Harvard Law School
Harvard donor stops sponsoring events after Palestine talk
BOSTON (AP) — A major backer of Harvard Law School has stopped sponsoring student events after its donation helped pay for a discussion on Palestine.
Palestine
Israel
Israeli product-labeling order targeted by GOP lawmaker
(CNSNews.com) – Accusing the Obama administration of a new "effort to put daylight between the United States and Israel," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Monday introduced legislation aimed at annulling what he called a "nonsensical" directive on labeling goods produced in the territories disputed between Israel
islam
PA’s Abbas calls Palestinian terror attacks ‘justified popular uprising’
(JNS.org) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks in Israel is a "justified popular uprising." The violence has come due to "the despair of young Palestinians over the lack of a political horizon for the two-state solution, the [Israeli]
Israel
Kerry’s ‘one state’ comments cause consternation in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set off an uproar in Israel on Sunday after warning that the country, through its continued West Bank occupation, will become a "binational state." Kerry's words describe a scenario that would mark a failure of U.S.
Israel
Palestinian Authority limits Christmas celebrations in West Bank
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — The Palestinian Authority has asked municipalities to tone down their public Christmas celebrations this year amid escalating violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Hana Amireh, who heads a government committee on churches in the West Bank, confirmed the Palestinian Authority is requesting "a certain decrease"
Barack Obama
Patriots honor memory of local Jewish teen killed in Palestinian terror attack
FOXBORO — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft made sure that the memory of one of his team's most ardent fans, an 18-year-old college-bound student from Sharon, took center stage at Gillette Stadium ahead of Monday night's divisional tilt against the Buffalo Bills. Ezra Schwartz, who was
Massachusetts
Mass. teen killed in Israel terror attack
A teenager from Sharon, Mass., was one of three people murdered in Israel on Thursday afternoon when a Palestinian man attacked cars stuck in traffic in the West Bank. Ezra Schwartz, 18, a recent high school graduate, was spending a "gap year" in Israel studying and performing community
Barack Obama
Netanyahu to Jewish Federations: U.S., Israel ‘should work together’ on Iran
Despite their disagreement over the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. and Israel "can and should work together now" to ensure that Iran complies with the agreement and to curb Iranian aggression throughout the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the General Assembly of
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