A series of extreme anti-Israel events has threatened to transform Vassar College from “a prestigious institution into a parody ripe for ridicule,” Mark Yudof and Ken Waltzer wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, calling on the university to “confront this wave of anti-Semitism.” Yudof, the former president of the University...

Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050, yet it is not currently possible to detect the disease before it has caused loss of memory and function. Even then, the tests available are invasive and/or expensive. The quest to develop a...

An off-duty Israeli soldier was killed and another man seriously wounded after being stabbed by two Palestinians in a supermarket north of Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, was evacuated from the West Bank market where he was attacked and hospitalized in critical condition...

The Obama administration said that the proposed sale of Russian fighter jets to Iran would violate the United Nations Security Council resolution that supported the nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said that the purchase of the aircraft as part of an $8 billion Russian...

Seven months after it was first announced, the nuclear deal with Iran remains deeply unpopular in the United States, with nearly twice as many Americans opposing the agreement as supporting it, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup. The poll, conducted from February 3-7, found that 57% of Americans...

Meeting with a group of mothers and their families from Israeli communities near the Gaza border, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power heard about the reality of daily life under the threat of rocket attacks from the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday....

Senior Palestinian Authority officials blamed a group of British parliamentarians for the entire conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred at a Ramallah lunch meeting between a delegation from Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a group that brings British lawmakers from...

The use of Shi’ite militias from across the Middle East to boost the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is the latest example of how Iran uses “Shiite proxies to bolster its reach and influence” across the region, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday. Fighters from Hezbollah, Iran’s...

Israel’s hard-won expertise in the realm of cyber-security can provide unique insights and valuable lessons for the United States, Yahoo Tech columnist Rob Pegoraro concluded in a report published Tuesday. “If only the Israeli approach were something we could pack in a box and put on a plane to the States,” wrote Pegoraro after returning...

One of this year’s most talked-about gowns at the Grammy Awards on Monday night was an Inbal Dror-designed wedding dress worn by Beyoncé. Beyoncé made a grand entrance “wearing a high-necked white lace Inbal Dror gown with tulle insets at the collar and cuffs, plus two twin slits inset with the same...