“We should have a Plan B,” said Oded Eran, director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, who led Israel’s negotiating team … Read More »
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Turkish Action Film Depicts Confrontation With Israel
The real story, he said, is about how Simone, an American tour guide and daughter of Jewish parents, comes to understand “the truth” about Palestine as the … Read More »
Israeli Peace Effort Rests on Netanyahu’s Shoulders
JERUSALEM — David Rubinger, one of Israel’s best-known photojournalists and a man firmly on the political left, cast his ballot last year … Read More »
Stop the War Talk
Israel’s only option is a pre-emptive strike, like the ones it carried out against nuclear reactors in Iraq and Syria. It is only a matter of time. … Read More »
A Peace Plan Within Our Grasp
During my career in the Egyptian Air Force, I saw the tragic toll of war between the Arabs and Israel . As president of Egypt, I have endured many ups and … Read More »
Rosh Hashana Recipes Routed Through Africa
For the Jews of France, holiday dishes often hold the flavors of North Africa rather than Eastern Europe. Read More »
In Israel , Settling for Less
The relations between Herzl’s movement and Jewish Orthodoxy were uneasy from the start. After all, the Zionist movement sought to achieve by human means … Read More »
In Germany, Uproar Over Remark on Jewish Genes
His remarks, given in interviews to the newspapers Welt am Sonntag and Berliner Morgenpost, were condemned by leading members of the Jewish and Turkish … Read More »
Sermon and Actors’ Protest Stoke Tensions in Israel
JERUSALEM — Israel was in an uproar on Sunday over a refusal by Israeli theater artists to perform in West Bank Jewish settlements, … Read More »
Black and Jewish , and Seeing No Contradiction
“They are strengthening their blackness through Judaism,” said Asher Rison, 62, a black Jew who lives in the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn, … Read More »
Netanyahu Seeks Regular Meetings With Abbas, Official Says
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he hoped the peace negotiations that begin next week would include meetings … Read More »
Islamic Center Also Challenges a Young Builder
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times The developer Sharif el-Gamal says the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan inspired his planned Muslim center. … Read More »
Prosecutors Had Backup Charge in Synagogue Bomb Case, Defense Says
Worried that an investigation was going cold, a special agent in charge of a case in which four people were later accused of plotting to … Read More »
California: Nazi Papers Turned Over to Archives
By AP Documents that historians say laid the groundwork for the execution of Jews during the Holocaust were turned over to the National Archives on … Read More »
In Synagogue Bomb Case, F.B.I. Handler Testifies
An F.B.I. agent who worked with an informant took the witness stand against four men from Newburgh, N.Y., charged with a terrorist conspiracy. Read More »
Trial in Synagogue Bomb Case Opens With Clashing Images of 4 Defendants
… men picked up inert bombs supplied by Mr. Hussain and dropped them off in front of two synagogues, the Riverdale Temple and the Riverdale Jewish Center. … Read More »
Israel : Arabic to Be Taught to Fifth-Graders
The study of Arabic will be compulsory for fifth-grade students in Jewish public schools under a pilot project starting in September, … Read More »
Ship Postpones Aid Mission Set for Gaza
Cyprus’s refusal came after Israel said it would use force against the vessel. On May 31, Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish activists aboard a ship that … Read More »
US Weighs Tough Choice Over Aid for Lebanon
That led some Israel -friendly members of Congress to question the usefulness of aiding Lebanon’s military. When the border skirmish took place this month, … Read More »
Oy Vey, Obama
President Obama’s firm stance with Israel and his courting of the Muslim world has caused many Jews to switch their allegiances from Democrats to Republicans. Read More »
Natural Gas Deposits Improve Israel’s Energy Outlook
Several months after the report, another field of 8.7 trillion cubic feet was found off Israel and a second, twice that size, was detected and is thought to … Read More »
US Assures Israel That Iran Threat Is Not Imminent
Administration officials said they believe the assessment has dimmed the prospect that Israel would pre-emptively strike against the country’s nuclear … Read More »
Israelis and Palestinians to Resume Talks, Officials Say
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce Friday that Israel and the Palestinians will return to direct … Read More »
U.S. Persuades Israel That Iran’s Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent
The Obama administration has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year for Iran to complete a nuclear weapon, according to American officials. Read More »
U.N. Report Criticizes Israel’s Gaza Restrictions
A new study asserts that Israel has never clearly told those living in Gaza where they may and may not live and operate. Read More »
US Is Said to Assure Israel a Nuclear Iran Isn’t Imminent
Administration officials said they believe the assessment has dimmed the prospect that Israel would pre-emptively strike against the country’s nuclear … Read More »
Report Criticizes Gaza Restrictions
For most of that time, it was a mix of citrus orchards and plump cows, and the family made a handsome living selling its products to Israel , Jordan and the … Read More »
New UN Report Criticizes Jumble of Gaza Restrictions
For most of that time, it was a mix of citrus orchards and plump cows, and the family made a handsome living selling its products to Israel , Jordan and the … Read More »
Israel : Turkish Embassy Break-In
A West Bank Palestinian who once collaborated with Israel’s Shin Bet security service and said he was being persecuted by the Palestinian … Read More »
Lebanon: Hezbollah Dossier to Tribunal
By AP Lebanon on Tuesday gave a United Nations tribunal material provided by Hezbollah to press its claim that Israel was linked to the 2005 assassination … Read More »
Israel : Ex-Soldier Speaks on Photos
A former Israeli soldier who posted photographs on Facebook of herself posing next to blindfolded Palestinian prisoners told Israeli Army … Read More »
Israel Wins Tae Kwon Do Gold After Iranian Athlete Withdraws
Alex Gilady, an International Olympic Committee member from Israel who handed out the medals for the competition, said it was a tactic by Iran to avoid … Read More »
Iran Accused of Playing Politics With Withdrawal vs. Israel
By AP Iran withdrew from a tae kwon do final against Israel at the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore on Sunday, the same day Iran’s girls soccer team … Read More »
6 Migrants Are Killed in Egypt
African migrants seeking work or asylum in Israel use the Sinai Peninsula as a transit route, and smugglers use it to ferry drugs and weapons into Israel and a variety of goods into the Gaza Strip. Read More »
Gravestone Removals Add Fuel to Jerusalem Museum Dispute
The area in question is in West Jerusalem, a predominantly Jewish area next to a contested site where the Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning a branch … Read More »
From Jewish Roots in Brooklyn, a Sizzling Salsa Star
But for more than 40 years now, Mr. Harlow has been affectionately known in the Latin music world as “El Judío Maravilloso” (“the marvelous Jew ”), … Read More »
Jerusalem Quandary: A Cemetery or a Parking Lot?
The area in question is in predominantly Jewish West Jerusalem next to a contested site where the Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning a branch devoted to … Read More »
Suspect in Hamas Killing Freed by Germany
“He can return to Israel if he wants to,” said Rainer Wolf, the spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in the western city of Cologne. … Read More »
Exploring the Israel -Palestine Standoff
There is tension, but not much violence; the most vexing of Soraya’s challenges, as it turns out, is coming face to face with a liberal Jewish peacenik. Read More »
Exploring the Israel-Palestine Standoff
Annemarie Jacirs drama Salt of This Sea, about a Brooklyn woman who travels to the West Bank and Israel to recover her roots not to mention her Palestinian grandfathers house and bank account, lost in the 1948 war is a sad and engrossing look at a haunted landscape. Read More »
Mideast Peace Talks
11), calling for direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, asserts that “after three months of American-mediated proximity talks,” Prime Minister … Read More »
Bruce M. Cohen, Rabbi Who Promoted Peace, Dies at 65
Rabbi Cohens organization, Interns for Peace, has brought together hundreds of Israeli Jews and Arabs in activities in the past 34 years. Read More »
Steal This Movie
Eldar puts out an appeal on Israel TV and within hours an Israeli Jew whose own son was killed during military service donates all the money. … Read More »
Tony Judt, Chronicler of History, Is Dead at 62
There he lost faith in the Zionist mission and began to see Israel as a malign occupying power whose self-definition as a Jewish state, he later argued, … Read More »
Conversions in Israel : The Chief Rabbi’s View
Israeli laws should be determined by residents of Israel who defend its security and bear its burdens. If our Jewish brethren immigrate to Israel , … Read More »
Holocaust Documentary Will Retain R Rating
The R rating for the Holocaust documentary “A Film Unfinished” will stand, an appeals board ruled on Thursday, … Read More »
Israel : Turkish Boat Heads Home
Israel’s Defense Ministry said it would release two more Turkish vessels that were part of the flotilla. A version of this brief appeared in print on August … Read More »
Turkey and Israel Do a Brisk Business
ISTANBUL — Israeli business executives here like to point out that most of the angry Turks who protested Israel’s deadly raid on a … Read More »
Turkey and Israel Do a Brisk Business
Despite their strained politics, business between Turkey and Israel continues apace, albeit discreetly. Read More »
Beneath Simmering Relations, Turkey and Israel Do a Brisk Business
ISTANBUL — Israeli business executives here like to point out that most of the angry Turks who protested Israel’s deadly raid on a … Read More »
UN Supports Israeli Account of Border Clash
Israel said that its forces were clearing brush, as part of routine maintenance work, in a gap between the so-called Blue Line, the internationally … Read More »
Interfaith Marriages Stir Conflicting Feelings
“Loreli has joined the Jewish community,” he said. “She goes to synagogue with me.” And, he said, “Our children have stayed involved with the Jewish … Read More »
Amar’e Stoudemire’s Quest to Israel
Houston, now an executive with the team, visited Israel with his wife last summer. Early reports that Stoudemire had made the journey to trace Jewish roots … Read More »
Lethal Clash at Israel -Lebanon Border
Lebanese soldiers and United Nations peacekeepers (in blue berets) looked across the border with Israel after brief clashes that erupted on Tuesday near the … Read More »
Israel , Turkey and the UN
It took too long, but Israel made the right decision in saying it would cooperate with a United Nations-led investigation into its disastrous attack on a … Read More »
Israelis Divided on Deporting Children
The issue has touched on sensitive nerves in Israel , which sees itself as a nation of Jewish refugees and defines itself as a Jewish and democratic state. … Read More »
Israelis Divided on Deporting Foreign Workers’ Children
The issue has touched on sensitive nerves in Israel , which sees itself as a nation of Jewish refugees and defines itself as a Jewish and democratic state. … Read More »
Rockets Fired Toward Israel and Jordan
Israel determined that those rockets had been fired from Egyptian territory. In Aqaba, black uniformed security forces set up checkpoints and a helicopter … Read More »
The Palestinians, Alone
For example, it was common knowledge that the May 1948 pan-Arab invasion of the nascent state of Israel was more a scramble for Palestinian territory than a … Read More »
Jewish Group Opposes Muslim Center Near Ground Zero
The Anti-Defamation League announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque, intensifying a fierce national debate. Read More »
