President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday signed a strategic partnership accord that charts the future of U.S.-Afghan relations beyond the end of the NATO combat mission in the country.
Amr Moussa, the leading candidate in Egypt\’s presidential race, called the Camp David peace accords \”dead and buried.\”
A French anti-discrimination group is taking Google to court for offering to search if celebrities are Jewish.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry told Israeli President Shimon Peres that there is \”no doubt\” about President Obama\’s commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
What’s the difference between investiture and ordination? Plenty, say officials at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, which has announced that for the first time since establishing its cantorial school in 1948, it will ordain rather than invest its graduating class of cantors.
President Barack Obama celebrated the “shared struggle” of Jewish identity in proclaiming Jewish Heritage Month for the month of May.
A group of protesting students silently walked out of a speech by Israel\’s U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, at George Washington University.
Stubbornly high levels of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada show a \”sustained undercurrent of anti-Jewish bias\” in the country, B\’nai Brith Canada said.
Richard Prasquier, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewry, reiterated concerns that a Francois Hollande presidency would boost the anti-Israel left.
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