In Connecticut, New York and California, young Jewish activists are taking responsibility for procuring, slaughtering and distributing kosher meat. Why the sudden interest? On a

Julie Burchill, 49, is an exceptionally popular yet wildly controversial British columnist who for decades has defended Israel in British newspapers such as The Sunday Times,

The Sudanese security officer fingered my American passport and asked where my family was from. “America,” I said. He smiled, and then pressed further: “Where

Ismail Ahmed is one of the lucky ones. He works 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, in his shop in Tel Aviv. Many

When he was 13, Akon told us, the government-backed militia came to his village in southern Sudan. “They started killing people and burning their houses,”

Darfur has become a symbol of burned villages, rape and murder, but the region of western Sudan that gives its name to genocide in Africa

Equally well known in Washington’s corridors of power as at government tables in far-flung countries including North Korea, Cuba, Pakistan, China and Russia, American businessman

Signs of Jewish renewal are flickering across southern Italy, especially at Rabbi Barbara Aiello's Ner Tamid del Sud congregation, which has now joined the Reconstructionist movement.