Israel

Ideas

Why does Netanyahu embrace the oppressive Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte?

Duterte offers Israel few concrete benefits and plenty of risks, writes a foreign policy analyst.

Speaking to Orthodox Jewish donors, Trump says he could become Israel’s prime minister

President Trump received a blessing from a rabbi and joked about his fallback plan if he lands on hard times in the United States.

Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir posts photos of Israel taken from space

Meir’s late father was born in Iraq but immigrated with his family to prestate Israel as a young child, later fighting in the country’s War of Independence in 1948.

Israel

Women singers not welcome at charity concert promoting unity among Israelis

Global

The last Jews in Afghanistan argued so much the Taliban kicked them out of prison and stole their Torah

Culture

This Jewish mom’s brilliant idea makes flying with kids less hellish

Ideas

By withdrawing from Syria, Trump has abdicated responsibility and abandoned allies

Israel

Squeezed for burial space, Jerusalem prepares to open an underground city of the dead

The Tell

The Tell: 2 senators reach across the aisle to tackle the Syria nightmare

Ideas

Bernie Sanders is 78, but he represents the future of American Jewry

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