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‘Land Day’ highlights Israel’s Arab dilemma

JERUSALEM — A mass demonstration by Israeli Arabs highlighted the core contradiction at the heart of the Israeli-Arab experience: demands for greater equality within...

US violated own anti-Iran sanctions; congressmen seek to enforce them

WASHINGTON — Rules without enforcement don’t mean much. That’s the new tone AIPAC and its supporters on Capitol Hill are taking when it comes to Iran sanctions. Last...

Obama doesn’t buy Bibi’s flow charts

WASHINGTON — For Benjamin Netanyahu, the formula for resolving US-Israeli tensions came in the form of a flow chart. The Israeli prime minister took the chart with him...

Many Jews mum on healthcare

By Jacob Berkman, JTA NEW YORK —— Several Jewish non-profit groups are lauding passage of healthcare reform legislation, saying it will benefit the community on a...

Barack, Bibi meet

WASHINGTON — The effort by US and Israeli leaders to move past recent tensions appeared no closer to resolution after three days of intensive talks. The White House...

In response to Obama’s criticism of Israel, Jews ask: What about incitement?

By Ami Eden, JTA NEW YORK —— In response to the Obama administration’s stepped-up criticism of Israeli building plans in Jerusalem, Jewish groups are slamming the...

Israel, US scrambling to limit damage

WASHINGTON — By the time this year’s AIPAC policy conference starts, its organizers — indeed, pretty much the entire Washington village inside a village that calls...

Internet guru silenced in Cuban jail

WASHINGTON — Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the...

Rabbi Weiss backs down on ‘rabba’

NEW YORK — On the eve of a conference marking the expansion of leadership roles for women within Orthodoxy, the trend’s most prominent rabbinic proponent has...

Big change on Armenian genocide

WASHINGTON — A key Jewish lawmaker urged passage of a resolution recognizing the Ottoman genocide against Armenians. The endorsement by US Rep. Howard Berman...