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Netanyahu welcomes new British prime minister

Netanyahu welcomes new British prime minister

Israeli leader sends Theresa May a warm message as she enters 10 Downing Street, thanks Cameron for his friendship   Benjamin Netanyahu sent incoming British… Read More ›

Like his boss, new UK FM Boris Johnson is an Israel backer

Like his boss, new UK FM Boris Johnson is an Israel backer

Ex-London mayor who led Brexit campaign, Theresa May’s surprise choice for key post, supports stronger tech ties with Israel, has blasted ‘foolish’ BDS   Boris… Read More ›

IDF chief of staff sticks with Karim, despite controversy

IDF chief of staff sticks with Karim, despite controversy

Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim remains Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot’s pick for the position of the military’s chief rabbi, despite his controversial past statements regarding women,… Read More ›

IDF radio and rabbinate: What are they good for?

IDF radio and rabbinate: What are they good for?

Op-ed: At the foundation of the state, Ben-Gurion sought to unify a nation of immigrants, both with education and military service; but Israel isn’t a… Read More ›

Republicans okay platform excluding ‘two-state’ language

Republicans okay platform excluding ‘two-state’ language

Party committee unanimously votes to omit references to a Palestinian state alongside Israel as solution to conflict   WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Party’s Platform… Read More ›

Analysis: Automatic voting against Israel at UNESCO? Not anymore

Analysis: Automatic voting against Israel at UNESCO? Not anymore

Israel successfully chipping away at upcoming UNESCO ballot.   Israel was caught flatfooted in April when UNESCO’s 58-member executive board adopted a resolution with language… Read More ›

GOP draft platform sidesteps two-state solution

GOP draft platform sidesteps two-state solution

Ahead of party convention, party doubles down on Jerusalem, offers implicit criticism of Obama administration   WASHINGTON – The Republican Party platform committee held its… Read More ›

NGO bill’s hit list: 23 out of the 25 organizations are left-wing

NGO bill’s hit list: 23 out of the 25 organizations are left-wing

No right-wing groups on list of organizations receiving foreign state funding, which does include B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Yesh Din   Out of 25 non-governmental… Read More ›

Theresa May, a ‘long-standing friend of Israel’

Theresa May, a ‘long-standing friend of Israel’

The parliamentary chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel issued a statement saying that “Israel can rest assured that a UK led by Theresa May… Read More ›

Warsaw, Poland – US Group Celebrates Poles Who Saved Jews During Holocaust

Warsaw, Poland – US Group Celebrates Poles Who Saved Jews During Holocaust

  Warsaw, Poland – One man is 101 years old. Others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or… Read More ›

Filmmaker goes from toilet paper factory to world tour

Filmmaker goes from toilet paper factory to world tour

Director Nitzan Gilady’s dreary pre-army experience grew into a buoyant and imaginative story about a physically challenged woman’s inner world   When a young Nitzan… Read More ›

With every terror attack must come new construction

With every terror attack must come new construction

Op-ed: Settlement freeze policy sends the message to terrorists that violence and terror works. This mentality must be changed to a message conveying that every… Read More ›

German news network accuses Israel of teaching children to hate

German news network accuses Israel of teaching children to hate

A documentary titled ‘teaching to hate?’ will be broadcasted on German mainstream network ZDF. The documentary aims to show how children are educated to kill,… Read More ›

Jewish groups look for answers after five cops killed in Dallas shootings

Jewish groups look for answers after five cops killed in Dallas shootings

ADL calls for ‘increased bias training’ for law enforcement officials.   We are at a turning point here in the US” is a statement uttered… Read More ›

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

Group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urges GOP to use similar language to reflect bipartisan consensus on Israel   The Anti-Defamation League commended the Democratic National Convention’s… Read More ›

The boy from Block 32

The boy from Block 32

A chance conversation in a Parisian café revealed that its interlocutors had apparently been in the same barracks in Auschwitz; it blossomed into a lifelong… Read More ›

Jews and Muslims actually defend Donald Trump

Jews and Muslims actually defend Donald Trump

GOP candidate’s controversial comments sometimes make task of bringing their communities to his camp more difficult, though change in discourse now happening, say Eve Stieglitz,… Read More ›

It was ‘hurry up and wait,’ but there’s a decade of quiet in North

It was ‘hurry up and wait,’ but there’s a decade of quiet in North

Three foot soldiers look back on 2006’s Second Lebanon War.   For Gabriel Avner, the Second Lebanon War was a formative experience, if one that’s… Read More ›

‘Yemenite Children Affair’ report made available online

‘Yemenite Children Affair’ report made available online

The report from the Kedmi Committee, which looked into the disappearances of children of Jewish Yemenite immigrants between 1948–1954, is now accessible online; the report… Read More ›

Commission recommends inclusion of Sephardic, Mizrahi Jewish history in school curriculum

Commission recommends inclusion of Sephardic, Mizrahi Jewish history in school curriculum

Recommendations include taking students on school trips to Morocco, Spain and the Balkans; introducing topics relating to Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry in history, literature and… Read More ›