Israeli firefighters said that a fire in a West Bank mosque appears to be arson; extremist Jews are suspected.Read More
Alan Dershowitz reportedly turned down an offer to serve as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.Read More
President Obama capped an intensive two weeks of administration make-nice with Israeli officials and the American Jewish community by hosting Elie Wiesel, the Nobel peace laureate and Holocaust memoirist, for lunch at the White House.Read More
Nufal Levanon, a 25-year-old student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, says she rarely heard Yiddish growing up, although her Romanian-born parents both were native speakers of the language.Read More
Robert Elman was elected president of the American Jewish Committee at the organization’s annual meeting.Read More
Delegates to a United Nations conference on nuclear proliferation walked out as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech, which attacked the United States and Israel.Read More
An Indian court found a Pakistani man guilty of murder and other offenses for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Read More
Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, a major figure in modern art, died at his home in Paris.Read More
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. A senior official told Haaretz that Netanyahu had recently asked the defense establishment and the National Security Council to elaborate on the so-called eight-points brief, which lists Israel’s security demands in terms of a permanent status agreement, as framed by Ehud Olmert’sRead More
Richard Goldstone attended his grandson’s bar mitzvah without protest.Read More
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