President Barack Obama gave President-elect Donald Trump some breathing room before deciding whether to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, renewing on Thursday a presidential waiver suspending the relocation of the embassy for another six months.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation urging President Barack Obama to oppose or veto anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations before he leaves office.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on Wednesday welcomed Governor Nikki Haley’s appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations as reassuring to Israel.
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday called President-elect Donald Trump’s disavowal of the alt-right movement “not even a condemnation.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has seen a dramatic increase in online donations since the election of Donald Trump, new data shared with Jewish Insider showed.
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz was jeered at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner on Sunday for suggesting that the organization must be a home to “all Zionists, not just right-wing Zionists.”
Despite the advance attention it got in the media, Stephen Bannon, newly-announced White House Chief Strategist and special advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, was a no-show at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in New York on Sunday.
The United States signed a 10-year $38 billion “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) in September offering Israel the largest military package to any country in American history.
Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer pledged to work with newly-appointed WH chief strategist Steve Bannon, despite the opposition from major Jewish organizations, after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Thursday.
Last year, as many voters set their sights on the 17-plus candidates running for president, one presidential historian predicted that the 2016 presidential race would shape up to be the “most Jewish” election in the history of the United States.
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