US Senate takes first step toward ending record government shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown on Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care... Read more »

Another Israel-Iran war increasingly seen as just a matter of time, NYT reports

Another Israel-Iran war is “only a matter of time,” according to a report by The New York Times, which says Iran still has a stockpile of enriched uranium and is racing to... Read more »

Seeking to get off US blacklist, spyware firm NSO taps ex-envoy Friedman as chairman

Israeli-founded spyware firm NSO Group has appointed former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman as executive chairman, as part of a bid to get off Washington’s blacklist, where it was placed in... Read more »

Hamas announces it will return body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, held since 2014

The military wing of Hamas announced Sunday that the body of IDF officer Lt. Hadar Goldin, held by the terror organization since 2014, will be returned to Israel at 2 p.m., a... Read more »

The history of Naot sandals: The heart and sole of Israel

There’s a good chance your favorite Jewish camp counselor, that effortlessly cool older cousin who did a teen tour in Israel, or even your Sunday Hebrew school teacher, owned a pair of... Read more »

A leak by the IDF’s top internal investigator is shaking Israel

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of graphic violence. The IDF’s Military Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, was arrested on Sunday, after admitting last week to her involvement in leaking a... Read more »

France probes suspected terror threat linked to 2015 Paris attacker

PARIS — France’s anti-terror unit said Saturday three people were in custody as part of an investigation into a suspected terror threat linked to Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving perpetrator of the... Read more »

US sidelining Israel on decision-making at Gaza ceasefire HQ, official says

Israel is playing a secondary role to the US at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat, where the Gaza ceasefire is being monitored by at least a dozen nations, an... Read more »

Hostage mom Sylvia Cunio says ‘unreal joy’ to have her sons home, but won’t return to Nir Oz

Caught between broad smiles and sudden tears, former hostage mother Sylvia Cunio sat in her Kiryat Gat kitchen, describing the “unreal joy” of having her two sons, released hostages David and Ariel... Read more »

How Gefilteria’s Jeremy Yoskowitz is keeping Jewish food alive

For many Jews, the words “gefilte fish” conjure two things: the Passover seder or the beloved children’s book, “The Carp in the Bathtub.”  In many homes, the ground-fish delicacy is treated as... Read more »