Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday said that he wanted to focus on “substance” and not “labels,” when asked about support for a two-state solution for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. “Rather than deal with labels, I want to deal with substance,” Netanyahu said during a news conference with President Donald Trump at the…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would work to bring about peace between Israel and Palestinians, but it would be up to the parties themselves ultimately to reach an agreement. “The United States will encourage a peace and really a great peace deal,” Trump said during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
President Trump pointedly acknowledged the Jewish nature of the Holocaust in a Wednesday press conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an about-face from a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that omitted mention of Jews. “The state of Israel is a symbol to the world of resilience in the face of oppression,” the president said…
Lee Zeldin, Congress’ lone Jewish Republican, has canceled an April town hall event, after protesters disrupted a recent appearance of his at a Long Island, New York rotary club. “This meeting was co-opted, renamed and re-branded by a group of liberal activists who were already holding strategy meetings to turn it into a disruptive show…
Israel awarded its highest honor today, the Israel Prize, to 96-year-old Agnes Keleti, who survived the Holocaust to become an Olympics gold medal gymnast. Born in Hungary, Keleti immigrated in Israel in 1957. A founder of Israeli gymnastics, she worked in the field for more than 50 years, Haaretz reported. She survived the Holocaust by…
(JTA) — CIA director Mike Pompeo reportedly met secretly with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the P.A. headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The meeting was held Tuesday, The Associated Press reported, citing two unnamed senior officials. The White House and the CIA declined to comment to the AP. The talks came…
Shmaltz Brewing Co said on Wednesday it has settled a lawsuit in which California’s Sutter Home Winery Inc accused it of infringing its “Menage a Trois” trademark by selling 12-packs of beer carrying the “MANNAge a Trois” name. Shmaltz, whose beers include the He’Brew line, said “the parties have amicably resolved the dispute to their…
In the hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Trump, Jewish groups are mostly staying mum on a statement from the White House that could signal an historic shift in U.S. policy. An unnamed White House official told reporters that the Trump administration was not necessarily committed to a two-state solution to…
It was a nightmare at 20,000 feet Monday, as an ultra-Orthodox Jewish clan traveling to a wedding in Britain disrupted a flight. The Hasidic men refused to sit next to women, stood up in the aisles while the plane was in the air and disturbed passengers during the five-hour flight. “They were blocking the aisle,…
Dan Shapiro, former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel, isn’t keeping quiet now that he’s out of office, predicting chaos as that country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House on Wednesday. It is, he told Politico, “an absolutely crazy time to hold a meeting with the president of the United States,” citing President…
(JTA) – Jews are the most warmly regarded religious group in America, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. It was the second time in a row that Jews topped the survey, in which respondents rate how they feel about various religious groups on a “feeling thermometer.” On the scale of 1…
