WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump White House is throwing an in-person Hanukkah party, one of a series of recent events the administration has held despite coronavirus concerns.The reception will be held Dec. 9 in the afternoon, a day before the holiday’s...
(JTA) — The Palestinian Authority has resumed security and financial ties with Israel, in part because its leaders believe a Biden presidency will bring Palestinians back into the peacemaking fold.Israel will now resume funneling taxes to the Palestinian...
(JTA) — The statement by the University of Illinois pledging to fight anti-Semitism and co-signed by several Jewish organizations left out one crucial piece of information: The federal government had just opened an investigation of the school for anti-Semitic...
"Every year there are new documentaries," said “Valley of Tears” co-creator Amit Cohen. "But nothing has the same visceral effect that this show has." (Courtesy of HBO Max)
In this screenshot from the livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the virtual convention in a prerecorded video from Jerusalem, Aug. 25, 2020. (The Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Douglas Macgregor, a top adviser to President Donald Trump’s new acting defense secretary, routinely blames “the Israeli lobby” and “neocons” for pushing the United States into wars.Trump last week in the wake of his loss...
(JTA) — Israel’s government has signed an agreement with the Pfizer pharmaceutical company to acquire 8 million doses of its vaccine.“This is a great day for the State of Israel and a great day on the way to our victory over the coronavirus,”...
(JTA) — One of the latest political disputes in Israel is happening in an unlikely place — the national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. News emerged in August that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies are hoping to appoint a former...
(JTA) — Ice Cube, Jon Voight and Miriam Adelson are just a few of the speakers set to headline the annual gala of the Zionist Organization of America in December.The dinner will be held virtually.Ice Cube, the rapper and actor known for being a member...
(JTA) — Mike Pompeo is planning to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement, the first time a secretary of state will have made such a visit.For the visit during the Trump administration’s lame-duck period, he has chosen a settlement that is home to...
How much of a say, if any, should Diaspora Jews have in Israeli affairs?This perennial question, debated often in op-eds and speeches, as well as at Jewish conferences, always has been somewhat ephemeral.But proposed Knesset legislation that would give...
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Tuesday that for him “there is no difference if it’s a Republican or Democratic administration.”“What I see before my eyes is not Democrats and not Republicans. It is just the state...
