Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday urged President-elect to follow through with his campaign promise to renegotiate the Iranian nuclear deal in response to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warning not to push for changes in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The Orthodox Union (O.U.) has started an online petition calling on President-elect Donald Trump to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
At a time when Iran and Saudi Arabia continue to wage a proxy war against each other that has bled into, and enflamed, many of the Middle East’s conflicts, Iranian media responded positively to a surprise announcement last week that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would cut production of oil, a move that was interpreted as a diplomatic defeat for Saudi Arabia.
Trin Schrode, a Jewish environmental activist, was standing on the bank of North Dakota’s Cannonball River last month, interviewing one of the thousands of people who had converged there to protest the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
When the gap year program Tzedek America launched this year, it became the first program of its kind in Los Angeles for recent Jewish high school graduates and one of only two such programs in the United States.
In the months leading up to the recent election, numerous pundits expressed concerns about a Trump presidency, were he to win.
“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read” (Bavli, Berachot 55a).
The wine bottles are empty. The candles have seen their last flicker. And the last guest has gone home. You want to put your feet up with a big sigh of relief, but wait — there’s cleaning up to do.
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