Abidjian – On a trip to Africa to promote women’s economic empowerment, Ivanka Trump said the White House should be judged by its actions toward a continent that her father has privately disparaged. In an interview with The Associated Press, the president’s daughter and senior adviser pointed to visits to the continent by herself, the [...]

Moscow – Russia’s Foreign Ministry has strongly rejected Israeli media reports claiming that Russian officials have taken the remains of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen out of Syria, where he was executed more than five decades ago. Cohen infiltrated the top echelons of Syria’s leadership in the early 1960s and obtained top-secret intelligence before he [...]

Washington – White House senior adviser Jared Kushner urged a group of ambassadors on Wednesday to keep an “open mind” about President Donald Trump’s upcoming Middle East peace proposal and said it will require compromises from both sides, a source familiar with his remarks said. Kushner said the peace plan is to be unveiled after [...]

New York – Auto shows may be waning in importance as companies find other ways to introduce new products, but the New York International Auto Show still has a healthy list of new vehicle debuts. In keeping with the dramatic shift from cars to sport utilities, most of the new models are SUVs. Here are [...]

Jerusalem – The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court has rejected the Jewish status of the son of an American woman who converted to Judaism several decades ago and whose conversion was approved by the Beth Din of America in 2018. According to the written decision of the court, the ruling was made following an opinion submitted [...]

Chapel Hill, NC – “This is my anti-Semitic song,” Tamer Nafar, a Palestinian-Israeli rapper, said at the opening of a conference on Gaza last month at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I know it might sound [like] R&B stuff, but don’t think of Rihanna when you sing it, don’t think of Beyonce,” [...]

Denver, CO – A Florida teenager believed to be armed and “infatuated” with the Columbine massacre was found dead by authorities in Colorado after she traveled to the state days before the 20th anniversary of the school attack, according to CNN and other media reports. Sol Pais, identified as an 18-year-old woman from Surfside, Florida, [...]

Jerusalem – Israel’s president has formally nominated Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth consecutive term as prime minister. In one of the president’s few non-ceremonial roles, President Reuven Rivlin tasked Netanyahu on Wednesday with assembling a governing coalition within 42 days. The move was widely expected after Netanyahu’s Likud party and its right-wing allies captured a [...]

Jerusalem – Israel’s Defense Ministry says the country’s military exports were $7.5 billion last year, down 18% from the previous year. The ministry said on Wednesday that despite the drop, the 2018 figures were a “major success” and the second-highest level in the past decade. It said the $9.2 billion of defense exports in 2017 [...]

Washington – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected any allegations of anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party and defended Rep. Ilhan Omar against accusations of anti-Semitism. “We have no taint of that in the Democratic Party, and just because they want to accuse somebody of that doesn’t mean that we take that bait,” Pelosi told CNN’s Cristiane [...]