Rabbi Yechezkel Besser, the “spiritual father” of the Polish Jewish revival, has died.Read More
The Israeli ambassador to Washington says his dispute with J Street is close to resolution and that the group was “much more in the mainstream.”Read More
Jewish and Israeli groups have signed on to a letter urging President Obama to press Israel to lift its closure of the Gaza Strip.Read More
A Conservative synagogue in Israel was burned.Read More
Elie Wiesel said he would not cry if the “pathologically sick” Iranian president was assassinated.Read More
A Jewish former banker was elected the vice president of Costa Rica.Read More
Israel’s interior minister has asked a Jerusalem municipal committee to consider legalizing a Jewish building in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood.Read More
North Korea and Iran are the countries posing the gravest threats to U.S. interests, Hillary Rodham Clinton said.Read More
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly has agreed in principle to hold indirect peace negotiations with Israel brokered by the United States.Read More
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