"In Israeli folk dancing, we always start with the right foot," Ian Arroyo called out over the swirling music to a crowd learning dance steps. Arroyo and other members of the Unit-E Dance Team, a group of Israeli-certified dance instructors from the Kol Simcha Congregation in Gainesville, led by example, teaching the traditional dance steps during the third annual Benefit to Support Israel. ...more

February 23, 2009

Nearly 30 months after an Israeli soldier was captured, students demanded his release in a protest outside the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. ...more

December 22, 2008

Residents of Jerusalem chose a secular businessman to lead one of the world's most revered and complicated cities, putting an end to five years of ultra-Orthodox Jewish control, election results showed Wednesday. ...more

November 13, 2008

With international efforts to increase sanctions against Iran at a standstill, many Israelis think their nation alone stands in the way of Tehran eventually building nuclear weapons. ...more

November 4, 2008

This is the time of year when we see skeletons in neighbors' yards hanging from trees or plastered against doors. So it seems appropriate to revisit Ezekiel 37, a scene that would blend in well with Halloween imaginings. ...more

October 22, 2008

TAMPA – Alonzo Browne estaba tan cerca de la víctima que pudo tocar la bota de este, pero las llamas eran tan intensan que no le permitían hacer más por este. ...more

February 6, 2008

Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister and the leader of the Labor Party, announced Sunday that he would remain in the government, stabilizing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition despite last week's harsh report on the political and military leaders' handling of the Lebanon war in 2006. ...more

February 4, 2008

The attack Sept. 6 by Israeli warplanes inside Syria struck what Israeli intelligence thinks was a nuclear-related facility that North Korea was helping to equip, current and former U.S. and Israeli officials say. ...more

September 18, 2007