op/ed: Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks on the Holocaust explain why two-state solution is dying
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Donniel Hartman had some bad news for his audience on the largely liberal Upper West Side: The…
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Did Bibi make a case that Iran entered the nuclear deal in bad faith? and does it matter?
(JTA) — In 2016, Israel’s Mossad intelligence service broke into the anonymous Tehran building that housed Iran’s secret nuclear files and smuggled half a ton…
Does Natalie Portman’s snub of Netanyahu make her the face of liberal Zionism?
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Natalie Portman’s statement explaining why she declined to attend an award ceremony in Israel in her honor was a…
Separated by the Holocaust, old friends find each other 76 years later
By Gabrielle Birkner LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When Alice (Gerstel) Weit last saw Simon Gronowski, she was 13 and he was 10 and, by Alice’s recollection,…
Polish president says new Holocaust law will not silence survivors’ stories
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — On April 12, 2018 the presidents of Poland and Israel met in Oświęcim, near the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, where they…