Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, met with Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday in Riyadh, according to sources familiar with the matter, Axios reported.
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Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet President Donald Trump at the White House next week, a date that would make the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be invited to Trump’s residence since he retook office.
Netanyahu’s office announced...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 28, 2025
The podcast "How to Destroy Everything" is coming home to St. Louis for a one-night event. Jewish St. Louisans Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky, who created the podcast, will be featured in a live show at STL Stylehouse at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13....
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Witkoff will reportedly discuss advancing an agreement to normalize relations between Israel...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published January 27, 2025
In a move everyone saw coming, the Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan-teased When Harry Met Sally reunion is not a sequel but a Super Bowl spot. But just in case you thought the mature versions of the two lovebirds were pitching something like a new karaoke machine...
Akiva Van Koningsveld, JNS
• Published January 27, 2025
Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy, on Sunday described the ceasefire deal he helped broker between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization as “the most worthy thing I could ever do in my life.”
Speaking alongside Israeli...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 27, 2025
“I will cherish this deeply.”
Those were the words of David Yawitz on Sunday, Jan. 26, after he was presented with a proclamation honoring another Yawitz—First Lieutenant Frank Yawitz, who died in combat during World War II. David Yawitz, 85,...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 26, 2025
In a fraught moment in the film “A Real Pain,” Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go on a roots tour of Poland, berates his fellow travellers for riding in a first-class train car in a country where so many Jews...
Elon Musk praised the right-wing Alternative for Germany party and suggested there’s “too much focus on past guilt” of Germans, during an address he gave on Saturday using a remote video stream at an AfD gathering in Halle.
“I’m very excited...
President Donald Trump says he has asked Jordan to accept Palestinians from Gaza and plans to press Egypt to do the same.
Trump said he spoke to Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday, five days after being inaugurated for his second term and six...
President Donald Trump will allow the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, removing a hold his predecessor, Joe Biden, had placed on the ordnance.
The change comes during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Trump played a key role in brokering....
Ten Jewish professionals and one lay leader will be honored at the 20th Annual JProStl Recognition Event on Thursday, March 6. The event will take place in the gymnasium of the Staenberg Family Complex at the Jewish Community Center from 11:30 a.m. –...
