NEW YORK (JTA) — Malcolm Hoenlein, who is the professional head of one of American Jewry’s most influential organizations and who sits on the board of a large Israeli energy company, told JTA he sees no conflict between those roles. Read more » »

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Mike Pompeo {Originally posted to the JNS website} Major American Jewish organizations are pleased by the nomination of CIA director Mike Pompeo to succeed Rex Tillerson as U.S. Read more » »

From time to time, a book comes along that does much to shed light on a vexing issue. One such book is the recently released Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman (Random House, 2018). Read more » »

Malcolm Hoenlein, center, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Stephen Greenberg, right, its chairman, meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, February 9, 2016. Read more » »

Youth Interactive, an after-school program for at-risk youth in Santa Barbara, is not your typical nonprofit, so it was quite fitting that it have an atypical fundraiser. Read more » »

(March 15, 2018 / JNS) Major American Jewish organizations are pleased by the nomination of CIA director Mike Pompeo to succeed Rex Tillerson as U.S. secretary of state, and some are expressing hope that Pompeo will reverse Tillerson’s recent decision to side with the PLO in a lawsuit by victims of terrorism. Read more » »

Two of America’s largest Jewish organizations are raising concerns about Malcolm Hoenlein’s leadership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in the wake of a Forward report about his undisclosed role on the board of an Israeli gas firm. Read more » »

Eddie Jacobson’s life-long friend Harry Truman was hardly known for fulsome praise. So when Truman described him “as fine a man as ever walked,” it was a tribute not to be taken lightly. Humble and unaffected, Jacobson did not seek out a high place in the world. However when given the chance to act nobly, he did. Read more » »

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister has been praised for joining the commemoration of the deportation and mass murder of Macedonia’s Jewish community in 1943 – although critics said his failure to apologise for Bulgaria’s role in the events was regrettable. Read more » »

Posted on 09 March 2018. By Donald H. Harrison Donald H. Harrison Mark D. Zimmerman SAN DIEGO — Humor columnist Mark D. Read more » »