Daily Archives: September 14, 2018

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is back in the news. The once longtime Massachusetts senator is promoting his new memoir and using the book tour to get in as many shots at the...

Twelve hours and an ocean separated two important speeches this week. On Monday, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton addressed the Federalist Society in Washington. The next day, European Union foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini...

The chances for Middle East peace have improved by eliminating the “false realities” that surround the peacemaking process between the Israelis and Palestinians despite recent U.S. moves against the latter, according to U.S. President...

Michael Steinhardt, one of Hillel International’s biggest donors, made inappropriate sexual remarks to a female employee of the organization, according to The Jewish Week. As a result, Hillel has launched an investigation, as a second female employee...

David Keyes, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday that he was taking a leave of absence to defend himself against accusations of sexual misconduct by at least 14 women. The...

An Israeli human-rights organization has filed a request at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, asking the organization to investigate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh for exploiting thousands of Palestinian children in the...

Ahead of this November’s midterm elections, the American Jewish Congress just launched its inaugural “Jewish Voters Guide.” The 2018 guide is a database summarizing the stances of congressional candidates to inform voters on issues that...

Two teams of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology collaborated to conduct monumental research to discover an innovative new scientific field: Quantum Metamaterials. The findings are presented in a paper published by the prominent journal Science. Previously, experiments with...

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill by a vote of 393-2 that would elevate the State Department official who deals with the issue of anti-Semitism from envoy to ambassador. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.)...

A children’s playground was cordoned off in Kiryat Gat on Friday morning, when police were alerted to a bunch of “terror balloons” launched from Gaza that landed in a residential play area before the...