“All the American media put me and the State of Israel under pressure to admit that there is starvation in the Gaza Strip,” Ofir Akunis told JNS. “I insisted there was no starvation, because that was the truth.”
The “model areas” where the Lebanese Armed Forces are being deployed are making progress, said American diplomat Michel Issa.
The Israeli premier predicted a major wave of aliyah and vowed to eliminate remaining threats from Iran and its regional proxies.
The armed officers allegedly entered an area under Israeli security responsibility, seized the soldier’s weapon and drove him into Area A near Ramallah.
The New York City mayor was asked whether he still stands by NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo and whether the controversy undermines the socialist movement.
‘The Holocaust cannot be a static discipline that is discussed and forgotten,” said Gideon Taylor of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is funding the program.
“Seattle’s next chief of police must be visible, accountable and present in our neighborhoods, listening to residents, workers and businesses across our city,” stated Katie Wilson, mayor of Seattle who, in the past, has accused Israel of “genocide.”
The Macalester College sociology course will explore “the history of the conflict from the rise of Zionism and resistance to it, including both Palestinian resistance and the contemporary voices of dissenting American Jews.”
“Telling millions of followers that Jewish Americans are bringing violence on themselves is blatantly antisemitic and one of the oldest tropes in the book,” the N.J. Democrat stated.
US President Donald Trump announced that he would lower the American flag nationwide for one week in honor of the star of sound and stage.
“Vanderbilt is known, I think, fairly well as a university that welcomes and has a welcoming environment for our Jewish students,” James Kellerhouse, assistant vice chancellor and executive director of operations and engagement for Vanderbilt in New York, told JNS.
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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.
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He is an experienced nonprofit executive with more than three decades of leadership in Jewish communal organizations, philanthropy and Israel advocacy.
The $9 million renovation of the main building on the Toby & Leon Cooperman Campus is expected to be completed this fall.
A response to violence and intimidation is underway in state legislatures and in federal court, though more measures are needed.
New partnership brings together mental health expertise and contemporary antisemitism education to help colleges and universities better support Jewish students and strengthen campus communities.
A surge in the region’s high-tech job openings represents a significant recruitment effort, with more than 900 candidates applying within just a few days.
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Ayelet Hariv, the widow of Maj. (res.) Aviram Hariv, said: “There was a sense that everyone understood and was there to lend a hand and give you some breathing room.”
Twenty-four educators gain new perspectives and resources during an eight-day Jewish National Fund-USA and Muss mission, strengthening their ability to inspire the next generation of Zionists.