An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, a chronic disease marked by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing as the lining of the lungs’ bronchial tubes swells and narrows the airways. A new study suggests that a vitamin D deficiency – a common problem — increases the likelihood...

Kay Wilson, a survivor of a brutal 2010 terror attack, hid Mohammad Zoabi, an outspoken Israeli-Arab Zionist teen, in her house for one month this past summer until he could be spirited off to the United States for his own protection, The Times of Israel reported today. At the height...

Foreign Policy on Thursday assessed growing tensions between Palestinian officials and Washington, citing a range of statements to the effect that relations between Ramallah and Washington may become strained should the Palestinians continue to press unilateral moves toward statehood at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The outlet, which said the...

Harvard University’s student newspaper, The Crimson, reported Thursday that the decision to boycott water dispensers manufactured by the Israeli company Sodastream by the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) was “mistaken.” In the face of criticism over a spring decision to suspend purchases from an Israeli soda water company with a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not overlook the firing of even a single rocket at Israel after a third rocket exploded in Israel since the conclusion of Operation Protective Edge this past summer. Speaking at a Hanuka candle- lighting ceremony at the Western Wall, Netanyahu said: “Israel’s safety...

Representatives Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) issued a letter Friday calling on the Obama administration to “send a clear message” that it will veto any United Nations Security Council resolution that “attempts to bypass direct negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinians.” The letter read in part: We write to...