BY ABBY ABRAMS, SENIOR, LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL
• Published April 13, 2011
I am involved in JAM (Jews and Muslims), a teen dialogue group sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). We meet twice a month to discuss religious and cultural topics as well as current events. When I first started participating in...
NCSY is welcoming Sgt. Benjamin Anthony (IDF Res) for a discussion of "Hope in the Midst of War" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11 in the Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Sgt. Anthony, of Our Soldiers Speak, will speak with...
JERUSALEM — Israel was prepared to extend a West Bank construction freeze, but the United States withdrew the idea, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "The United States asked us to consider extending the freeze by three months, and the...
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu said he'd present to his Cabinet an expected U.S. offer of incentives to freeze Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. After meeting last week in New York with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for seven...
JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Israeli plans to build additional housing in eastern Jerusalem is counterproductive to peace talks. Clinton made the statement Wednesday during a joint video conference with Palestinian...
JERUSALEM - If the United States doesn't attack Iran's nuclear facilities within the next eight months or so, Israel probably will. So says journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in the September issue of The Atlantic magazine in an article that is fueling debate...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 18, 2010
An expert on Israel and the Middle East says he is hopeful that face-to-face talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be announced soon and that the campaign to de-legitimize Israel through boycotts, divestments and sanctions requires a...
JERUSALEM — Israel will protest a U.S. travel advisory -- in the wake of rocket attacks on Eilat and Akaba -- that does not mention Jordan. Tourism Minister Stas Meseznikov told reporters that he will meet with the U.S. ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham,...
JERUSALEM — In one of the more curious twists in Israeli politics, prominent figures on Israel's right wing have begun pushing for a one-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians as equal citizens with full voting rights. The one-state solution...
