WASHINGTON (JTA) — Assistance to the Palestinians is one of the few areas that will remain untouched in planned massive cuts at the Trump administration’s State Department.Foreign Policy magazine on Monday posted 15 pages of proposed cuts it obtained...
(JTA) — Thousands of American Jews have signed a petition challenging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s invitation to President Donald Trump to deliver the keynote remarks at the National Day of Remembrance.Launched Monday by Bend the Arc, a Jewish...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s “possible” that the United States will not remain in the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump said.“I believe they have broken the spirit of the agreement,” Trump told The Associated Press. “There is a spirit...
President Donald Trump delivering a statement on Syria from his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Fla., April 6, 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)(JTA) — President Donald Trump described how “six million Jews had been brutally slaughtered,”...
NEW YORK (JTA) – President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress.Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of the WJC’s Plenary Assembly in New York City Sunday...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and deliver public remarks as part of the museum’s annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony.The ceremony will be held Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, a day after Holocaust Memorial...
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen speaking at a rally in Lille, March 26, 2017. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)(JTA) — President Donald Trump said the attack that killed a police officer in Paris would “probably help” French far-right...
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that President Donald Trump’s recent actions in the Middle East are “a welcome change.”Netanyahu said this during a meeting Friday with James Mattis during his first official visit to Israel...
Traditionally, most American presidential elections are not determined by voter concerns about foreign policy and which candidate can better keep America safe. To the extent that voters cast their ballots based on candidate issue-positions, as opposed...
Pieces in Tablet, The Forward and beyond this week took to task those activists who dipped their pens in the online poison inkwell to rip Modern Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein for agreeing to deliver an invocation at the Republican National Convention.As...
The idea of Donald Trump as a crusading standard bearer for ordinary Americans — working class and middle class folks justifiably fed up with getting the short end of America’s economic stick — has always struck me as odd, almost to the point of...
NEW YORK — A South Florida rabbi must leave his pulpit after his protest of Donald Trump’s speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference riled congregants.David Paskin, who serves as rabbi of the Conservative Temple Beth...
