Benjamin Kerstein
ARTICLES BY: Benjamin Kerstein
Report: White House and Israel Increasingly at Odds on US-Iran Talks in Vienna
The Biden administration and the Israeli government are increasingly at odds over the ongoing US-Iran talks in Vienna, with Israel believing its concerns regarding a...
Watchdog Group Report Echoes Calls for More Oversight After Biden Administration Renews Aid to Palestinian Authority
With the resumption of US aid to the Palestinian Authority, a top watchdog group is urging the Biden administration to take a series of measures...
As They Do Every Year, Israelis Swim With Sharks Off the Coast of Hadera
Despite warnings from the authorities, Israelis swam with the sharks on Monday off the coast of the town of Hadera in what has become an...
Federal Prosecutors Ask Court to Keep Nazi-Sympathizing Capitol Rioter in Jail Due to Threat to New Jersey Jewish Community
US Justice Department prosecutors, in a court filing on Friday, said that a known Nazi sympathizer and army reservist who was arrested in connection to...
Pro-Israel Groups Slam Bill Putting Conditions on Aid to Israel Co-Sponsored by Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez
Pro-Israel groups blasted on Thursday a new bill set to be introduced in Congress by Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum that would condition US aid to...
Seventeen-Year-Old Yeshiva Student Wins Israel’s Annual International Bible Quiz on Independence Day
Israel held its annual International Bible Quiz for Youth on Thursday, as the country marked its 73rd Independence Day. N12 reported that the winner was Gilad...
‘It’s Not Only Numbers’: Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon Remembers Sacrifice of Father on Eve of Israel’s Remembrance Day
For former Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, Yom HaZikaron — Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers, which began Tuesday evening — should teach...
City University of New York’s Student Senate Votes Not to Adopt IHRA Definition of Antisemitism: ‘Devastating to Jewish Students’
The City University of New York’s student senate voted down a resolution to adopt the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism on Sunday, in a process...
Israeli Security Services Expose Iranian Plot to Kidnap Israelis Using False Social Media Profiles to Lure Them Abroad
Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service and the Mossad foreign intelligence agency have uncovered an Iranian plot to use fake online personas on social media...
Randi Weingarten and the Antisemitism That Marx Built
It was once said that every generation must learn anti-communism for itself, and much the same is true of antisemitism. B’kol dor v’dor, as the...
Iran’s Top Nuclear Official Calls Major Malfunction at Natanz Facility, Attributed to Israel, an Act of ‘Nuclear Terrorism’
Iran, one of the foremost state sponsors of terrorism in the world, claimed that a major malfunction at its nuclear facility in Natanz early Sunday...
US Antisemitism Watchdog Opposes Ethnic Studies Course Requirement in California Assembly Hearing
A Jewish organization that concentrates on fighting antisemitism in schools and academia told a California Assembly hearing on making a controversial ethnic studies curriculum a...
Ahead of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Survivors Share Stories of Surviving the Pandemic
As Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day began on Wednesday night, four survivors told Israeli news site N12 about their experiences facing the COVID-19 pandemic — telling...
Ahead of Vienna Talks, US Envoy Says Iran’s Missile Program, Regional Activities Should Be Addressed in ‘Follow-On’ Deal
With the US and Iran set to commence indirect talks in Vienna on returning to the JCPOA nuclear deal this week, the Biden administration’s envoy...
