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Setback for Hezbollah in Lebanon
Leslie Susser, JTAJun 12, 2009
JERUSALEM The outcome of Sundays Lebanese elections, in which the pro-Western alliance led by Saad Hariri eked out a narrow victory over the Hezbollah-led alliance,...
DU’s Farer to step down in 2010
Andrea JacobsJun 12, 2009
The controversial dean of DUs Graduate School of International Studies, who angered local Jews for his condemnation of Israels policies toward the Palestinians, will...
‘Iran, Hezbollah plotted embassy attack’ in Azerbaijan
Jerusalem PostJun 04, 2009
JERUSALEM A trial under way in Azerbaijan of two Hezbollah members and four Azeri collaborators accused of plotting an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Baku, has shed...
Chabad rabbi seeks to clarify incendiary words
Ben Harris, JTAJun 04, 2009
NEW YORK A prominent Chabad rabbi is seeking to clarify remarks in which he renounced Western morality and seemed to call on Israel to massacre Palestinian...
West Bank Jews fret Washington’s new tone
Dina Kraft, JTAJun 04, 2009
MODIIN ILLIT, West Bank Pushing a baby stroller and clutching her toddlers hand, Hanna Yadler walks through the shiny lobby of her new apartment building and...
Would the West miss Ahmadinejad?
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 04, 2009
WASHINGTON For several years Israel and pro-Israel groups have been holding up Irans president as a would-be Adolf Hitler. But with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad facing...
Jews oppose resolution expressing solidarity with Venezuelan Jews
Eric Fingerhut, JTAJun 04, 2009
WASHINGTON Jewish members of the US Congress opposing a resolution expressing solidarity with the Jewish community in another country is rare, perhaps unprecedented....
Is Obama betting on the wrong side? Abbas too weak to make peace
Leslie Susser, JTAJun 04, 2009
JERUSALEM As the US presses for progress in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, President Obama is redoubling Washingtons efforts to strengthen PA President Mahmud...
What didn’t happen in Bronx
Eric Fingerhut, JTAMay 28, 2009
WASHINGTON The arrest of four men accused of plotting to attack two Bronx synagogues underscores the threat to Jewish targets by individuals or small groups, several...
Iran is watching US reaction to nuclear test
Jerusalem PostMay 28, 2009
WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent Monday, May 25, engaged in intensive diplomacy concerning North Koreas reported nuclear test, according...