Brandeis University announced that its next president will be Ronald D. Liebowitz, the former president of Middlebury College in Vermont.
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a massive tax bill that makes permanent and enhances tax credits to aid business research and development, the working poor, children and other temporary tax breaks.
Supermodel Bar Refaeli is under investigation in her native Israel over allegations that she evaded paying local tax on earnings from her international career.
Ben Carson became the second Republican presidential candidate to cancel a scheduled trip to Israel which was set for the end of December.
Bernie Sanders referenced the Holocaust and condemned Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “anti-Muslim rhetoric and hatred” in a visit to a Washington mosque.
A Florida university is moving to fire a professor after the parents of the Jewish boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting accused him of harassment.
Supermodel Bar Refaeli was reportedly questioned for 12 hours by authorities under suspicion of failing to pay millions of shekels in taxes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed ahead with a deal to develop a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea despite objections by government regulators.
Fourteen people were mildly poisoned by a toxic substance that was applied to the keypad of an electronic lock of a synagogue south of Paris.
The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
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