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US destroyer sails close to disputed island in the South China Sea

US destroyer sails close to disputed island in the South China Sea

A US Navy destroyer on Sunday sailed within 12 miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea that is claimed by China, a… Read More ›

Bennett Initiative to Block Dividing Jerusalem Heads to Early Vote

Bennett Initiative to Block Dividing Jerusalem Heads to Early Vote

Critics of the bill in question say that such a law would be a major and irreversible stumbling bloc on the way to a peace… Read More ›

Liberal Jews protest conversion bill, Kotel plan freeze outside PM’s residence

Liberal Jews protest conversion bill, Kotel plan freeze outside PM’s residence

Over a thousand people gather after the end of Shabbat to urge the prime minister, ‘Bibi, don’t divide the Jewish people’; ‘The Israeli government turned… Read More ›

Ex-PM Olmert released from prison after 16 months

Ex-PM Olmert released from prison after 16 months

Former premier freed on parole after board reduces corruption sentence by one-third on good behavior   Former prime minister Ehud Olmert was released on parole… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel’s Labor Aims For Relevance With Leadership Election

Jerusalem – Israel’s Labor Aims For Relevance With Leadership Election

  Jerusalem –  Israel’s venerable Labor Party, which led the country to independence and steered it for decades through wars, crises and the pursuit of… Read More ›

‘I’m president and they’re not’: Trump slams media in speech honoring veterans

‘I’m president and they’re not’: Trump slams media in speech honoring veterans

  President Donald Trump slammed the “dishonest media” Saturday night during a speech honoring veterans, following up on multiple attacks he had lobbed at the… Read More ›

Nikki Haley Slams UN Security Council for Inaction on Iran

Nikki Haley Slams UN Security Council for Inaction on Iran

Most UN sanctions were lifted 18 months ago under a deal Iran made with key world powers to curb its nuclear program.   US Ambassador… Read More ›

Soldiers must learn how to deal with Jewish rioters

Soldiers must learn how to deal with Jewish rioters

Op-ed: After 50 years of serving in the territories, after hundreds and maybe even thousands of clashes with settlers and Hilltop Youth, the army must… Read More ›

US accuses UN of failing to address Iran’s ‘repeated’ flouting of nuclear deal

US accuses UN of failing to address Iran’s ‘repeated’ flouting of nuclear deal

In rebuke to Security Council, Ambassador Haley cites Tehran’s ‘ballistic missile launches’ and ‘proven arms smuggling’   UNITED NATIONS, NY — The United States on… Read More ›

New York – Lower Manhattan Office Rents Hit Peak As Revived Downtown Booms

New York – Lower Manhattan Office Rents Hit Peak As Revived Downtown Booms

  New York – Asking rents for office space in downtown New York hit a record high in May as construction of a new tower… Read More ›

Susan Rice agrees to testify before House intelligence panel

Susan Rice agrees to testify before House intelligence panel

The House intelligence committee plans to interview Susan Rice next month as part of its investigation into Russia meddling in the US election last year,… Read More ›

Hamas, PFLP Partners to Speak at UN Event Marking 50 Years of ‘Occupation’

Hamas, PFLP Partners to Speak at UN Event Marking 50 Years of ‘Occupation’

Earlier this month, the PFLP claimed responsibility for the murder of Israeli policewoman Hadas Malka, killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on June 16.… Read More ›

It’s not Olmert who should be ashamed

It’s not Olmert who should be ashamed

Op-ed: The attorney general and state attorney’s decision to allow five police investigators to raid the Yedioth Books publishing house is nothing less than a… Read More ›

Jewish tech millionaire turned lawmaker could be first openly gay governor of Colorado

Jewish tech millionaire turned lawmaker could be first openly gay governor of Colorado

Jared Polis wants to use his business know-how to bring free education to young children statewide — and use 100% renewable energy by 2040  … Read More ›

London – Baby Girl Was Found Dead In Mother’s Arms In London High-rise Blaze

London – Baby Girl Was Found Dead In Mother’s Arms In London High-rise Blaze

  London – The number of people killed or presumed dead in the London high-rise fire has inched up to 80, but the final death… Read More ›

Opinion: Why isn’t Obama hitting back at Trump?

Opinion: Why isn’t Obama hitting back at Trump?

  The contrast could not be more extreme: a loud, pushy, anti-intellectual President Donald Trump versus a soft-spoken, recessive, philosophical former president, Barack Obama. The… Read More ›

David Friedman: Can Jews Survive Themselves?

David Friedman: Can Jews Survive Themselves?

Friedman was speaking at a B’nai B’rith World Center award ceremony for excellence in journalism on Diaspora affairs   In his maiden public speech as… Read More ›

US Israel envoy won’t take sides on Kotel, conversion crisis

US Israel envoy won’t take sides on Kotel, conversion crisis

Speaking to an audience in Jerusalem, David Friedman acknowledges divides between Jews but refuses to take sides on gov’t decisions over conversions and Kotel; laments… Read More ›

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

The complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is lost on many in the gay community leading to outright rejection of the Jewish state   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Washington – Watchdog Clears Park Service In Inauguration Crowd Size Disputes

Washington – Watchdog Clears Park Service In Inauguration Crowd Size Disputes

  Washington – An internal watchdog has found no wrongdoing by the National Park Service in a dispute over crowd size at President Donald Trump’s… Read More ›