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
The student government at the University of California, Berkeley fell a vote short in a bid to override a veto against a divestment bill.Read More
Lawyers for the reporter who received top secret Israeli army documents from a former soldier will turn them over to security officialsRead More
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