JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky was given a green light by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue his plan for a permanent egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall.
Netanyahu told Sharansky to continue reviewing the...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the city’s hospitals faced a harrowing scene — severed limbs, burned bodies, shrapnel buried...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli gymnast Alexander Shatilov won a gold medal in the men’s floor exercise final at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow.
Shatilov shared the first-place podium on Saturday with Max Whitlock of Britain.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Israel, where he is scheduled to discuss a major arms deal and the Iran situation with Israeli leaders.
Hagel following his arrival late Sunday morning visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress he sees a maximum two-year window to bring about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kerry delivered his remarks Wednesday to a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli college opened a journalism institute named for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The Daniel Pearl International Journalism Institute, part of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, was launched...
