“Sesame Street” is filming a new 12-part series, “Shalom Sesame,” geared toward Jewish-American children and designed to help forge a Jewish identity and affinity with Israel.
Foreign Policy’s Laura Rozen has some details from a briefing Dan Shapiro, the National Security Council director for the Middle East and North Africa, gave to European diplomats last week on the George Mitchell-Benjamin Netanyahu meeting. The basic gist — there’s still more work to be done on settlements: The upshot was that more talks […]
Remember the “hero’s welcome” that greeted the return of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi to his homeland? Well, not everyone thinks it was so heroic. In The New York Times over the weekend, Saif Al-Islam El-Qaddafi, the chairman of the Qaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (which, according to its Web site, is […]