The Honorable Yitzhak Navon, 5th President of the State of Israel, Distinguished Chief of Staff of David Ben Gurion, Member of Knesset, Minister of Education, Author, Diplomat and outstanding representative of Classical Sephardic Judaism died on Nov. 7 at his home in Jerusalem.
A Palestinian woman who was shot to death during an attempted stabbing at a West Bank checkpoint left a note saying she would carry out an attack “in defense of my homeland.”
Actress Zooey Deschanel has converted to Judaism.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said if given the opportunity he would kill Adolf Hitler as a baby.
A new biography of Hitler by a prominent German historian is likely to stir controversy with its argument that the Nazi leader\’s political acumen has been underestimated and that the belief in his hypnotic grip over Germans is inflated.
The horserace polls dominating today’s political news are worse than misleading – they’re bad for democracy.
The White House said on Monday that the goal of a two-state solution between Palestinians and Israelis is not likely to be reached during President Barack Obama\’s final months in office.
President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office that there’s no disagreement between the U.S. and Israel on the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Russian-Jewish billionaire Yuri Milner gave out nearly $22 million in Breakthrough Prize Awards for contributions to life sciences, math and physics.
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