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…
Politics
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…
Holocaust-denying Professor Anthony Hall suspended without pay from U Lethbridge
(October 5, 2016) – B’nai Brith Canada is commending the University of Lethbridge for officially suspending Anthony Hall, a Globalization Studies professor who vocally supports Holocaust…
Saying goodbye to Shimon Peres, world leaders talk peace and love
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israeli and world leaders gathered atop Mount Herzl on Friday to say goodbye to Shimon Peres, Israel’s last founding…
Netanyahu, Israeli leaders mourn the loss of Shimon Peres
By JTA Staff JERUSALEM (JTA) — At a special session to mourn and honor Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli Cabinet that…