WorldMediaNetworks
Deal with Hamas in reach, senior US official says
A senior Biden administration official who spoke on background with reporters on Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress denied that Netanyahu is holding up a deal that...
Jerusalem warns Paris of Iran-backed plan to strike Israeli Olympians
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a message to French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on Thursday, one day prior to the launch of the Olympic Games in Paris, warning of an Iranian threat to...
YouGov poll: Support for Israel fell since Oct. 7, while Palestinian sympathy rose
YouGov released a poll this week conducted in partnership with The Economist showing decreased advocacy for Israel among Americans.
The group’s research suggested that since a high of pro-Israel sympathies at 48% on Oct. 14—one week after the Hamas...
Film to feature Timothée Chalamet as Jewish table-tennis star Marty Reisman
Timothée Chalamet, the 28-year-old star of the epic sci-fi “Dune” series, is taking a more down-to-earth role in a new movie based on the life of Marty Reisman, a Jewish table tennis champion.
“Marty Supreme” will feature...
Excavations reveal decorated floor of Vilna’s Great Synagogue
Excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, have revealed the floor of the main prayer hall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday. The uncovered sections...
Musk and megachurch, rapture and reprise: Netanyahu’s dark speech to Congress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress was a strange animal: A pseudo-State of the Union merged with evangelical megachurch preaching and a military pep talk, with enough chest-thumping Americana to trigger a round of 'U.S.A.!'...
Efforts ‘taking place right now’ to secure release of hostages, Netanyahu tells US Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday afternoon delivered his fourth address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, in which he called for a decisive victory over the Hamas terror group and...
Number of Democrat legislators declare plans to skip Netanyahu’s address
Some Congress members announced their intent to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Wednesday afternoon in opposition to Israel’s war to dismantle Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Senators planning to skip the speech include Sens....
Chicago City Council enacts ‘hate-littering’ fines to deter spread of fliers
Three weeks before the Democratic Party is scheduled to hold its national convention in Chicago to name its presidential nominee, a local ordinance has moved forward to levy fines on those who spread hate via fliers.
The...
Netanyahu eulogizes Joe Lieberman at DC memorial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogized Joe Lieberman as one of the Jewish people’s “most noble sons,” speaking during a memorial service for the Connecticut senator at the Washington Hebrew Congregation synagogue in the American capital on...