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...
Palestinian Authority parliment member Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator with Arafat talks with the press before a meeting at the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah, West Bank on September 6, 2003. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images)
(JTA) — Saeb Erekat, the perpetually optimistic peace negotiator who forged close relationships with his Israeli counterparts and pressed until his final days for a two-state outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has died.Erekat, 65, died Tuesday...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published September 24, 2020
It might be tempting for Jews, who were among the millions that saw U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an American hero, to point to the Yiddish proverb, “Der mentsh trakht, un got lakht (man thinks and God laughs)” when considering...
Normally at this time of year, back-to-school angst begins to arrive, usually in the minds of students who are hardly eager for summer vacation to end.But nothing is normal in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. This year, the anxiety typically felt...
