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Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov delivers a speech at the Conference on Disarmament, March 14, 2022. Credit: U.N. Photo by Emmanuel Hungrecker.

Russia says Western sanctions related to Ukraine war have no bearing on Iran talks

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that he has received guarantees from the United States that Western sanctions on Moscow over its Ukraine invasion would not affect cooperation with Iran as part...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addresses a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on Nov. 8, 2021. Photo by Oliiver Fitoussi/Flash90.

Lapid: Israel condemns war, but it will not act as bypass channel of Russia...

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Israel will not act as a bypass channel of sanctions for Russia imposed by the West, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Monday, according to a report by Globes. In a meeting with Slovakian Foreign Minister...
Israel prepares a field hospital at Sheba Medical Center that will be transported to Ukraine on March 5, 2022. Credit: Sheba Medical Center.

Israeli field hospital for Ukrainian refugees to be named after Golda Meir

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Israel announced on Monday that it has officially approved a field hospital for refugees in Western Ukraine. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the humanitarian mission—dubbed “Kochav Meir” in Hebrew (“Shining Star”)—is named after the late Israeli...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Jan. 11, 2022. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Bennett speaks with Putin, Zelensky as mediation efforts on war continue

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky separately on Monday as the Israeli leader’s mediation efforts continued. Bennett spoke with Putin for about an hour-and-a-half with the two...
A group of 27 New York-based undergraduate students is heading to Vienna for a week to support Ukrainian refugees with plans to provide educational activities for children, sort donations, deliver supplies and help coordinate housing, March 13, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Yeshiva University students head overseas to assist Ukrainian refugees

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With more than 1.5 million Ukrainians fleeing to neighboring countries amid Russia’s invasion in what U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi calls the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, a humanitarian...
Former U.S. senator Joe Lieberman attends the opening event of the Begin Symposium in Jerusalem, March 13, 2022. Credit: Hanna Taieb.

Joseph Lieberman: US inaction against Russia empowers Iran

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America, the four other permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany should realize that allowing Russia to get away with its invasion of Ukraine “will encourage countries like Iran to be more aggressive with...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu in Bucharest, Romania, March 13, 2022. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem/GPO.

Lapid meets Romanian counterpart in Bucharest to discuss Ukraine crisis

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met in Bucharest on Sunday with his Romanian counterpart, Bogdan Aurescu, to discuss the Ukraine crisis and the refugee issue. Following his meeting with Aurescu, Lapid was scheduled to...
Roman Abramovich (left) in 2014 in Moscow. Credit: Magicinfoto/Shutterstock.

Yad Vashem cuts ties with Roman Abramovich after UK announces sanctions

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Israel’s Yad Vashem announced on Thursday that it was cutting ties with its second-largest private donor, Roman Abramovich. The notice came shortly after the Russian billionaire was named as one of seven oligarchs being...
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Former largest yeshivah in world becomes refugee camp in Poland for Ukrainian Jews

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A yeshivah in Poland that was once the largest in the world has been converted into a refugee camp for Ukrainian Jews fleeing their home county as Russia’s war continues. Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva operated in...
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin via videoconference on Dec. 7, 2021. Credit: Presidential Executive Office of Russia via Wikimedia Commons.

Opposing Putin is about more than sympathy for an underdog

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Americans are so polarized that even when almost everyone basically agrees about something, their instincts tell them to distrust it. That’s what’s happening in the discussion about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Virtually...