Larry Greenfield, a longtime Republican Jewish activist, was named national executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs in Washington.Read More
The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.Read More
Mossad officials are training Iranian dissident activists to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, a NBC News report citing U.S. officials said on Thursday. The report noted, however, that Washington was not directly involved in the alleged attacks.Read More
Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and his parents met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the presidential palace in Paris.Read More
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and top U.S. security officials told Jewish community leaders there is no imminent threat of an attack on Jewish targets in the United States.Read More
The Health Ministry has yet to issue updated regulations governing the collection or use of sperm donations in Israel, even though the state comptroller called for such rules in 2007.Read More
Differences between Israel and the U.S. over Iran are currently focused on what Defense Minister Ehud Barak has coined the “zone of immunity” of Iran’s nuclear program, the New York Times reported on Thursday.Read More
Jewish groups split on their response to a federal appeals court ruling that allows same-sex couples to marry in California.Read More
The Jewish Federations of North America commended the Obama administration for maintaining the deductibility rate of charitable donations.Read More
Four people were charged with hate crimes in an assault on a Jewish man in New York State.Read More
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