When the music stops, Naif Ghawanmeh, 45, takes a seat in front of the fire. The night is chilly, and for the first time in ...

The first draft of a statement was criticized by a Jewish official who said it didn’t forcefully condemn Hamas. Another draft ...

Ibrahim Miari's one-man play about growing up in a multicultural household in Israel is as entertaining as it is unsubtle.

“In the Middle East,” the Israeli general and politician Ehud Barak once said, “a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.” Barak would know. He was Israel’s prime minister in 2000, a year ...

Antisemitism Decoded is the Forward’s biweekly newsletter that helps you separate the signal from the noise and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. I ...

We're going to go now to someone who knows what goes into trying to make peace in the Middle East. That's Daniel Levy. He was an Israeli peace negotiator under prime ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak ...

The latest honor for President Donald Trump not only required Israel to “break a convention,” but it proved him to be unquestionably the “Worst Hitler ever.” A common refrain from the hyperbolic left, ...

Americans are granted the political example of George Washington, who withdrew after two terms as president. Israelis have Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (1948-53, 1955-63), a genius who nonetheless ...