‘I love every square meter of this country’: Jim Carr, Manitoba Jewish MP, dies at 71
by Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Jim Carr was close to death from myeloma, a blood cancer, when he gave one of his last interviews to…
Politics
An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — The recent Israeli elections, the fifth in less than four years, returned Benjamin Netanyahu to the driver’s seat for the…
Volodymyr Zelensky named Time’s ‘person of the year’
by Caleb Guedes-Reed, Gabe Friedman (JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish president of Ukraine, was named Time’s “person of the year” on Wednesday for galvanizing…
Abe Foxman: If Smotrich and Ben-Gvir get their way, Israel will lose me and American Jews
by Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Abe Foxman, the past Anti-Defamation League leader who long has said that nothing could separate him from support for Israel,…
Lapid concedes to Netanyahu, prepares to hand over reins of government
by Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid called his rival, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to concede this week’s election as most…