Brooklyn, NY – Controversial College Event With Anti-Israel Speakers Goes On Calmly Amid Protesters (video)
Brooklyn, NY - An event at Brooklyn College calling for boycotts and sanctions against Israel went off calmly Thursday with the panelists speaking to a largely supportive crowd.
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Washington – CIA Confirmation Halted Due To Protesters
Washington - Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing Thursday the United States remains at war with al-Qaida and other terroris...
Washington – White House No New Peace Plan On Israel Trip
Washington - The White House says President Barack Obama won't be unveiling a specific new peace proposal when he visits Israel this spring.
The White House announced Tuesday th...
Damascus – Satellite Shows Damage Done By Alleged Israeli Strike; Research Center Unscathed
Damascus - A research center that Syria said was hit by an Israeli strike last week remained unscathed in the attack, an Israeli television channel said satellite images it broadca...
Jerusalem – Israel Boosts Defenses Along Syria, Lebanon Borders
Jerusalem - Israel has deployed a third Iron Dome missile defense system near its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, security sources said on Tuesday.
The Iron Dome system...
Washington – Obama To Visit Israel In First Visit As President
Washington - President Barack Obama plans to visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this spring, the White House said on Tuesday, raising the prospects of a new U.S. push to restar...
Bulgaria – Officials Link Hezbollah To Bombing Of Israelis
Bulgaria - Hezbollah bombed a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a terrorist cell...
Egypt – Iran’s Ahmadinejad Kissed And Scolded On Historic Visit
Egypt - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was both kissed and scolded on Tuesday when he began the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
The tr...
Washington – US Officials: Israeli Syria Strike Targeted Arms Convoy
Washington - American officials have told American media outlets that Israel did carry out an air strike in Syria last week, and that the target was a Syrian convoy of trucks carry...
Jerusalem – Channel 2: Secret Meetings Between Netanyahu, Livni
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held secret meetings with Tzipi Livni ahead of the formation of the 19th Knesset, Channel 2 reported on Monday.
The report gives cr...
Washington – Kerry Has ‘Big Heels To Fill’ At State Dep’t
Washington - New Secretary of State John Kerry reported for duty Monday, acknowledging that as Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor he has "big heels to fill" and promising to protec...
Munich – After Biden’s Offer Iran Says US Changed Approach To Iran
Munich, Germany - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday he saw U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden's offer this weekend of bilateral dialogue between their two countri...
Jerusalem – One Million People Without Cell Service As Pelephone Network Crashes
Jerusalem - Service for one of Israel's largest cellphone providers has been disrupted.
In a message on its website, Pelephone said the service went down Sunday evening and that...
Los Angeles, CA – Stories Of Holocaust Survivors Retold By Holograms
Los Angeles, CA - For years, Holocaust survivor Pinchus Gutter has told the tragic story of watching his parents and 10-year-old twin sister herded into a Nazi death camp's gas ch...
Munich – Iran Positive But Noncommittal About Talks With US
Munich - Iran's foreign minister on Sunday welcomed the United States' willingness to hold direct talks with Tehran in the standoff over its nuclear program but didn't commit to ac...
Damascus – Assad Says Syria Can Confront Threats After Israel Strike
Damascus - President Bashar al-Assad accused Israel on Sunday of trying to destabilize Syria by attacking a military research base outside Damascus last week, and said Syria was ab...
Washington – Republicans To Obama: Don’t Send F-16 Jets To Egypt Following Morsi’s Anti-Jewish Comments
Washington - Members of Congress are asking the Obama administration to reconsider sending F-16 fighter jets to Egypt due to popular protests against the government and its use of ...
Munich – Israel Suggests Responsibility For Syria Airstrike
Munich - Israel's defense minister indicated Sunday that his country was behind the airstrike on Syria last week, in the first public comments from his government on the attack tha...
Damascus – Syrian TV Airs Purported Images Of Israel Strike (video)
Damascus, Syria - Syrian television is broadcasting images of what it says is the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Syria earlier this week.
U.S. officials say the Wednesday ...
Rishon Lezion – Court: Rabbi Must Explain Referrals Of Marrying Couples To Private Firm
Rishon Lezion - The High Court of Justice demanded on Thursday that Rishon Lezion Chief Rabbi Yehuda David Wolpe explain why he sends couples seeking to register for marriage to a ...