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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Sheikh Yahya Cholil Staquf, leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, at his Jerusalem office, June 14, 2018 (Haim Zach, GPO)

June 15, 2018, 6:28 am

Netanyahu unexpectedly meets with Indonesian Muslim leader

Yahya Staquf, who heads world’s largest Muslim organization, says he wants to promote ties with Jerusalem, but stresses he came to affirm 'Palestine's sovereignty'

By AP

PM Benjamin Netanyahu with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in Jerusalem, June 13, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

June 13, 2018, 3:04 pm

Bulgaria sympathetic to Israel wanting Jerusalem recognition — to a point

On visit, PM Borisov insists he won't relocate embassy, though he's 'not indifferent' to a sovereign state wanting its choice for capital to be recognized by the world

By Raphael Ahren

Yahya Staquf, secretary general of the 60 million member Nahdlatul Ulama poses for a photograph, overlooking Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Craighton)

June 12, 2018, 2:52 pm

In Israel, top Indonesian cleric calls for ‘compassion’ between Muslims and Jews

Yahya Staquf, who heads world’s largest Muslim organization, says he wants to promote ties with Jerusalem, but stresses he came to affirm 'Palestine's sovereignty'

By Raphael Ahren

June 12, 2018, 12:32 am

Visiting Israel, Indonesian Muslim leader risks backlash at home

Yahya Staquf calls for 'new discourse' between faiths as he meets with academics and religious leaders; critics say his trip is tantamount to recognizing Israel

By CARON CREIGHTON

Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz at the AJC Global Forum in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 11, 2018, 11:56 pm

Israel’s security in Austria’s ‘national interest,’ visiting chancellor says

In Jerusalem, Sebastian Kurz acknowledges guilt for Holocaust crimes and vows to fight anti-Semitism, does not address far-right coalition partner

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 11, 2018, 2:35 pm

That Israel-America Jewish divide

As the communities move farther apart, a new plan for Jewish unity is needed urgently

By Steven Bayme

June 10, 2018, 11:52 pm

PM urges Diaspora Jews to visit Western Wall pluralistic prayer platform

The Jewish people's unity is 'not always amenable to daily politics,' Netanyahu tells AJC Global Forum, indicating he won't implement 2016 deal

By Raphael Ahren

Israelis hold American and Israeli flags with the new US embassy in the background in Jerusalem, Monday, May 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

June 10, 2018, 2:46 pm

Poll shows deep divisions between Israeli and US Jews on Trump, peace, religion

AJC survey shows Israelis much more supportive of US leader's handling of relations, far more accepting of ultra-Orthodox monopoly over religious affairs in Jewish state

By AP and TOI staff

June 8, 2018, 7:01 pm

The American Jewish Committee stands with Israel

We once were ambivalent about Zionism, but no longer

By John Shapiro

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) holds a joint press conference with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini in Brussels, Belgium, October 11, 2017.(Avi Ohayon/GPO)

June 8, 2018, 5:28 pm

Netanyahu said to snub EU foreign policy chief, causing her to nix Israel visit

Amid diplomatic tensions, PM reportedly rejects Mogherini's request to meet on sidelines of Jerusalem event. Top Israeli source: 'Her positions are very hostile to Israel'

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt addresses the American Jewish Committee's Women’s Leadership Board Spring Luncheon in New York on April 24, 2018. (Courtesy / Ellen Dubin Photography)

April 25, 2018, 1:31 am

Trump’s Mideast envoy: Peace impossible when Palestinians celebrate violence

Jason Greenblatt tells American Jewish Committee Hamas is solely to blame for Gaza violence and should turn its attention to helping residents

By Eric Cortellessa

One of numerous photographs taken following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. Here, a Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home (public domain)

April 9, 2018, 5:05 am

How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history

Until the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was the archetype for anti-Jewish persecution, according to a new book about the massacre's long afterlife

By Matt Lebovic

US President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters on August 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump visited FEMA headquarters to receive a briefing on the hurricane season. (Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

March 13, 2018, 3:59 am

The US government is funding houses of worship. Here’s why no one noticed

Obama's support for once-controversial faith-based partnerships helped Jewish groups embrace a move to provide federal disaster relief to churches and synagogues

By Ron Kampeas

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Images/via JTA)

March 10, 2018, 8:10 pm

AJC says Putin’s comments on Jews like ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’

After Russian leader suggests Jews could be behind US election tampering, opposition lawmakers in Israel calls on government to condemn him

By TOI staff and Agencies

An Israeli cartoon criticizing human rights violations in Iran, displayed next to the European Parliament in Brussels starting Wednesday, February 20, 2018. (Photo by AJC, TICP)

February 20, 2018, 3:44 pm

Snubbed by EU, Israeli cartoons slamming Iran go on display

European Parliament vetoes exhibition focusing on human rights violations in Islamic Republic as 'too controversial'

By Michael Bachner