Where the Obama-Netanyahu relationship went wrong
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – When David Axelrod, then a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, first learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
International
May, 2015
Child Holocaust survivors get first payment from new Claims Conference Fund
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Claims Conference sent out payments totaling about $60 million in a single day last week – the first of an…
President Barack Obama: I have same high expectations of Israel as I do of U.S.
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Barack Obama has a message for American Jews: I don’t shy away from disagreeing with Israel publicly, because…
1 in 6 American Jews are new to Judaism – and 9 other new Pew findings
By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) – The Pew Research Center’s newly released 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study offers a trove of data on American…