BY BRIANNA GOODLIN & DANIEL B. JEYDEL
• Published March 28, 2019
Before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stage at the AIPAC policy conference next week, he will have received a letter from hundreds of concerned millennial Jewish Zionists from across North America.As millennials on the frontlines of Israel...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published March 28, 2019
It was a day for Israelis to cheer the unprecedented degree of closeness between their nation and its sole superpower ally. Using his favorite form of communication, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted a clear intention to discard yet another longstanding...
BY LAURA E. ADKINS, JTA
• Published March 28, 2019
Gallup’s 2019 World Affairs Survey confirms something that’s held true for decades: Most American voters, whether Democrat or Republican, support and sympathize with Israel.Reading the report amid the national uproar over Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s...
President Donald Trump has had a dizzying week, even by his usual frenetic standards. Consider the following:• Attorney General William Barr released his summary of the key findings of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, ...
By Jonathan S. Tobin
• Published February 28, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s decision to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential race set off some alarm bells for the pro-Israel community.The Vermont Socialist is probably the most critical towards Israel of all the possible major contenders for the nomination....
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting concerning issues in the Middle East, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Feb. 20, 2018. Abbas is also the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization....
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 7, 2019
For more than two years, there has been an alarming spike in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric within far left factions of the Progressive movement. Such sentiment has placed great strains on the coalition of groups that make up the bulk of the Democratic...
Center for Israel Education
• Published January 24, 2019
Jan. 24, 1964: Syrian police arrest Eli CohenSyrian police arrest businessman Kamel Amin Tha’abet at his Damascus home and charge him with espionage. Tha’abet is actually Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who speaks Arabic with an authentic Syrian accent after...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published January 3, 2019
Australia’s decision to recognize “West” Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and its intention to move its embassy there managed to equally offend officials of the Israeli government as well as the Palestinian Authority—a rare agreement that amounts...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published December 13, 2018
The U.N. General Assembly narrowly defeated a resolution last Thursday that would have condemned Hamas for its terror campaign against Israel. Three days later, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a group of Jews waiting at a bus stop near the West Bank...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published December 13, 2018
Chamsim is Arabic for “sandstorm,” and that term is an apt metaphor for the always-roiling Middle East. Consider these major ongoing developments:• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, are in legal jeopardy. Israeli...
