JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt, amid major unrest in the country, has moved troops and armored vehicles to the Sinai-Gaza border area in coordination with Israel.
The movement on Tuesday comes as the Egyptian military issued an ultimatum to Egyptian President...
Palestinian Authority officials have adopted the questionable norm of refusing to meet with Israeli or Jewish journalists, according to veteran journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, in a recent article published by Gatestone Institute.
According to Toameh, Palestinian journalists who try to...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The coming weeks could decide the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said during a tour of Arab states on his way to attempt to broker new peace talks.
(JTA) — B’nai B’rith International disassociated itself from an article critical of Gilad Shalit published in a Canadian Jewish newspaper closely associated with B’nai Brith Canada.
In anticipation of Shalit’s four-city visit to Canada in September, the Jewish Tribune criticized...
JERUSALEM (JNS.org) — Within the past year, three student-run legislative bodies at University of California (UC) state schools—UC Berkeley, UC Irvine and UC San Diego—passed resolutions urging divestment from Israel. These votes occurred amid allegations of the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry employees has caused a halt to consular services at Israeli embassies and consulates in the United States and around the world.
“Due to a strike of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A section of a 1,800-year-old ancient road from the Roman period running from Jerusalem to Jaffa was uncovered in northern Jerusalem.
The road was discovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Israeli-Arab neighborhood of...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An international organ trafficking ring that sold kidneys to patients in Israel and Eastern Europe was broken up by Costa Rica police and Interpol.
The ring also worked with Israeli doctors who have not yet been named,...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rabbi Shmuel Pappenheim of the haredi Orthodox organization Eda Haharedit shares little common ground with Reform Rabbi Uri Regev, a religious pluralism activist.
But when news broke last week that Israel’s Ashkenazi chief...
