At top Israeli university, students favor the least flawed candidate in US election
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) – As Americans prepare to elect their next president, Israelis are watching. Students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one…
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Will Obama launch a lame-duck Israel surprise? Not likely.
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – It started several months ago in anxious whispers among pro-Israel leaders. Now it has burst into the open in…
With UNESCO vote, Palestinian bid for attention backfires
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — If the latest draft resolution at UNESCO on “Occupied Palestine” succeeded in the Palestinians’ aims to reclaim the world’s attention, then…
Muslim and Jewish religious leaders denounce violence in historic Israeli Palestinian meeting
(Jerusalem, October 13) — In the first event of its kind, top Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Muslim religious leaders – including one of Israel’s chief…
Biden, remembering Peres, pleads for triumph of tolerance over bigotry
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Joe Biden said Shimon Peres’ legacy should be one of tolerance at a time of rising bigotry….