We also want to caution that diplomacy doesn't end with the signing of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, said a member of J Street.

There is a sense of optimism among members of the Palestinian community in New Jersey that a peace settlement will begin this weekend, despite delays to the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

In the wake of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the fate of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander of Tenafly is still uncertain. Hamas released a video not long ago in which he pleaded for Israel to negotiate a deal.

The losses suffered in the Palestinian American community have been immense. They felt the ceasefire should have happened sooner.

A New Jersey family is patiently waiting for their son, Edan Alexander, to return home as Israel and Hamas get closer to signing a ceasefire deal. Israel has agreed to pull

Hamas Military Wing via Social Media Edan Alexander, a 20-year-old from New Jersey, is also believed ... when Hamas terrorists swept into Israel and made off with at least 250 hostages and killed ...

The lawmakers emphasized that U.S. airlines’ suspended flights have given El Al ‘a monopoly on direct flights’ creating ‘burdensome price increases for our constituents’

American families of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza have been in contact with negotiators as a draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages has been agreed to in principle​, CBS News has learned.

A citizen of the U.S., Canada and Israel, Judi was the wife of Gad Haggai who taught English and mindfulness and helped students with anxiety. The couple was killed during a morning walk near their kibbutz by Hamas-led militants, who took their bodies back to Gaza.

Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU) has appointed Andrea Goren, a third-generation supporter of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as the new chairman of the organization’s board of directors. Goren, a New York-based finance executive, assumed the role at the recently held A4BGU meeting in New York.

The pending ceasefire in Gaza is in a war zone half a world away, but here in the tri-state region, connections to that part of the world — on both sides of the