Israel
At Auschwitz, remembering the Holocaust after the passage of a contentious Polish law
By Lauren Markoe — April 11, 2018
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) — Swirling around Thursday's annual march are questions about Poles' willingness to grapple with some of their forebears' participation in the Holocaust.
A rabbi should be able to change his or her mind
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 9, 2018
I celebrate a deep friendship, which has forced me to re-examine much of what I once believed.
‘Ignorance’ feeds anti-Semitism in the Arab world
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 27, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — How to deal with the problem was the challenge posed at a conference in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem tax spat pits heaven against earth
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 12, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — An ethereal city graced with sunlight so bright it turns the white stone skyline gold at sunset, Jerusalem is also an earthbound city whose teachers must be paid and whose garbage must be collected.
Christians emerge as key patrons for Jews moving to Israel
By Associated Press — March 9, 2018
(AP) — What was once a strictly Jewish-funded mission is increasingly being bankrolled by evangelical Christians.
Christians shutter famous Jerusalem church to protest taxes
By Delta Systems — February 26, 2018
JERUSALEM (AP) —The Christian leaders responsible for the site issued a joint statement bemoaning what they called a 'systematic campaign of abuse' against them, comparing it to anti-Jewish laws issued in Nazi Germany.
Billy Graham never lived in Texas but belonged to a Dallas church for 54 years
By Bobby Ross Jr. — February 21, 2018
DALLAS (RNS) — Why did Graham place membership at a church nearly 1,000 miles from his home in Montreat, N.C.?
Iran president slams US recognition of Jerusalem as capital
By Omer Farooq — February 16, 2018
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Iran's president on Friday strongly criticized the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and urged Muslims to support the Palestinian cause.
Parliament’s action imperils Polish-Jewish relations
By Agnieszka Markiewicz — February 5, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (RNS) — The ultimate cause of the current crisis is that Poland has not sufficiently confronted its past.
Polish Senate backs controversial Holocaust speech law
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 1, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The bill has already sparked a diplomatic dispute with Israel and drawn calls from the United States for a reconsideration.
Mike Pence, Zionist thinker
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 23, 2018
Mike Pence gave a great speech in the Knesset. There. I said it.
Palestinian Christians slam Pence’s pro-Israel faith
By Karin Laub — January 22, 2018
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian Christians say U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's brand of evangelical Christianity, with its fervent embrace of modern-day Israel as fulfillment of biblical prophecy, lacks their faith's compassion and justice, including for those who have endured half a century of Israeli occupation.
Pence: US Embassy to move to Jerusalem in 2019
By Lauren Markoe — January 22, 2018
(USA Today) — Pence made the announcement Monday (Jan. 22) at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
In Israel, a rabbinical plan to hide Africans facing deportation
By Lauren Markoe — January 18, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'If someone had told me 10 years ago this would happen, I’d have said a Jewish state would never send desperate refugees away to their deaths,' said Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
More Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews buck tradition and head for the army, higher ed
By Lauren Markoe — January 17, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'My father didn’t serve and neither did my nearly 100 cousins, not that I hold it against them,' said one ultra-Orthodox soldier.
