With just days until the mission to the International Space Station lifts off, Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe talks about the tensions before launch, his relationship with Ilan Ramon who died when the Columbia shuttle crashed on its return to earth, life under zero gravity, and the option that his daughter could replace him if he is unable to fly.

Gabriel Noronha, who served as special advisor for Iran in the US State Department and as a Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was compelled to come forward with details of the negotiations by his former colleagues within the US government.

At the root of the regional conflict is the refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist, compounded by a deep denial of reality and perpetuating the notion that the Jewish state was "conceived in sin."

A film recounting a tale of African bondage and freedom, told through modern-day social media, becomes the focal point for a UN-sponsored event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

As the Ukrainian nation, so close to both Poles and Jews, is waging its own struggle for self-determination, it is both our moral and political duty to support it. Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa in a special column.