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Spanish Fork, UT – Video Captures Snowplow Forced Off Road In Utah, Down 300-foot Embankment

Spanish Fork, UT – Video Captures Snowplow Forced Off Road In Utah, Down 300-foot Embankment

Spanish Fork, UT – A snowplow clearing snow in Spanish Fork Canyon was pushed off the road by a passing semitrailer and rolled down a… Read More ›

Trump’s cabinet nominees diverge from him on key issues

Trump’s cabinet nominees diverge from him on key issues

Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for high-level positions in his administration this week split with him on key issues like trade, torture, and the US… Read More ›

Mattis, Trump Pick for Pentagon, Names Tel Aviv as Israeli Capital

Mattis, Trump Pick for Pentagon, Names Tel Aviv as Israeli Capital

Trump, for his part, said at several points during his campaign for president that he would work toward peace between Israelis and Palestinians– “the deal… Read More ›

Jerusalem is undividable

Jerusalem is undividable

Op-ed: Instead of dividing Israel’s capital, we must expand it and strengthen its Jewish majority. How? Annexing Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem will dramatically affect the… Read More ›

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

27-year-old plantation owner Francis Salvador made history on Jan. 11, 1775, when he was appointed to the South Carolina Provincial Congress   JTA — Long… Read More ›

Beijing – It’s The Year Of The (Giant Inflatable Trump) Rooster At One Chinese Factory

Beijing – It’s The Year Of The (Giant Inflatable Trump) Rooster At One Chinese Factory

  Beijing – A factory in eastern China is racing to keep up with demand for its new clutch – giant inflatable rooster balloons that… Read More ›

Here’s the 10-step process that the Republicans will use to repeal Obamacare

Here’s the 10-step process that the Republicans will use to repeal Obamacare

  Early Thursday morning, Senate Republicans kicked off what is expected to be a long, winding process of repealing the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare… Read More ›

Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ Comment

Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ Comment

Anti-Defamation League: President-elect’s remark about Nazi Germany warrants an apology.   The Anti-Defamation League said a remark made Wednesday by US President-elect Donald Trump comparing… Read More ›

B’Tselem ensuring that we don’t lose our humanity

B’Tselem ensuring that we don’t lose our humanity

Op-ed: In its clear statement on the severity of Elor Azaria’s actions, the court nailed the importance of the organization that exposed them. This becomes… Read More ›

Trump secretary of state pick: Two-state solution must remain the ‘aspiration’

Trump secretary of state pick: Two-state solution must remain the ‘aspiration’

Laying out views on conflict for first time, Rex Tillerson says Palestinians must give up violence if they want state, laments failures by leadership on… Read More ›

New York – Facebook Takes On A Bigger Role In Journalism

New York – Facebook Takes On A Bigger Role In Journalism

  New York – Facebook is launching a journalism project aimed at strengthening its ties with media organizations to help them expand their audiences, come… Read More ›

Trump: ‘I think it was Russia’

Trump: ‘I think it was Russia’

  President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time Wednesday he believes Russia was responsible for hacking ahead of the election but contemptuously rejected allegations… Read More ›

Two Years Later, Paris Remembers Hyper Cacher

Two Years Later, Paris Remembers Hyper Cacher

“It is difficult to realize that this quiet place was the site of such barbaric acts.”   PARIS – For three hours, undeterred by the… Read More ›

Israel must not lose Eisenkot

Israel must not lose Eisenkot

Analysis: A major battle over the calls to pardon Elor Azaria is taking place behind the scenes between the chief of staff and Prime Minister… Read More ›

Obama: Netanyahu talks of two-state solution but his actions undermine it

Obama: Netanyahu talks of two-state solution but his actions undermine it

In final interview with Israeli TV, president says ‘unfettered support’ for settlements by his successor would bring ‘worsening situation’ to conflict   In a final… Read More ›

Washington – Lawsuits Over Trump Business Threaten To Tie Up Presidency

Washington – Lawsuits Over Trump Business Threaten To Tie Up Presidency

  Washington – As a businessman, Donald Trump has kept the courts busy. That’s hardly likely to change when he enters the Oval Office, creating… Read More ›

REPORT: Intel chiefs tell Trump that Russian operatives claim to have compromising information on him

REPORT: Intel chiefs tell Trump that Russian operatives claim to have compromising information on him

  US intelligence officials told the incoming president in a classified briefing last week that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information on… Read More ›

Analysis: Less Hemming and Hawing from the World This Time Around

Analysis: Less Hemming and Hawing from the World This Time Around

What gives? Why responses much more empathetic this time than in the past?   Maybe the penny is starting to drop… at least for the… Read More ›

Serving faithfully: US religious girls in the Israeli army

Serving faithfully: US religious girls in the Israeli army

Every year, hundreds of young Jewish American women choose to leave the Orthodox homes they grew up in and make aliyah in order to defend… Read More ›

Trump names Jared Kushner as senior adviser to president, may focus on Mideast

Trump names Jared Kushner as senior adviser to president, may focus on Mideast

Skirting anti-nepotism laws, lawyers devise way for president-elect’s son-in-law to serve in White House; Kushner to forego salary   WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump named… Read More ›