As many of you undoubtedly know, US assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces has been on hold since the day before the border incident with the IDF. David Schenker has done a detailed analysis of US assistance to the LAF (as bad as they are, giving it... 

Prime Minister Netanyahu heads to Washington on Tuesday night, where he will have dinner on Wednesday night with President Obama, ‘moderate’ ‘Palestinian’ President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordanian... 

Young Jewish athletes and performance artists from around the country descended on Baltimore, Md., for the annual JCC Maccabi Games and ArtsFest. Go here to read the rest:  Hundreds of Athletes and Artists Compete at Baltimore Maccabi Games  Read More →

Officials from across Australia’s Jewish community congratulated the country’s first female prime minister after she took office amidst a surprise intraparty power shift in Canberra. View original post here: Australian Jewish Community Congratulates... 

Israeli veterans wounded in their country’s last major military operation in the Gaza Strip arrived in New York City Sunday for a much-anticipated 12-day tour of locations in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. View original here: Wounded... 

Several hundred staff-members, lay leaders, philanthropists and community professionals affiliated with non-profit Jewish summer camps around the country gathered recently in New Jersey for a biennial Leadership Assembly organized by the Foundation for... 

Arrests have yet to be made in the case of an anti-Semitic assault with a machete against two Carelton University students in Ottawa, but one of the victims of the attack says that he expects more progress to be made in the investigation when students... 

I did this cartoon on Sunday night. It thumbs its nose at Europe, laughs at their troubles, and makes a metaphor out of the volcanic cloud of ash. This kind of prideful behavior is, of course, a big no-no in Jewish culture. Acting with the degree of... 

Today’s Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon I did 28 years ago in 1982. Tonight is erev Yom Yerushalayim , the eve of Jerusalem Day, which marks the happy day in 1967 when Jerusalem was liberated and thus became open to all faiths. It reminds us... 

Themselves reeling from Greece’s financial tailspin, but appalled at the anarchy and violence that reined throughout the capital on Wednesday, members of Athens’ 3,000-strong Jewish community turned to prayer in the hope that stability would regain...