When I heard the news that American journalist Steven Sotloff had been beheaded by the radical jihadist group ISIS, I immediately began checking the Internet to find out more about his Jewish connections.
A high-level U.S. delegation is meeting with its Iranian counterpart in Geneva for direct talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
\”As the international media is fixated on the struggle between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, few reporters are focusing on Syria.\”
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and proposed a “U.N. of religions” to fight terrorism.\n
Joan Rivers, the pioneering comedian known for her acerbic wit, classic put-downs and for asking \”Can we talk?,\” died on Thursday at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after her heart stopped during an outpatient medical procedure.
After months of rampaging through Iraq and stoking international fears that the Islamic State terrorist group could spread, a combination of Iraqi and Kurdish security forces, aided by targeted United States airstrikes, appear to have pushed back the self-proclaimed caliphate’s rampage in the region.
President Barack Obama\’s administration is dispatching senior intelligence officials to provide an in-depth briefing on the Islamic State militant group to key members of Congress and staff, a congressional aide said on Thursday.
The president of a Swiss Jewish community denied accusations that he helped leak nude photos of a pro-Palestinian mayor who had sent them to a younger woman.
Two East Carolina University students were arrested for allegedly spray-painting a swastika on the door of a Jewish student’s apartment.
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