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President-elect Donald Trump (right) is shown with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House in 2018. (File photo)
In this series, JTA’s veteran Washington reporter Ron Kampeas describes the U.S.-Israel friendship through portraits of 13 of those presidents, from Harry Truman to Donald Trump.
Read MoreDemocrats traditionally garner the vast majority of the Jewish vote, but Republicans have been making inroads in recent years.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (left) and President Donald Trump at their historic summit in Singapore on June 12. (Kevin Lim/The Strait Times/Handout/Getty Images)
The good news for Israelis, is that “denuclearization will remove North Korea as the No. 1 U.S. national security issue.”
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein talking with reporters in the Capitol building, June 5, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
The June 6 snapshot for Jewish voters: Jewish incumbents appear safe for the most part, and the fretting about a far-right incursion into Republican precincts is overstated — but not entirely put to rest.
Read MoreSpike Lee’s depiction of the black-Jewish relationship has come a long way since the release of “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990), his second major film after his breakout, “Do the Right Thing” (1989).
Read MorePresident Donald Trump said he would not waive sanctions on Iran by a deadline May 12, effectively pulling out of the Iran deal.
Read MoreThe report, the first by ADL on anti-Semitic tweets, estimated the numbers ranged between 36,800 in the week of July 23-29 and 181,700 in the week between Dec. 3-9. It said there was no obvious detectable reason for the discrepancy.
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The "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibition is on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
“Visitors will be surprised at how much Americans knew about Nazism and the Holocaust and how early they knew it,” curator Daniel Greene said in a release announcing the exhibit, which is titled “Americans and the Holocaust.”
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A view of the Israeli lounge within the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., featuring a wooden interpretation of Psalm 150 by the late Israeli artist Nehemia Azaz. (Alain Jaramillo)
Forty-seven years after it was inaugurated by Yitzhak Rabin in 1971, the Israel lounge at The Kennedy Center is about to get a makeover.
Read MoreNewly confirmed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will stop in Israel during a trip that began April 27, one day after the Senate approved his nomination by a vote of 57 to 42.
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Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., speaking at J Street’s conference in Washington D,C., April 16, 2018. (J Street)
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., a pro-Israel stalwart in the Democratic Party, lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a J Street conference.
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