The Israeli Prime Minister's Office denied that Benjamin Netanyahu told the editor of The Jerusalem Post that Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz. On Wednesday, the editor, Steve Linde, addressing a conference in Tel Aviv...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz, the editor of The Jerusalem Post said in a speech. Steve Linde, addressing a conference in Tel Aviv of the Women's International Zionist...

WASHINGTON -- Jewish federation officials excoriated a top Israeli official for reports of official discrimination against women and for a law targeting NGOs. The official spoke in a conference call with constituents of the Jewish Federations of North...

A Jewish man from Manhattan was arrested for making anti-Semitic phone calls to his mother and other women, and is suspected of painting anti-Semitic graffiti in Brooklyn. David Haddad, 56, was arrested Sunday for making anti-Semitic phone calls including...

The United States relayed a message to Iran that blocking the Strait of Hormuz would be a "red line," the New York Times reported. The newspaper reported Friday that there is considerable skepticism in the Obama administration and among the military that...

Nov. 6-12 is Media Literacy Week, during which we are urged to focus on how we view, process and react to news and information.  Groups like the local Gateway Media Literacy Partners (www.gmlpstl.org) promote the importance of critical reading skills...

In the Book of Enoch, a second century BCE Jewish Apocrypha, the Behemoth (who is also referenced in the Book of Job) is the land monster and Leviathan the sea monster (there's also Ziz, the sky monster, but we'll save him for another day).Last week on...

Do you expect your news sources (Jewish or otherwise) to have integrity? It seems like a simple question, doesn't it? If news outlets represent our source of facts on the happenings of individuals and institutions, then we would like to think that they...

In Texas Hold ‘Em parlance, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has gone all in. In his Monday opinion piece in the New York Times, Abbas has said to the world that the future of Israel doesn't matter one iota. In essence, he's proven that...

New York, NY - The American Jewish Committee is a global advocacy organization that has long been committed to achieving a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a two-state accord.In that effort, we have met countless times...

WASHINGTON — It was the latest dustup over what constitutes acceptable discourse in the American Jewish community when it comes to Israel. Except this time the battle wasn't contained within the community, but began at a university board meeting and...