Marvin Hier says he’s ‘proud’ to be Trump’s inauguration rabbi
By Gabrielle Birkner LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Rabbi Marvin Hier has known Charles and Seryl Kushner — Jared Kushner’s parents and Donald Trump’s in-laws — for…
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Campaign rhetoric and post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into the fray
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) – In the two months since the presidential election, American scholars and curators of Jewish history have sent a…
Israel’s top security experts redraw West Bank map for the Trump era
By Andrew Tobin TEL AVIV (JTA) – Israel’s leading security think tank has published a plan to redraw the map of the West Bank in a…
Blaming Obama doesn’t advance the cause of Middle East peace
By Rick Jacobs (JTA) — What did Secretary of State John Kerry say this week that caused former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren…
Netanyahu ‘deeply disappointed’ in Kerry’s speech, rejects UN vote
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a policy speech by Secretary of State John Kerry, saying the emphasis by the United Nations and…