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Those of us fortunate to be living in democratic countries loathe dictatorships and autocracies, and harbor little sympathy for Egyptian President…

Recognition in their own countries has been a long time in coming for the nearly 1,500 Americans and Canadians who volunteered in Israel’s…

The Eichmann trial, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, changed Israel and the world, Yediot Aharonot journalist Noah Kliger said Tuesday,…

Finland’s commitment to protecting its Jewish citizens during World War II has been well documented, but the arrival prior to the war of some 300…

THURSDAY IS International Holocaust Remembrance Day as designated by the UN in November 2005. This day was chosen because it is the date on which the…

PRAGUE — A film about a Briton who organized mass evacuations of children to save them from being sent to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps…

Over the past two years, there have been repeated pleas for our politicians to recognize the gravity of the global and domestic challenges facing us,…

It never hurts to be professionally qualified for more than one career. Having the option of choices, coupled with experience in more than one field,…

The "right approach" to dealing with the conflict in the Middle East is not "peace for territory" but "exchanging territory and populations," Foreign…

Anglo-Australian writer Clive James, reviewing the memoir of Heda Margolius- Kovaly several years ago, wrote: “Given 30 seconds to recommend a single…

PRAGUE — Jan Wiener, a Czech Jew who fought in the British air force during World War II after fleeing Nazis in Germany and Czechoslovakia, has died.…

ALAMEDA, Calif. – His father roused Harry Gluckman from a deep sleep, urging the 11-yearold to get out of his cabin bed and climb to the deck of the…

Even Barack Obama’s midterm electoral humiliation won’t redeem US foreign policy. The problem didn’t begin with the history-deficient mind-set of…

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on Saturday declared it was time for Israel to write off attempts to reach a final-status peace agreement with…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned. Over the past week, it has been widely reported that the Obama…

HE’S BEEN CALLED “A dirty Yid,” a “shyster” and – this needles him most – “a PR hack.” For Robert Amsterdam, derogatory epithets dished out at him in…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, fresh off what was widely viewed as his “undiplomatic” address to the UN General Assembly last month, told his…

Europe plays a vital role in the Middle East, Foreign Ministers Bernard Kouchner of France and Miguel Angel Moratinos of Spain said Monday, in…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos on Sunday, telling…

SINCE THE ANGLO-AMERICAN journalist and provocateur Christopher Hitchens celebrates unconventional views – one of his books is “Letters to a Young…