JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting with Ethiopian community leaders said he was committed to stopping racism. “I asked for this meeting because I am committed to the Ethiopian immigrant public," Netanyahu said at Wednesday's...
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli ad aimed at expatriates living in the U.S. that had come in for criticism by the American Jewish community has reappeared online and in an Israeli magazine. The ad, calling on Israelis living in the United States to return to Israel,...
WASHINGTON -- The window for Iran to resolve its differences with the West through diplomacy is shrinking, President Obama said. "They should understand that because the international community has applied so many sanctions, because we have employed...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 14, 2012
Paul Pillar, “We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran,” The Washington Monthly, March/April 2012 Matthew Kroenig and Colin H. Kahl, “Time to Attack Iran: A Debate,” video debate sponsored by the Council on Foreign Affairs, March 1, 2012 Matthew Kroenig,...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published March 14, 2012
Israeli journalist Avirama Golan, a senior correspondent for Haaretz newspaper, says a unilateral strike by Israel against Iran’s nuclear sites without the backing of the United States would be “unthinkable.” Golan, a veteran Israeli journalist...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 14, 2012
Now that the media hoopla around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington last week has died down, let’s take stock. Three areas of focus immediately come to mind: First, have President Barack Obama and Netanyahu established...
JERUSALEM—As southern Israel was barraged by rockets for a fourth straight day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was hitting back "strongly and decisively," and its Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was intercepting many of the rockets...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli artists and academics have called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent the deportation of refugees who came from South Sudan. The 400 writers, authors and musicians sent a petition to the prime minister Tuesday asking him...
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reiterating his policy of responding to Gaza violence, said that Israel "will find" whoever breaks the calm. "Our message is clear: Quiet will bring quiet. Whoever violates it or even tries to violate it...
JERUSALEM -- The journalist arrested in connection with an attack on an Israeli Embassy car in New Delhi reportedly was in touch with an Iranian intelligence officer and visited Iran before the attack. New Delhi Police will announce the breakthrough in...
SAN FRANCISCO -- When I learned of the murder of dozens of members of my family in the Holocaust and then met my Israeli relatives whose Auschwitz numbers could hardly be missed on their arms, I decided to dedicate my life to challenging war, the denial...
WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the Holocaust in his March 5 speech at AIPAC for the same reason that President Shimon Peres referred to it in his speech the day before and President Obama alluded to it in his news...
