Israel
What’s the magic in the Israel-India relationship?
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — Barefoot walks on the beach, warm hugs, lots of mutual admiration, hesitant attempts to speak each other’s language. And giggles. The bromance between...
Denver’s Rabbi Gerson is on Rabbinate ‘blacklist’
Andrea JacobsJul 13, 2017
Bernard Gerson, spiritual leader of Denver’s Conservative Rodef Shalom, discovered on Facebook that his name appears on the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s blacklist....
New controversy from Israel: ‘Blacklist’
Ben Sales, JTAJul 13, 2017
NEW YORK — Some 160 rabbis, including several American Orthodox leaders, appear on a list of rabbis whom Israel’s Chief Rabbinate does not trust to confirm the...
UNESCO to vote on whether Machpelah is Jewish
JNSJul 06, 2017
By Alex Traiman An upcoming vote by the United Nations cultural body UNESCO on whether to declare Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs as an endangered Palestinian heritage...
First visit to Israel by PM of India
JTAJul 06, 2017
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to Israel, calling his visit “historic.” Modi arrived in Israel on...
Ehud Olmert granted early release
JTAJul 06, 2017
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin lifted all parole restrictions on former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who left prison on early release this week....
Controversy over Kotel
Ben Sales, JTAJun 29, 2017
NEW YORK — American Jewish leaders are calling it a betrayal. They say that 17 months after achieving a historic agreement to provide a non-Orthodox space at...
Israel’s response to mortar fire deemed ‘old policy’
Adam Abrams, JNSJun 29, 2017
JERUSALEM — Mortar shells fired from Syria into the Israeli Golan Heights Saturday, June 24, prompted the IDF to respond with a retaliatory strike in Syria,...
NFL Hall of Famers in Israel
Hillel Kuttler, JTAJun 22, 2017
RAMAT HASHARON, Israel — An Israeli soldier clapped football great and Vietnam War veteran Roger Staubach on the shoulder at a soccer field here, telling the 1963...
A decade of Hamas rule in Gaza
JNSJun 22, 2017
JERUSALEM — Long before ISIS first grabbed international attention in 2014 through its brutal conquests in Iraq and Syria, another terrorist organization had already...
