Ambassador David Friedman: Israel must ‘grow up’ and decide its eastern border
Israel and Israel alone can make decisions fateful to its future, and it can start with reaching clarity about its eastern border, said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the second Israeli...
Baltimore-area JCC receives bomb threat, second in two weeks
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore received an anti-Semitic bomb threat on Tuesday, its second in less than two weeks.
The first one, sent on May 15, led to the evacuation of JCC’s Rosenblum Owings...
Biden visit to Israel aims to please, but may alienate all parties instead
Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s as-yet-unconfirmed visit to Israel next month, a number of reports have surfaced regarding what the president aims to achieve during his trip to the region. One report claimed...
US Treasury targets Russian-backed Iranian oil-smuggling network
On the day that the Biden administration point man on Iran testified before a Senate committee, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new sanctions package targeting an oil-smuggling and money-laundering network belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...
US Treasury targets Hamas investment portfolio with sanctions
Days after sanctioning a Lebanese businessman and his network for funding the Hamas terror organization that rules the Gaza Strip, the U.S. Treasury Department announced similar measures on Tuesday, targeting several Jordanian nationals.
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...
El Al moves US headquarters from New York to Miami
Israeli national airline El Al announced that it is moving its U.S. headquarters from New York City to Miami to save the company $500,000 annually.
According to a report by Israel’s business daily Globes, the airline...
Rep. Tlaib attends ‘nakba’ rally where activist calls for use of guns, stones, rockets
Osama Siblani, the publisher of The Arab American News, said in a “Nakba Day” rally on May 15 in Dearborn, Mich., that despite Israel thinking that its 1948 borders are safe, Palestinians have carried out successful...
Boston terror victim realizes dream of opening rabbinical school in New England
On May 19, the Jewish holiday of Lag B’Omer, the ribbon-cutting for a new rabbinical school was held in Brighton, Mass., with philanthropist Robert Kraft flanked by local rabbis, dignitaries and elected officials.
The school...
Jewish groups react to mass shooting in Buffalo, lamenting dismal shared experience of late
While no Jewish people were victims of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in which 10 people were killed and three injured, Jewish communal organizations reacted strongly to the incident, which was...
Muslim-American delegation visits Israel, UAE in support of Abraham Accords
A 14-member delegation of mainly Muslim-Americans of Pakistani background were in Israel from May 8-14 to show support for the 2018 Abraham Accords between Israel and several Muslim states. The 10-day trip to both...