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  • AIPAC conference in 90 seconds

    February 28, 2013 4:23pm

    Give us 90 seconds, Ron Kampeas gives you everything you need to know about next week’s AIPAC policy conference. 

  • Republicans block Hagel vote

    February 14, 2013 10:50pm

    Senate Republicans blocked a vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense.

  • Koch eulogized by N.Y. elite as friend of Israel, Jewish people

    February 5, 2013 3:34pm

    Ed Koch was remembered as a friend of Israel and the Jewish people by a cast of political luminaries at the former New York City mayor’s funeral.

  • U.S. judge dismisses Long Island eruv lawsuit

    February 5, 2013 3:21pm

    One of three federal lawsuits filed in connection with a proposed eruv enclosure in a suburban New York beach community was dismissed.

  • Can Israel live with a nuclear Iran?

    January 17, 2013 10:30pm

    That was the proposition put to a debate in New York last night at an event hosted by Intelligence Squared. The debates are Oxford style and feature a pre-debate and post-debate poll of the audience.  Judging from those numbers, the argument that Israel can NOT live with a nuclear Iran was the more persuasive one….

  • Gilad Shalit visits immigrant soldiers

    January 17, 2013 10:15pm

    Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit visited immigrant soldiers in Jerusalem.

  • Shalit visits lone soldiers

    January 17, 2013 10:04pm

    Gilad Shalit playing table tennis with IDF Lone Soldiers in Jerusalem, Jan. 17, 2013. (Courtesy Nefesh B’Nefesh) Gilad Shalit knows something about the loneliness that can accompany military service. Shalit spent five years in captivity after being kidnapped by Hamas operates in 2006. This week Shalit visited with another kind of lone soldier — immigrants…

  • Finding compromise at the wall (UPDATED)

    January 2, 2013 9:48pm

    It’s fairly easy to justify wallowing in pessimism over the prospect of a reasonable compromise in the simmering dispute over women’s prayer rights at the Western Wall. Both sides often appear in the media like intransigent ideologues who will be satisfied with nothing short of surrender by their opponents. But two essays out today by…

  • At first Newtown funeral, Noah Pozner remembered as loving ‘little man’

    December 18, 2012 4:07pm

    At the funeral for the youngest victim of the Newtown massacre, Noah Pozner, mourners offer remembrances, prayers and a plea not to stay “lost in sorrow.”

  • YU president apologizes following abuse allegations

    December 14, 2012 1:51pm

    The president of Yeshiva University apologized for alleged instances of sexual misconduct and harassment by two former teachers at the university’s high school.