Jared Kushner might have a bigger hand in keeping tensions down with America’s southern neighbor than previously anticipated: According to reports, the White House senior adviser along with Mexico’s foreign minister rewrote sections of President Trump’s January speech on constructing a border wall in order to make it more conciliatory. Trump delivered his January address…
Most of Israeli society is not fully prepared for the possibility of peace between Israel and the neighboring Palestinian and other Arab nations. Although the vision and occasional programs of peace are being advocated by political organizations, peace movements and the international community, they fail to gain sustainable public acceptance. Israeli media channels constantly cover…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Until I watched second Presidential Debate, I didn’t like anything about Donald Trump. I am not a Republican. I believe in universal healthcare and I don’t think it’s a great idea to build a wall on the Mexican border. But…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. In March 2012, less than a year before his reelection, Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic assuring Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he just needed some space and time to comply with Russia’s requests to scale back missile…
JERUSALEM — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed the reconciliation agreement with Israel restoring diplomatic ties after a six-year freeze. Erdogan ratified the agreement on Wednesday. The Turkish Parliament approved the deal earlier this month before they left for a summer recess, after being delayed by the July 15 military coup attempt. Israel’s Knesset had approved the…
Israel and the Republic of Guinea, a predominantly Muslim nation in Africa, have renewed diplomatic relations after 49 years. Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Affairs ministry, the chief of staff of the Guinean President’s Office, Dr. Ibrahim Khalil Kaba, signed a joint statement on Wednesday in Paris announcing the renewal of ties. Guinea…
Alan Gross, who was imprisoned for five years in Cuba for his work connecting its Jewish community to the Internet, marked the one-year anniversary of his release pledging to advance warmer U.S.-Cuba ties. In a statement issued Wednesday, Gross thanked those who supported him while in prison and announced he will soon be a grandfather…
If there were one community in Israel most likely to support Israel’s recent war in Gaza, it would be the kibbutzim sitting right on the border with the Hamas-run territory. That’s where the mortars fell so quickly that there was little time to run for shelter, where Hamas fighters attempted to infiltrate the Israeli border…
דער דעקאַן פֿון איין שול האָט געמוזט אַרויסנעמען אַ צווייטע היפּאָטעק פֿאַר זײַן הויז, כּדי צו העלפֿן דעקן די שול־הוצאָות.
דאָס בוך נעמט אַרײַן דעם ייִדישן טעקסט, זײַן רוסישע איבערזעצונג און אַ קאָמענטאַר אויף ביידע שפּראַכן.
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