WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but emphasized that he was not pre-empting negotiations over the final status of the city.
“It is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but will not open an embassy there for years, and will reassure Palestinians that his recognition does not impinge on their claims to the city.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he intends to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, Abbas’s office said.
“POTUS called to brief President Mahmoud Abbas on his intention to move...
Raised in New Orleans’ Jewish orphanage in the early 20th century, Bessie Margolin defied her underprivileged background to become a pioneering lawyer who championed workers’ rights before the Supreme Court, as well as...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, including about his efforts to stave off a U.N. Security Council resolution opposed by Israel.
Surrounded by sports figures who demonstrated their athletic prowess on American fields of green and atop courts of woods, Mike Wagenheim has led an entire life of serendipity. Along the way, the award-winning...
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out”)
While the Jazz Age produced headlines that proved titillating and provocative, none captured the nation’s attention more than the thrill-seeking murder of an innocent 14-year-old by two Jewish college graduates, Nathan Leopold...
Israel’s influential ultra-Orthodox contingency is threatening democracy in the country, Yizhar Hess, the chief executive of the Conservative Judaism movement in Israel, said at a talk on Wednesday, November 15 at Shir Chadash...
In the mid-1800s, when the then-superpowers of Great Britain and France were amassing their vast overseas empires and hungrily swallowing up the smaller enclaves of Southeast Asia, only one of those nations...
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“)
There is no doubt that Neil Simon is one of the great Jewish comedic geniuses in American theatre. With an innate understanding of what is funny, steeped in his early days as...
