Charedi Orthodox youth mob Western Wall in protest of women’s prayer service

Published on May 10, 2013

Haredi Orthodox youth mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly prayer service.

Sharansky’s Kotel plan loses support from both sides

Published on April 30, 2013

Natan Sharansky’s proposal to reduce tensions at the Western Wall has lost support from Orthodox and non-Orthodox leaders.

Sharansky wins second term as head of Jewish Agency

Published on February 19, 2013

Natan Sharansky was elected to a second term as chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Anti-Semitic messages left on Jewish Agency Facebook page

Published on October 11, 2012

The Jewish Agency for Israel's Facebook page was inundated with hundreds of explicitly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages.

Flotilla sponsor tweets that Zionists helped perpetrate the Holocaust

Published on October 4, 2012

The founder of the Free Gaza Movement, which uses flotillas in trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, tweeted that Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust, then apologized.

Israel MUST rely on itself

By Arthur Cohn
Published on September 19, 2012

Once again, during the year that is drawing to a close, there was no country that was more harshly criticized, no state that was more frequently condemned than Israel.

Holocaust-era property database reaches 2 million records

Published on February 1, 2012

A searchable database of Holocaust-era property records has reached more than two million records.

A Kibbutz State of Mind

By Masa Israel Journey
Published on January 26, 2012

Teaching English Underground: My Gap Year in Southern Israel

By Masa Israel Journey
Published on December 6, 2011

Class notes: Students attend ‘Israel High;’ Boychik Scouts; Honors abound

By Julie G Fax
Published on September 8, 2007

Education

Israelis prod Shoah Claims Conference for bigger share

By Uriel Heilman
Published on November 30, 2006

An Israeli coalition, including the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israeli Holocaust survivor organizations and the Knesset's pensioner affairs minister, is calling on the Claims Conference to give Israel a larger share of Holocaust restitution funds and more control over distribution decisions.

Nation & World Briefs

Published on October 27, 2005

The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) appears to be on the verge of a long-awaited security reform in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Different Approaches to Zionism

Published on September 11, 1997

Kenneth Bob, a software executive from Long Island,N.Y., is registered to vote in this month's World Zionist Congresselections, but he's having a hard time deciding how to cast hisballot.

Israel’s Tug of the Tides

By Rabbi Harvey J. Fields
Published on July 10, 1997

Photo from "The Jews in America," Collins Publishers, 1989.Out along the glistening white, sandy beach in Herzliya, one feels a sense of serenity. The expected is unfolding. The tides gently form the shining blue waters of the Mediterranean into white foaming waves that crash upon the shore. They invade and wash away children's sand castles, cool the feet of walkers like me. The sounds at water's edge are constant, primal, refreshing.