On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to dismiss a suit brought by a pro-Israel group against the IRS.  In her ruling, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson demanded that the agency stop “attempting to thwart this action’s advancement,”  and ordered the IRS to respond to the complaint within thirty days. The Philadelphia-based group,...

On Wednesday Ethiopian Jews commemorated the estimated 4,000 of their number who died on their way to Israel. The commemoration took place on Mt. Herzl. The Jerusalem Post reports: The annual ceremony, the “Memorial Day for Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel,” is observed annually to commemorate the...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a partnership with Ben-Gurion University on Tuesday. MIT, one of America’s leading universities, already has a number of programs with other Israeli institutions including a partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University’s MIT Enterprise Forum Israel. The MIT Enterprise Forum Israel is one of...

With the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) vote over criticizing Israel scheduled for this coming Sunday, the Washington Free Beacon today reported on a recently discovered listserv where a number of members of the organization engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric. The Free Beacon observes: The highly charged rhetoric about Israel, revealed last week...

Language attached to the $600 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) report may deepen American-Israeli cooperation in developing and producing missile defense technology – with the provision aiming to ensure “coproduction of parts and components [for the Iron Dome system]… in a manner...

A wide-ranging interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Bloomberg View columnist Jeffrey Goldberg – in which the Israeli leader emphasized Jerusalem’s determination to either bilaterally or unilaterally untangle the Jewish state from Palestinians living in the West Bank – triggered a wave of social media discussion Friday morning,...