WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s announced trip to Israel, at the height of his campaign to wrest the presidency from Barack Obama, could be a twofer, drawing closer two critical constituencies: evangelicals and foreign policy hawks. A Romney campaign official...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican Jewish Coalition is sending two of its top officials to Israel to rally for expatriate votes. The voter registration drive led by Ari Fleischer, the press secretary during the George W. Bush presidency and an RJC board member,...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney told donors attending his campaign's Utah retreat that he is briefed on the Middle East by Israeli government officials. About 50 of the 700 donors who attended the retreat this weekend in Park City were Jewish, according to...

NEW YORK -- Education is the key to success -- a "silver bullet" for changing lives in all segments of society. An affordable, quality college education must be available to all, not just the wealthy. Horace Mann, the renowned innovator in public education,...

WASHINGTON—President Obama enjoys the support of three-fifths of American Jews, according to the latest American Jewish Committee survey, a significant improvement over where he stood half a year ago in the organization’s polling.The poll, released...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them is the sharp-edged rhetoric and departures from past U.S. policy on the Middle East. Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to strike Iran and his suggestion that West Bank Palestinians...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney handily won the Illinois primary, consolidating his status as frontrunner in the race for the GOP presidential contest. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, won 47 percent of the vote with 98 percent of votes counted in...

WASHINGTON -- Rick Santorum was projected to sweep two southern states in Republican primaries, all but burying Newt Gingrich's chance for the nomination and complicating Mitt Romney's status as frontrunner. Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator...

WASHINGTON -- Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy said Mitt Romney's gibes at President Obama's Iran policy were irresponsible. "This means to an Iranian, if you will wait until another few months and there is a change in the White House, then maybe there...

WASHINGTON -- Super Tuesday Republican primaries were a race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, Republicans selected a Jewish veteran for Ohio's senate run, and Dennis Kucinich lost his bid for reelection. Ten states went to the polls Tuesday in...

WASHINGTON -- Republican candidates addressing AIPAC’s policy conference focused their addresses on what they said were the Obama administration’s failures to head off a nuclear Iran. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, Rick Santorum...