House Democrats in Israel say ‘Squad’ doesn’t speak for party
Since Democrats were swept into power in the U.S. House of Representatives in November—with some harboring more progressive views than the mainstream—questions have rattled many in the Jewish community over whether or not the...
Almost one year since deadly shooting, Pittsburgh Jewish community ‘still shaken’
It has been a deadly week in America with the back-to-back shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which left a combined total of 31 people dead. For the Jewish community, it dredged...
Court orders neo-Nazi website founder to pay $14 million for inciting violence
The founder of the alt-right website The Daily Stormer was ordered by court on Thursday to pay a Jewish real estate agent $14 million for inciting his readers to harass her family, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. District Judge...
Despite previous pushback, Tufts University again to offer ‘Colonizing Palestine’ course
A course on the docket again this fall at Tufts University is causing controversy even before classes begin.
“Colonizing Palestine,” offered by the Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies Department (RCD), “will explore the histories and...
Danon urges action by UN Security Council after terror groups kill Israeli student
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon urged the world body to condemn the murder of an Israeli teen in an apparent terrorist attack in the West Bank on Thursday.
In a letter addressed...
American Airlines to fly nonstop from Dallas to Israel starting in 2020
American Airlines has announced that it will offer nonstop flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Tel Aviv starting on Sept. 9, 2020.
It will be the first time the carrier has flown to Ben-Gurion...
SS guard, 92, to go on trial in Germany for Nazi crimes
A 92-year-old former SS guard charged with helping murder 5,230 prisoners at a Nazi death camp in World War II will go on trial in October, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Bruno Dey, whose full name will...
Israeli high school robotics team wins first place at competition in China
The robotics team of the Tichonet high school in Tel Aviv was part of a group that won first place in an international robotics competition in China.
The team’s mentor, Raanan De Haas, said the...
David Bedein addresses the UK Zionist Federation on the subject of “The UK and...
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist. In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance...
Hamas and Islamic Jihad praise ‘heroic fighters’ who murdered Israeli student
Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both praised the stabbing death of an Israeli yeshivah student on Thursday.
In a statement, Hamas said that “our people’s heroic fighters who carried out the heroic operation that killed...