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Gov. Hochul said she had directed the New York State Police and the state’s national guard to be on high alert and step up patrols of at-risk sites for Hanukkah, following the firing of shots at an Albany synagogue on Dec. 7, 2023. (Photo: Jason Lawrence/Wikimedia Commons/New York Jewish Week.)

December 8, 2023, 11:39 am

Shots fired at New York synagogue with preschool, suspect in custody

The suspect reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” during the incident.

By LUKE TRESS

Henry Kissinger tells a White House news conference that "peace is at hand in Vietnam," on Oct. 26, 1972. (AP Photo, File)

November 30, 2023, 2:49 pm

Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

The controversial diplomat, who fled Nazi Germany when he was 15, served Richard Nixon as national security advisor, and later secretary of state.

By Charlie Summers

Mahmoud Abbas (left) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on June 14.
Photo: Jade Gao/Pool/AFP

June 26, 2023, 7:12 am

China signs ‘strategic partnership’ with PA

China has appointed a special envoy to meet with Israeli and Palestinian officials, but its experience in the region is mainly limited to construction, manufacturing and other economic projects.

By AJN STAFF

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Bezalel Smotrich during the cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 18. Photo: Amit Shabi/Pool

June 25, 2023, 7:01 am

US lambasts Israeli settlement moves

The decision, which takes immediate effect, also dramatically expedites and eases the process for expanding existing West Bank settlements and retroactively legalising some illegal outposts.

By Jacob Magid

A Spyder surface-to-air missile is fired in a test in an undated photograph. Photo: Israel Defence Ministry

April 17, 2023, 7:36 am

Leaked document says US can push Israel on Ukraine

A recent report said there has been a recent shift in Israel's stance, with a decision taken for the first time to authorise the sale of defensive military equipment to Kyiv.

By AJN STAFF

Holly Huffnagle, the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) US director for combatting antisemitism.

December 21, 2020, 5:05 pm

More than one in three Jews targeted with antisemitism

88 per cent of American Jewish adults believe antisemitism is a problem.

By AJN STAFF

UNESCO'S newly elected director-general, Audrey Azoulay, is Jewish. Photo: AP Photo/Michel Euler

October 19, 2017, 12:00 am

US pulls out of UNESCO, Israel set to follow

Israel has applauded America for leaving a UN agency that has become notorious for criticising the Jewish State and downplaying Jerusalem's Jewish history.

By Nathan Jeffay

Nathan Jeffay at the border between Israel and Lebanon.

July 13, 2017, 10:55 am

The gate to chaos

Beyond the gate to the Israel–Lebanon border lies the world of Hezbollah and, if you carry on straight into Lebanon and turn right to Syria, the drama of the Syrian civil war.

By Nathan Jeffay

Bobbi Jean Smith (right) chats with Batsheva Dance Company artistic director Ohad Naharin.

May 25, 2017, 9:42 am

Starry ride for a Batsheva dancer

After 10 years with Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, Bobbi Jene Smith moved back to the United States to further her career. Hannah Brown reports.

Benjamin Netanyahu farewelling Donald Trump at Ben Gurion airport on Tuesday.
Photo: Kobi Gideon/GPO

May 25, 2017, 12:01 am

Music to Bibi’s ears

DONALD Trump left Israel on Tuesday after a whirlwind trip in which he made history as the first sitting US President to visit the Kotel – and appearing optimistic that he can go down in history as the man who will make peace.

Buchenwald survivors following the camp's liberation.

April 20, 2017, 9:59 am

UN files show Allies aware of Shoah by ‘42

Newly released documents have revealed that the Allied Powers were well aware of the Holocaust at least two and a half years earlier than commonly thought.

Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Hilary Clinton. (Photo: REUTERS)

September 29, 2016, 10:20 am

Bibi in the States

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back home from a high-stakes trip to America. The visit put Israel’s most important alliance under a microscope, with so much riding on it. But how much of what he hoped to achieve from the visit will come to pass?

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

September 15, 2016, 12:01 am

Backlash over Bibi ‘ethnic cleansing’ claim

America is seething and other Western allies are said to be furious, after Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that calling for settlement withdrawal is tantamount to demanding “ethnic cleansing”.

By Nathan Jeffay

Michah Lakin Avni and Karen Lakin. (Tovah Lazaroff / JPOST)

September 2, 2016, 12:01 am

Palestinian scouts glorify terrorist

From the moment his father was murdered in Jerusalem, Micah Lakin Avni knew that people would glorify the killers. But he never dreamed it would be scouts.

By Nathan Jeffay

January 15, 2014, 9:00 am

Levin wanders Down Under

AMERICAN soccer star Camille Levin is four games into her stint with W-League side Western Sydney Wanderers, having joined the Aussie club after a successful campaign in the Swedish Cup with Goteberg FC.