Members of the Israel-based Zaka rescue organization will fly to France to assist in the recovery efforts of those killed in last week’s plane crash, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported today: The eight volunteers from the ZAKA International Rescue Unit are scheduled to leave early Monday morning to assist in the search...

The Iranians continue to show signs of inflexibility in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in comments to reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York, said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was “not very precise” about Tehran’s willingness to compromise...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Western powers are scaling back their demands for Iranian disclosure about the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of its nuclear program. According to diplomats close to the negotiations, Iranian refusal to comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) probes into the PMDs...

While accepting the Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual dinner last night, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein called on Jews to fight back against anti-Semitism “and kick these guys in the ass,” The Hollywood Reporter reported. Weinstein, 63, then went off-script to speak about his father, who was a...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius expressed fears that the terms of the deal currently being negotiated with Iran are insufficient to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear, and that the deal as it stands could lead to greater nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. “France...

The P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran adjourned for the weekend amid a growing rift between France and the United States over French insistence that no further concessions be made until Iran gives “a full explanation of evidence” of its past military nuclear research, The Guardian reported today. The sharpest split is between...