WASHINGTON (JTA) — Unqualified public expressions of support for Israel from President Joe Biden. The United States and other nations scrambling to protect Israel from rockets. Congress accelerating defense assistance to Israel.
When Iran attacked Israel on Saturday, it pulled Israel out of the isolation it was sinking into due to its war with Hamas. But if Israel chooses to strike Iran, it could renew tensions: According...
Israel military spokesmen and officials at the White House have confirmed that “dozens of drones” have been launched by Iran. Iranian officials also announced it had launched a first wave of ballistic missiles at Israel in response an Israeli drone attack on April 1 of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria that killed 16.
The Israel attack killed seven officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
(JTA) — The United States is barring government personnel and their families in Israel from traveling outside several major urban areas as warnings of an Iranian attack on the country grow more intense.
Concerns have mounted in recent days over Iran’s potential response to an alleged Israeli strike on an Iranian embassy building in Syria last week that killed several Iranian officials. Iran has vowed to retaliate,...
(JTA) — An Argentine court has ruled that Iran and Hezbollah were behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a landmark development in the reckoning over the antisemitic attack that may open the door to international legal action.
In a nearly 800-page ruling, the country’s highest criminal court said on Thursday that Iran directed the 1994 bombing of AMIA, which killed 85...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — After months of discussions and weeks of debate, the Yonkers City Council has tabled a Gaza ceasefire resolution that aimed to thread a narrow needle — calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war while also defending Israel’s right to exist.
The council announced that it would table the resolution at the start of the meeting Tuesday evening when it...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentina’s senate is on the brink of confirming President Javier Milei’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel: his personal rabbi, Shimon Axel Wahnish.
Wahnish, 42, has been close to Milei as the Catholic “anarcho-capitalist” made a meteoric rise to power and is widely understood to be responsible for Milei’s recent philosemitism, which shaped his candidacy and first months as president.
(JNS.org) – The Palestinians’ revived application for full membership at the United Nations appears to be dead on arrival.
Before the U.N. Security Council even began its meeting on Monday morning to discuss the application, Washington poured cold water all over their hopes.
“Our position is that the issue of full Palestinian membership is a decision that should be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians,” deputy U.S. ambassador to...
(JTA) – The editor-in-chief of the prestigious literary magazine Guernica whose decision to publish an Israeli writer’s essay about the war in Gaza last month led to the mass resignation of the magazine’s staff has herself resigned from the publication, saying she disagreed with the decision to retract the essay.
Jina Moore announced her resignation in a blog post on Friday, nearly a month after Guernica retracted...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that how the United States deals with Israel’s war with Hamas depends on what Israel does to mitigate dangers for aid workers and for humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip.
Within hours, Israel loosened controls on humanitarian aid entering the enclave.
Biden’s 30-minute call on Thursday with Netanyahu, their first since March 18, came three days...
(JTA) — The celebrity chef behind the nonprofit whose aid workers were killed in an IDF strike on Tuesday is appealing to Israel, and the Jewish people, to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
In an op-ed published simultaneously Wednesday in Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli newspaper, and The New York Times, World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres laments the killings and names the seven workers who...
