After Rabin, why Israel’s Labor Party never recovered
By Ben Sales TEL AVIV (JTA) – The assassin’s bullet that killed former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago on Nov. 4 also…
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Justin Trudeau’s win is not likely to erode Canada’s support for Israel
By Josh Tapper TORONTO (JTA) — The election of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau as prime minister represents the first change in Canadian government since…
Domestic violence: The only safe place for battered Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
By Dvora Meyers (JTA) — Twenty years ago, when Noach Korman was starting out as a rabbinic lawyer in Jerusalem, a young woman pushing a…
How Jerusalem is coping with the attacks: Police and pepper spray
By Ben Sales JERUSALEM (JTA) — “No pepper spray, no tear gas, no nightsticks,” sighed Itzhak Mizrahi to three disappointed men, as if it were…
Kerry to Netanyahu and Abbas: Condemn violence, restore calm in Israel
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for efforts to restore calm in Israel during telephone conversations with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Kerry…