All today's headlines

President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem will be clear: Israelis, don’t let your Jewish Athens become a Sparta of eternal war.

The region is still important to the United States, but less so than it was a decade or two ago; meanwhile, Israel's dependence on the U.S. continues to grow.

Omar al-Bashir took power in a 1989 coup that toppled an elected government; he has been charged with genocide and other crimes during the conflict in the Darfur region.

America has been Israel’s largest trading partner for decades; in 2012, total trade between the two countries was $19.4 billion, excluding diamonds.

Reports of the evaporation of the 'peace process' were grossly exaggerated, it seems, as Obama’s trip to Ramallah and his speech in Jerusalem may prove.

A new facility in the West Bank, built with World Bank funding and operated by Palestinian entrepreneurs, will likely serve both Palestinians and Jewish settlers.

At Limmud FSU’s annual Jewish learning conference in Princeton, New Jersey, second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants find common ground and plenty of reasons to sing.