Republican presidential front-runner Donald J. Trump on Monday doubled down on his suggestion that he would remain neutral on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But in the same breath he reassured Israel that the U.S would take her side if attacked by its enemies.
Students at McGill University in Montreal voted to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
Douglas Slocombe, the acclaimed British cinematographer who filmed the Nazi invasion of Poland, has died at 103.
It is said that art reflects life. If so, the Middle East seems to be taking over Europe.
The University of Oklahoma has agreed to share a painting looted by the Nazis with a French museum.
The Democratic National Committee named as Jewish outreach director a Jewish studies graduate of Brandeis University.
An Israeli government ministry held a secret conference in Jerusalem with international Jewish leaders on ways to fight Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns against Israel.
The Italian government summoned the U.S. ambassador to complain about reports that the United States eavesdropped on a conversation between Israeli and Italian leaders, among others.
The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebel groups accepted a plan for a cessation of hostilities to begin on Saturday and the United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting did not stop.
Coffee actually started out as a food, not a drink.
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