If it is true that there is no such thing as bad publicity, then Gary Shteyngart may be one of the best things to happen to the Conservative movement’s at-times-beleaguered Schechter Day School Network.
The line between respecting diverse religious beliefs and violating the rights and dignity of gays and lesbians is at the center of a debate between gay advocates and the PJ Library over a children’s picture book featuring a family with two fathers.
On Purim, can we really blot out the memory of an evil like Haman, who threatened our very existence, with a noisemaker?
Iran accused Israel of faking a raid on a ship laden with arms bound for the Gaza Strip.
Students of the National University of Ireland passed a motion supporting a boycott of Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would give up \”some settlements\” in occupied Palestinian land to help secure a peace agreement but would limit as much as he could the number of enclaves removed.
President Vladimir Putin rebuffed a warning from U.S. President Barack Obama over Moscow\’s military intervention in Crimea, saying on Friday that Russia could not ignore calls for help from Russian speakers in Ukraine.
When the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) delegates gather in Philadelphia on Sunday, March 9, to kick off the organization’s 97th national convention, they’ll be faced with a choice between the two men who want to lead the staunchly pro-Israel organization.
For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely wounded in clashes with Ukrainian forces on Feb. 18, Israeli medical care may be his only hope.
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