum said. One of the items on display is a Torah scroll rescued during Kristallnacht and packed in [...]

Hebrew University archaeologists Michal Haber, left, and Dr. Oren Gutfeld pack up a vessel and other items they discovered at the site of a mikvah, near the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. A project to build a handicap access elevator from the Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount unearthed the mikvah, which dates to the 1st century CE.   AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo