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Israeli President Isaac Herzog is received by an honor guard in Amman, Jordan, March 30, 2022. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Israeli President Herzog and Jordan’s King Abdullah meet in Amman

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Jordan on Wednesday for an official visit at the invitation of King Abdullah II. He was received by the Jordanian leader at an official ceremony at the royal...
A cartoon published in Saudi daily "Makkah" on March 22, 2022. The text accompanying the image read, "Nuclear agreement—an American gift to Iran which will only serve to encourage it to continue to ignite the Middle East." Source: Makkah via MEMRI.

Arab press blasts reported US plan to remove IRGC from terror list

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In response to reports that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as part of its efforts to renew the 2015 nuclear...
The U.S. Capitol Dome. Credit: Orhan Cam/Shutterstock.

Lipstadt nomination moves to full vote in Senate

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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday advanced the nomination of Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Lipstadt, 75, a top Holocaust historian and the...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits David Ben-Gurion Memorial National Park with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Sde Boker, Israel, on March 28, 2022. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Freddie Everett.

US obsession with Palestinians and appeasement of Iran dampened Negev Summit

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Sunday’s “Negev Summit” gathering of the foreign ministers of four Arab countries in Israel may have been the first such high-profile visit by multiple Middle Eastern dignitaries and served as an inaugural meeting of...
Israeli police officers and rescue forces at the scene of a terrorist shooting attack in Bnei Brak, before the terrorist moved on to Ramat Gan, March 29, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

US, EU envoys condemn terror attack in Bnei Brak

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Ambassadors from the United States and European Union condemned the latest terror attack in Israel, which claimed five lives in Bnei Brak. “Just now hearing reports of another attack in Israel, this time taking the...
Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Avi Dichter, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

‘The Palestinians are 100% responsible for Oslo failing’

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Passover night, March 27, 2002: The Dichter family home in Ashkelon is full of family and friends. The phone rings. “I answered the phone, and the voice on the other end of the line said...
Actor Will Smith slaps Chris Rock, fellow actor, comedian and host of the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish comedians react to Academy Awards ‘slap heard round the world’

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When Will Smith jumped up on stage at the Academy Awards on Sunday night to approach fellow comedian and actor Chris Rock, the host of the show, many in the audience assumed it was...
Dr. John H. Merey as a child with his parents. Credit: Courtesy.

Ophthalmologist John H. Merey shares his Holocaust survival story

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Dr. John H. Merey, who practices ophthalmology in West Palm Beach, Fla., was born in Budapest, Hungary, and survived the Holocaust, due to the heroic actions of Zionist Rudolf Israel (Rezső Kasztner) Kasztner. He recently shared...
A Ukrainian 19th-century “lubok” (popular print) representing the Passover seder table. Credit: Anonymous folk artist via Wikimedia Commons.

Yeshiva University produces Haggadah guide to prompt introspection at seder table

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With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine and rising inflation as Passover approaches, faculty and graduate students of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education have produced an interactive Haggadah companion that...
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hillary Clinton tries to rewrite history

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I understand that Hillary Clinton is mourning the passing of her friend and predecessor, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. But that doesn’t give her the right to revise the historical record concerning Albright and...