Hamas, natural gas and other good reasons Israel and Turkey should stick together
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Turkey ought to be friends, geopolitically speaking. As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put it in January: “Israel…
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Citing their core beliefs, 40 Orthodox clergy condemn Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’
(JTA) — Forty American Orthodox clergy co-signed a letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for what they called his “hateful rhetoric and intolerant policy…
A Cautionary Tale: BDS Tears Apart the Green Party
by Steve McDonald (EJNews) – In early August, the Green Party of Canada voted at its national convention to endorse Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) measures against segments…
Poll: Most Israelis, Palestinians oppose current bilateral peace plan
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Most Israelis and Palestinians oppose the kind of peace deal that has been under negotiation in the past, a…
op/ed: To heal divisions among the Jewish people, divide the land
By Gilead Sher and Robert Mnookin (JTA) — “If there is something that deprives me of sleep it is the fissures in Israeli society,” former…