Tag: Russia
The Real Russia Challenge Trump Faces
After beating ISIS, the administration can’t stand by idly as the chaos in Syria leads to war between Israel and Iran’s Hezbollah auxiliaries.
Donald Trump was elected president of the United States promising an “America...
Experts warn of ‘escalation’ between Israel and Russia over Syria
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week did not appear to resolve the two countries’ differing objectives in Syria, and it remains unclear if the status-quo can continue.
Russian...
Rolling Back Iranian Expansionism Means Contending With A Rising Russia
NSA McMaster is turning towards rolling back Iranian expansionism, now that ISIS appears to be nearly finished. What exactly the strategy will entail is not yet clear, but at the very least it should...
Russian probe asks if czar’s 1918 killing was ritual murder by Jews
MOSCOW (AP) - The head of a Russian Orthodox Church panel looking into the 1918 killing of Russia's last czar and his family said it is investigating whether it was a ritual murder - a statement...
Netanyahu to Putin: Iran want to take over Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, during which Netanyahu stated that Iran's growing role in Syria poses a threat to Israel, the Middle East and the world. Following...
New representative of ex-Soviet Jewry is billionaire once jailed in Putin’s Russia
Eight years after his release from wrongful imprisonment in Russia, the Israeli billionaire Mikhael Mirilashvili was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress Euro-Asian affiliate representing communities from Ukraine to Singapore.
Mirilashvili, who was released...
Putin compares America blaming Russia to ‘Anti-Semitism and blaming the Jews’
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday maintained the Russian government's innocence in the hacking of the U.S. presidential election by arguing that inventing IP addresses is so easy even a kid could do it....
National Museum of American Jewish History show about 1917 has violence, revolution, refugees
The United States enters a war overseas, and people are dying and fleeing their besieged lands.
Unrest ripples across Russia. Tensions brew in the Middle East.
Immigrants find themselves unwanted in America, targets of surveillance, arrest,...
Moscow Limmud sees record enrolment of 2,500
Attendance this year at the main event organised by Limmud FSU – an international organisation putting together Jewish events in the former Soviet Union — exceeded last year’s tally by 25 percent, organisers said...