Israel/Mideast

By MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the face of it, the so-called Gaza Freedom Flotilla seemed to be a...

Israeli novelist Etgar Keret plays diplomatic correspondent for a day, when he covers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Italian...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama said his call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations based on the pre-1967 lines did not mean the...

By DINA KRAFT RAMAT GAN, Israel (JTA) — On television Lisa Edelstein, a star of the hit Fox show House,...

By GARY ROSENBLATT NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish Week) — A second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (www.jtsa.edu) says her...

Members of the Israel Defense Forces' Paratroopers Reconnaissance Brigade, (l to r) Second Lt. Yakir David, Second Lt. Ashager Araro,...

In interview with CNN, Israeli prime minister says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei effectively runs Iran, warning that if Iran 'gets atomic...

Israel's only NBA player and former star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  are making news in the Jewish state (JTA) — The face...

(JTA) — Reacting to news that rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas had agreed to a reconciliation deal, the Obama...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Natasha Mozgovaya, Washington bureau chief for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, visited St. Paul on April 13,...