Jewish American Heritage Month

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JNS.org The Obama administration expressed support for the new European Union guidelines requiring member states to stop carrying the "Made in Israel" label for products made in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria,...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee applaudeda letter by a bipartisan group of senators and representatives urgingUS trade representative Ambassador Michael Froman to push back againstnew EU guidelinesforlabelingIsraeligoods produced in West Bank Israeli...

US Won't Recognize Israel's Annexation of Syria's Golan Heights | White House: Netanyahu request puts rebels in awkward position...

JNS.org The Obama administration will not accept Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal for American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a senior White House official toldHaaretz, following Netanyahu's meeting with President...

Driving past it, one of the most mysterious structures in the Middle East is easy to miss. The prehistoric stone monument went unnoticed for centuries in a ...

Driving past it, one of the most mysterious structures in the Middle East is easy to miss. The prehistoric stone monument went unnoticed for centuries in a...

about the same age as Stonehenge. It's known in Arabic as Rujm el-Hiri, or "stone heap of the wild cat," and Gilgal Refaim in Hebrew, which means"Wheel of Giants" and refers to...

A Middle Eastern Stonehenge site was found in Golan Heights, a territory once owned by Syria that is now under Israel's control. The stones used to create the structure have a combined weight...

"Water," among other things, is one of the incentives Bibi pursues, when he asks US to recognize Syria's Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

VICE News visited Ziv Medical Center, a hospital just west of the Golan Heights, where injured Syrians cross the border to receive medical care with no questions asked.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling the European Union's move to label products made in West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights settlements "an immoral decision." The EU said products have to...

but in the Middle East.

JNS.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the European Union "should be ashamed" about its decision to approve guidelines requiring member states to stop carrying the "Made in Israel" label for products made...

The European Union released a highly anticipated set of guidelines Wednesday instructing member states how to differentiate between products produced within Israel's 1967 borders and products made in the occupied Palestinian territories. ...

The words "product of Israel" can no longer be used on anything sold in Europe that has been produced by Israeli businesses based in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights.

The Israeli government blasted the European Union over its decision Wednesday to approve special guidelines for labeling Israelibut not Palestinianproducts made in the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, territories Israel...

Archaeologists are learning more about the 'Wheel of Giants,' a massive structure in the Golan Heights that dates back to the time of Stonehenge and may have served a similar function.

The European Union Wednesday approved guidelines that would require member states to label goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights, despite stiff opposition from the Israeli government. The...

JNS.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urged President Barack Obama to recognize Israel's claim over the Golan Heights during their meeting at the White House on Monday. During the meeting, Netanyahu told...

Driving past it, one of the most mysterious structures in the Middle East is easy to miss. The prehistoric stone monument went unnoticed for centuries in a bare expanse of field on the...

Driving past it, one of the most mysterious structures in the Middle East is easy to miss. The prehistoric stone monument went unnoticed for centuries in a bare expanse of field on the...

The European Union Wednesday approved guidelines that would require member states to label goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights, despite stiff opposition from the Israeli government. The...

ARCHAEOLOGY-GOLANHEIGHTS/ (TV, PIX):Prehistoric "Stonehenge" monument in Golan Heights fuels mystery...

Israel has urged the US to recognize Syria's occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly seeking US recognition of Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights due to the Syrian conflict. Netanyahu allegedly wanted a "different thinking" regarding the issue during talks...

At their Monday meeting, prime minister hinted Israel would like to hear U.S. position on Israel's annexation of the territory, a move which was never recognized by international community.

Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to U.S., says Obama should back Israel's claim to the Golan Heights...

Israel is a country with incredibly diverse ecological assets. Moving from Eilat in the south to the Golan Heights......

The Golan Heights are still regarded internationally as illegally-occupied Syrian territory...

Environmental group Green Course says Israel is opting to 'surrender to polluting industry and the tycoons.'...

Ground forces, planes dispatched as 'suspicious object' observed crossing from Syria into Israeli air space...

The Russian military and Israel Defense Forces are coordinating activities on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the pro-Western Lebanese dailyAn-Naharreported on Tuesday. The report saidthiscoordination has "reached a very advanced level,"...

An apparent discovery of huge volumes of oil in the disputed Golan Heights brings the stakes of the Russian involvement in Syria to a new geopolitical dimension, F. William Engdahl stresses.

An apparent discovery of huge volumes of oil in the disputed Golan Heights brings the stakes of the Russian involvement in Syria to a new geopolitical dimension, F. William Engdahl stresses.

Yuval Bartov, whose predictions of vast reserves set the share price of Genie Energy surging, is counting on the area's unique geology.

Iran's semi-officialFars News Agencyreported on Tuesday that Russia was carrying out air strikes near Syria's border with Israel, as a warning signalto Jerusalem. Thereport centered on Russian strikes againstSyrian rebel forces located in...

Iran will take part in diplomatic talks on Syria's future in Vienna on 29 October...

According to Fars News, the strikes targeted positions belonging to Islamic State and the Nusra Front, al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria.

'Yesterday an Israeli civilian crossed our border in the Golan Heights into Syria to join the ranks of the enemy. We will act to nullify his citizenship'...

From their field hospital in the Golan Heights, Israeli doctors can see Syria's brutal civil war unfolding below, and the sound of mortar exploding signals each fresh wave of casualties from an area...

The Golan Heights is becoming a flashpoint between Israel and Iran in Syria's bloody conflict.

An Arab-Israeli was spotted paragliding across the Golan Heights border into Syria by an Israeli Defense Force watchtower Saturday afternoon, according to a statement posted on an official IDF Twitter account.

and elsewhere in Syria.

Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country's Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights...

An Arab-Israeli was spotted paragliding across the Golan Heights border into Syria by an Israeli Defense Force watchtower Saturday afternoon.

An Arab-Israeli was spotted paragliding across the Golan Heights border into Syria by an Israeli Defense Force watchtower Saturday afternoon, according to a statement posted on an official IDF...

An Arab-Israeli was spotted paragliding across the Golan Heights border into Syria by an Israeli Defense Force watchtower Saturday afternoon, according to a statement posted on an official IDF Twitter account. ...

The Shiite militia Hezbollah is pressing forward in southern Syria near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, territory that Israel's air force guards jealously.

Russian troops will be assisting the Iranians in war against ISIS. Israeli officials are concerned that Russian troops will be operating in the Golan Heights along with Hezbollah and Assad-led Syrian forces. Israel...

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