Alter Wiener recently appeared before lawmakers to press for mandatory statewide curriculum standards requiring teachers to educate students about the Holocaust and genocide

The pain digs a hole and creates a space for all the complexities of broken hearts and loss

'I want Jexit!' spray-painted on headquarters of US union, whose head Randi Weingarten says incident will 'mobilize us to come together'

Serviceman undergoes emergency surgery for serious gunshot wound to head; condition of civilian injured in the shooting improves, along with victims of other attacks

Thursday's deadly attack in the West Bank underlines warnings about the flammability of the West Bank, but responses don't come without controversy

Latest 'March of Return' protest held as IDF intensifies crackdown on West Bank in response to spate of attacks blamed on Hamas

Treasury Department says IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv supported both government and opposition groups and even planned attacks by mercenaries to destabilize situation

Ultra-Orthodox soldiers, many who serve in the Netzah Yehuda battalion, often experience challenges of ostracism from their families and social pressure not to join the IDF