After its latest strike on Syria, Israel’s cozy relationship with Russia could be over
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Israel attacked Syria on Monday, just like it (reportedly) has countless times before. The difference now is that Russia is…
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Israel at 70: How 1948 changed American Jews
By Ben Sales (JTA) — One year after Israel’s establishment, in the dead of night, three students ascended a tower at the Jewish Theological Seminary…
Deaths on Gaza border hand Hamas a PR victory and Israel an angry internal debate
By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA) — When the smoke from the rifles of Israeli sharpshooters and the firebombs thrown by Gaza Palestinians cleared in the…
‘We march today because it’s what we have to do to sleep tonight’: Jewish students on the March for Our Lives
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — The organizers of the March for Our Lives, almost all of them under 20, had a gun control agenda…
What does Mike Pompeo as secretary of state mean for Israel and the Jews?
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Like the rest of the world, Rex Tillerson got the news of his firing on Twitter. “Thank you to…