Monthly Archives: October 2018

“PLO announces that it will no longer recognize the State of Israel” now runs as a headline around the world. This is fake news at its best. The PLO never recognized the State of Israel in...

We are excited to share that last night at the San Diego Press Club Awards, our dear friend and columnist of the Jewish Web Site, Mimi Pollack, won first place in the Multicultural Division...

Earlier this year, our colleagues at the three leading Jewish newspapers in the United Kingdom published the same front-page headline and joint editorial voicing concern over rising anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labor party. Today we have...

Officer Dan Mead woke up on Saturday, Oct. 27, and put on his uniform, as he does every morning. He checked in at the station house and began his shift patrolling the streets of Pittsburgh with...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Wednesday, apparently solving some issues with a quick walk. It is Freeland’s first visit to Israel since Justin Trudeau became Canada’s prime...

For the first time, Israel’s Foreign Ministry has appointed a woman to be its next ambassador to Egypt. Amira Oron, who previously served as Israel’s chargé d’affaires in Ankara, Turkey, became the highest-ranking Israeli diplomat...

Israelis woke on Wednesday morning to the tallies of municipal elections conducted across the country on Tuesday, which showed that Jerusalem would face a runoff for mayor between secular candidate Ofer Berkovitch and haredi-backed candidate Moshe Lion,...

A pioneer of Israel’s “Start-Up Nation” culture, one of the Jewish world’s top educators and a founder of the women’s imaging medical field are among the seven recipients of the 2018 Sylvan Adams Nefesh...

The first of the 11 victims of Saturday’s shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a gunman killed 11 people and injured six others, were laid to rest on Tuesday. More than...

Despite mixed reactions, U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon in the aftermath of a gunman killing 11 people and injuring six others at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue. The visit...