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Lewis "Scooter" Libby speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., March 29, 2011. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Scooter Libby was convicted of lying in the investigation into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name to the media in what was seen as an attempt to discredit the opposition of her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the Iraq war.
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Charlie Goodman, 15, Kayla Renert, 15, and Talia Rumsky, 16 (left to right), survivors of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., posing at a NFTY event in Washington D.C. before the March for Our Lives march against gun violence, March 24, 2018. (Ron Kampeas)
A Friday night interfaith service at the National Cathedral began with the Washington Children’s Choir singing Al Shlosha Dvarim, a Hebrew song about the three pillars of Jewish faith.
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John Bolton speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua, N.H., April 17, 2015. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Let’s get to what you might not know or remember about John Bolton.
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According to the New York Times, a manuscript of John Bolton's upcoming memoir contends that President Trump told Bolton in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in military aid to Ukraine until that country investigated Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. (Alex Wong/Getty Images, via JTA)
The White House announced March 22 that H.R. McMaster was leaving the position and that John Bolton would take his place by April 9.
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Mike Pompeo, at the time a Republican congressman from Kansas, holding a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2012. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
What does the departure of Tillerson and the elevation of Pompeo tell us about where Trump’s “wavelength” is when it comes to what matters to Israel and American Jews?
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Piles of ruined books from United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston. The congregation lost many of its prayer books during Hurricane Harvey and replenished them through donations. (Courtesy of United Orthodox Synagogues)
Congress passed a law last month that would allow federal disaster relief to go straight to churches and synagogues.
Read MoreBuilding a new embassy will take at least three years, and the spokesman suggested that at least for now, much of the daily operation of the embassy will remain in Tel Aviv.
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President Donald Trump is shown at a 2018 listening session on gun violence with teachers and students at the White House. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Meadow Pollack was 18, and a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 19-year-old gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire last week on his former classmates.
Read MoreGraham, 99, died at his home in Montreat, N.C. He was a counselor to Democratic and Republican presidents and was a precursor of the Protestant televangelism that helped reshape the American religious and political landscapes.
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Jay Marshall Wolman, left, defends Andrew Anglin, the founder of the anti-Semitic website The Daily Stormer. (Randazza Legal Group/Wikimedia Commons)
“I would spend a lifetime opposing what was said, but I will never allow anti-Semitism to derail my commitment to freedom of speech.”–Jay Marshall Wolman
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Reps. Steve Cohen, left, and David Kustoff knew each other long before they entered politics. (Ron Kampeas)
Both Steve Cohen and David Kustoff say they wish there were more cross-party partnerships like theirs in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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