Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honored foreign rescue and fire fighting delegations that assisted in putting out the Carmel Forest fire.
It is hard to explain just how devastated Israelis are by the Carmel fire. But it is easier to explain how that devastation can become a positive force for positive change, right now, in Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blasted a ruling by dozens of Israel\’s municipal chief rabbis that forbids renting homes to gentiles, and more specifically to Arabs.
A bipartisan slate of senators urged President Obama to increase pressure on Iran in nuclear talks.
Abraham H. Foxman is the go-to guy when it comes to the anxieties and interests of the Jewish community in America. As national director of the Anti-Defamation League, he is called upon whenever the headlines carry a story with a Jewish angle. To put it another way, when Foxman speaks, people listen.
There is a sick feeling of demoralization settling over Democrats, like drizzle on a cloudy day. It’s not because of losses in the midterm elections; it’s the unnerving realization that we are on our own.
The Obama administration reportedly has abandoned efforts to have Israel freeze its settlements.
This is a map of the the areas affected by the Carmel forest fire in northern Israel, which began Thursday Dec. 2.
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