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Syria accuses Israel of killing government official near Golan border
Syria on Sunday accused Israel of killing a high-ranking government official outside his home near the Israel-Syria border.
Midhat al-Saleh, 54, was the head of the Syrian government’s Golan Affairs Office and a former lawmaker....
Jewish organizations join to urge Supreme Court to review terror-financing case
A number of Jewish organizations have submitted a friend-of-the-court brief this week asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case involving a British bank accused of helping fund Hamas terrorist in activity...
Summit for student leaders aims to promote more unity between black, Jewish communities
The pro-Israel student group Maccabi Task Force organized its first three-day conference to help strengthen the relationship between black and Jewish communities.
Roughly 100 people from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) attended the Black...
Michal Cotler-Wunsh: Jewish Agency can shift relationship paradigm with everyone at table
As a former Knesset member and now head of the Nefesh B’Nefesh Institute for Aliyah Policy and Strategy, as well as a senior consultant to the Jewish Federations of North America, Michal Cotler-Wunsh is...
‘Feeling part of the story’: Having made the move, ‘olim’ and Israel mark Aliyah...
By the time newly minted Israeli Shira Denise Kilemnic Mac and her husband, Abraham, along with their two youngsters, stepped off the plane in Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport on July 22, her reputation...
The Jewish stake in resisting the war on school-board critics
In our bifurcated political culture, most Americans not only have forgotten how to listen to those who disagree with them but have also stopped being willing to credit opponents with good motives. That’s part...
Is Eric Zemmour the new Bruno Kreisky?
Could a politician who positively identifies as Jewish and expresses pro-Israel sympathies ever be elected as head of state in a European country?
The question is still a hypothetical one. In spite of the large...
Qatar restarts cash payments to Palestinians in Gaza, using UN credit cards
Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip began receiving payments on Thursday after Israel agreed to a new distribution system that includes the involvement of the United Nations.
Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi said that payments of...
Jewish death-row inmate wins new trial in Texas, citing judge’s anti-Semitic slurs
A Dallas County judge ordered that Jewish death-row inmate Randy Halprin should get a new trial after considering evidence that the judge who presided over his case was biased against Jews.
Halprin, 44, claimed that former Dallas County judge...
Search underway for woman in Brooklyn who set fire in front of yeshivah
Police are searching for an unidentified African-American woman seen on surveillance video pouring gasoline in front of a Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., before setting the liquid on fire. The incident occurred Thursday night...