Support for former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among Democrats has jumped since earlier this month, helped by a strong performance in last week\’s first Democratic presidential candidates debate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Monday.
It was in the middle of Sukkot, that loveliest of holidays in Israel, set aside for family time, when even the most devout and serious yeshiva men can be seen with their entire families visiting the zoo or traipsing through nature trails in Galilee.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rejected calls to have an international presence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and called for agreed-upon steps to calm the current wave of violence.
When the rock musical “Spring Awakening” premiered on Broadway, it was a critical darling and financial success.
Israel began erecting a portable concrete security wall between Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem.
A Palestinian effort to have a United Nations agency declare Judaism’s holiest site a Muslim holy site is “an attempt to distort history,” Israel said.
The Anti-Defamation League honored the American Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu for standing up against an anti-Israel boycott.
The German anti-Islam movement PEGIDA staged its biggest rally in months on Monday, sparked into fresh life on its first anniversary by anger at the government\’s decision to take in hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East.
Iran\’s nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said on Monday he expected a deal with six world powers on shrinking Tehran\’s atomic program in exchange for sanctions relief to be implemented by year-end.
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