Rabbi Yisroel Rubin “leaves behind a tremendous legacy, serving as a Chabad emissary for the Capital Region for 52 years and playing an instrumental role in shaping the capital region’s Jewish community,” the governor told JNS.
“The largest Jewish city in the world has learned to live with antisemitic hate crime as the baseline three years after Oct. 7,” Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
Three years after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the families of Capt. Elay Adany and those he helped rescue remain bound by his final acts of courage.
The finance minister outlined his territorial agenda at Jerusalem’s first NatCon conference, three weeks before Israel’s election.
Speaking on “Tov LaYehudim,” JNS’s Hebrew-language podcast, Sa’ar said he had twice spoken by phone with the UAE foreign minister since the incident.
Israeli Defense Ministry officials expanded psychiatric care and added specialized recovery farms after treating roughly 30,000 injured soldiers since Oct. 7.
No Israeli security personnel were hurt.
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir presented the main lessons of the military’s Oct. 7 inquiries, honored a Unit 8200 warrant officer and said the IDF must grow to meet multi-front threats.
“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
“This is my face being plastered in places and falsely accusing me of things I don’t actually support,” Lenny Steinberg told JNS.
“Congress must honor his extraordinary courage, and we must be clear that this was an act of terrorism and an attack on the safety of international air travel,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer stated.
The Michigan Democrat says Capture Systems has “no place” in the state and should not receive public funding for its planned Sterling Heights facility.
“In many of the countries that have Holocaust envoys or antisemitism envoys, you have to empower them to be able to do something to be effective,” the U.S. special envoy on Jew-hatred told reporters. “You can’t neuter them.”
The GOP congressman “stands with Israel, and he stands up to antisemitism,” Stacy Caridi said.
“Now, funds go to Jewish Family Services, the kosher-food pantry, the Jewish day school, youth organizations, synagogue programs and college scholarships,” Dennis Feinberg, president of the Hebrew Orphans Society, tells JNS.
OCT. 7, THREE YEARS: REMEMBRANCE AND HONOR
The Jewish state lowered its flags to half-staff at 6:29 a.m. to launch commemorations honoring fallen soldiers and victims of the 2023 assault.
Memory and hope can coexist, and that choosing to live, rebuild and remain can itself become an act of defiance.
Three years after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the families of Capt. Elay Adany and those he helped rescue remain bound by his final acts of courage.
Capt. Ariel Armbrister helped direct the defense and evacuation of wounded soldiers before taking up a rifle herself to fight the Hamas terrorists who infiltrated the area.
A coffee cart in northern Israel honors Staff Sgt. Gal Hershko through the things he loved: Nature, friendship and bringing people together.
Nirit Shalev-Khalifa and her Yad Ben-Zvi team are preserving thousands of items from Gaza-border communities devastated in the Hamas massacre for future generations.
“Precisely because Hamas is so weak, it will try to challenge us,” the prime minister said. “We are ready for this.”
A hostile Democratic administration will pile on sanction after sanction.
Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.
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The war transformed a decades-old legal and political dispute into an urgent fight over military manpower, equality of service and the future of Haredi society.
At its core, the dispute is about what military service, Torah study and citizenship mean in the Jewish state.
Originally intended to accommodate a few hundred Torah scholars, the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshivah students from IDF service evolved into one of Israel’s most contentious public policy issues.
Despite holding a fraction of Knesset seats, Shas and United Torah Judaism have become indispensable coalition partners, reshaping Israeli politics.
Points of view from across the Jewish world
Press releases from Israel, and around the pro-Israel and Jewish world
Recalling those lost, learning from families and survivors, and looking ahead with hope.
A celebration of Jewish pride, culture and resilience comes to Gateway Park on Jan. 24, 2027.
“While the challenges remain immense, the strength and compassion we see every day give us hope for the future,” said JDC CEO Ariel Zwang.
AFHU also promotes Alana Menitoff to the position of philanthropy officer for the Southeast region.
She plans to focus on strengthening multigenerational connections to the Technion, drawn from her own family’s history with the institution.
Brings more than two decades of experience in donor engagement and philanthropic management.
Eight laureates recognized for contributions to medicine, physics, chemistry and mathematics.
Rabbi Greg Litcofsky, executive director of recruitment and partnerships: “It brings us together—across generations, programs and the different names we called it—around one shared experience.”
AJU alum to guide convening strategy and national leadership initiatives.
When ideology outranks professional ethics “to do no harm,” the patient on the table pays for it.