American Jews disapprove of the nuclear deal with Iran, and overwhelmingly reject the deal when presented with more information on it, a new poll has found. The poll, which is the most extensive survey of American Jews and their views on the Iran nuclear deal to date, showed that 47 percent of...

Top Democrats must lead the fight against the recently concluded nuclear deal with Iran, if for no other reason than to prevent the demise of their party, Martin Peretz, the longtime editor-in-chief of The New Republic and a board member of The Israel Project, wrote in The Democratic Party, on the Edge of the Abyss, published in...

Three Jews who disappeared after seeking to escape from Iran via Pakistan in 1997 were captured and murdered, Israel’s intelligence agency the Mossad concluded based on newly acquired information, The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday. The three, Nourollah Rabizadeh and brothers Cyrus and Avraham Ghahremani, fled Tehran in February 1997. They...

Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva has agreed to purchase the global generics unit of the Ireland-based corporation Allergan PLC for $40.5 billion, the largest such acquisition in Israel’s history, The Times of Israel reported yesterday. Teva will pay $33.75 billion in cash and offer $6.75 billion of its stock to Allergan,...

Forty years ago, the American Jewish community found itself faced with a White House that was determined to come to an arms control deal with a tyranny. Despite hesitation about challenging the Nixon administration’s policy of detente with the Soviet Union, the community and a group of senators pushed for...

Calling the recently announced Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5+1 powers “historic … for all the wrong reasons,” Rep. Juan Vargas (D – Calif.), who until this year served on the House Foreign Affairs Commitee, wrote that he will vote against the nuclear agreement in...

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) solidifies Iran’s nuclear weapons program and allows Iran to build “ballistic missiles that could accurately deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere in the Middle East, Europe, or even the United States,” Michael Makovsky, CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and...

The island nation of Bahrain, a United States ally on the Persian Gulf, recalled its ambassador to Tehran over the weekend in response to a foiled Iran-backed terror plot, the third in the last two months. Ties between the two countries were already strained after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted a graphic depicting President Barack Obama holding a gun to his head and featuring a quote calling the United Stated “aggressive and criminal,” USA Today reported Saturday. “US president has said he could knock out Iran’s military. We welcome no war, nor do...

Iran will not be obligated to account for all of its past nuclear work under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), leading “a number of lawmakers to conclude the U.S. and world powers will never get to the bottom of the country’s alleged efforts to build an atomic weapon,”...