WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, Dec. 10, addressed the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.  After being introduced by Stuart Eizenstat, who had held office in both the Carter and Clinton administrations, Kerry complimented the JDC (affectionately called the “Joint”) for its work in many countries helping not only Jews

By Anav Silverman Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, on Monday afternoon, Dec. 9, at the Washington D.C.  headquarters of the World Bank, signed an agreement on laying a water pipeline to link the Red Sea with the Dead Sea. The pipeline, which will take three years to complete, will help slow the drying up

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Writing out of my customary ignorance about what’s really going on in Israeli politics, I’ve nevertheless ventured to suggest that the election of the centrist – and by all accounts very sensible – Yitzhak Herzog as the new leader of Israel’s Labor Party opens up new possibilities for Labor

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Much has been said and written, by both Democrats and Republicans, about President Obama’s disastrous “deal” with Iran that has been justly compared to “Munich” where, in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain surrendered to Hitler’s demands and sacrificed Czechoslovakia. The Iranian mullahs were granted a “down payment”