Disagreements behind them, Obama and Netanyahu get down to business
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – It took agreeing to set aside differences on Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime…
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Canada to reprise role as ‘honest broker’ in Mideast, new foreign affairs minister says
TORONTO (JTA) — Canada’s just-elected Liberal government will stop making Israel a partisan issue, the country’s new foreign affairs minister said. Stephane Dion, a former…
Netanyahu congratulates Canada’s Trudeau amid expected ‘tone change’
TORONTO (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Canada’s prime minister designate, Justin Trudeau, in a telephone call affirming the friendship between the two…
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…
Rabbi Kliel Rose: Canadian politics – A time for reflection and reconciliation
by Rabbi Kliel Rose (Edmonton) – The Talmud derives the principle of judging others favourably from a verse in Leviticus (19:15): “In righteousness shall you judge your fellow”…