Amnesty International U.K. has cancelled a Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) organized debate it was due to host on Wednesday, citing concerns over settlements, leaving the organization accused of blurring the lines between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. Amnesty had initially agreed to join the panel debate, but withdrew their speaker...

The proposed move of the United States embassy to Jerusalem, announced Monday by Vice President Mike Pence before Israel’s Knesset, would serve as a “tangible rejection” of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which characterized Israel’s presence in the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas captured by Israel in...

On a recent Wednesday morning, volunteer emergency medical technician Sanaa Mahameed was the first responder on the scene as fire and rescue personnel extricated two injured people from their vehicles following a car crash. Unfortunately, motor vehicle accidents aren’t a rare occurrence. What was unusual about this scene is that...

Researchers at University of Haifa have pieced together a calendar that is believed to be the next-to-last unpublished text among the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The 364-day calendar was pieced together from some 60 parchment fragments, some measuring smaller than one square centimeter. Unlike the standard Jewish...

The groups who boycotted Scarlett Johansson’s Women’s March speech in Los Angeles due to her position as spokesperson for SodaStream, an Israeli company that employs both Jews and Arabs, was both “clarifying & contemptible,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said on Twitter Sunday. It's clarifying & contemptible that some...

United States Vice President Mike Pence announced on Monday that the United States will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of 2019, ahead of schedule, honoring a bipartisan commitment made over 20 years ago, enshrined in the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995. The Trump...

When Federica Mogherini, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs  finally spoke up about the protests that have recently roiled Iran, she didn’t speak up for freedom and demand that the government  respect the rights of the protesters, but rather, she offered a non-judgmental “we expect all concerned to refrain from...

Is a cure for hemophilia on the horizon? American biotechnology company BioMarin aims to find out with the help of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. BioMarin has chosen Sheba to take part in the next phase of international trials for what’s being touted as a “magic bullet” cure...

The New York Times, in its Twitter feed describing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech saying that the PA would no longer participate in peace talks led by the United States, described Abbas as a “staunch champion of the Oslo Accords.” It was an odd description of Abbas, and appeared...

A leading legislative architect of previous sanctions against Iran has described the proposed Congressional legislation as the “gold standard” in fixing the weaknesses in the nuclear deal with Iran that President Donald Trump demanded last week, Axios reported on Thursday. Richard Goldberg, a onetime aide to former Sen. Mark Kirk...