New York

The Trump administration’s effort to present an Israel-Palestinian peace plan in stages, beginning with major economic incentives to the Palestinians, has been met, not unexpectedly, with negative responses from the Palestinian Authority a month before the U.S.-led conference is scheduled to take place in Bahrain. In part the early rejection of the much-heralded, much-delayed plan […]

More than a half-century after the most tragic chapter in Jewish history, the issue of property restitution has not lost its potent emotional charge for a community still traumatized by the Holocaust, even as the survivor population dwindles. In Poland, ongoing efforts to win restitution for Jewish property stolen during the Nazi occupation have collided […]