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A short prayer has been composed for combat soldiers who must eat on Yom Kippur, Lt. Col. Rabbi Udi Schwartz, head of the Military Rabbinate’s Halacha Department, tells JNS.
Muhammad Suleiman Byouk infiltrated Israel during the 2023 massacre, and throughout the ensuing war he planted explosive devices across the Strip to harm IDF troops.
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis will lead the Yom Kippur services alongside survivors and bereaved relatives of the victims.
The volume of commodities transiting the strategic waterway has reached a new peak in the last two weeks, said Adm. Brad Cooper.
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Husam Zomlot described Palestinians as “the original Christians.”
Iran might target Jewish leaders in the country, ASIO Director-General Burgess said.
The man arrested, an Afghan national, made antisemitic remarks at the scene.
Brandon Johnson mentioned the pro-Israel group despite it having never “spent a dime opposing you or any other candidate for local office,” the Jewish United Fund of Chicago wrote to the mayor.
“We already have demonstrated that hate and hateful acts are not going to be tolerated, and so if we could even take it a step further to define antisemitism and what that is like, then I want to be able to take that,” Jeannette Sánchez-Palacios told JNS.
Western observer tells JNS that Israel should seek tangible returns rather than being a silent partner.
The IDF said it would continue to operate in the security zone in accordance with the ceasefire agreement with Beirut.
IDF troops also seized more than 100 weapons and searched over 1,200 locations, including an explosives-manufacturing facility.
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem said it will sell products from Judea and Samaria at its annual Feast of Tabernacles gathering this month.
“This bill works very hard to balance our First Amendment constitutional rights between the right to free speech and the right to worship,” Rep. Tom Suozzi said.
“New York as we know it would not be New York as we know it without the Jews,” the prominent Reform rabbi told JNS.
Police are increasing patrols around the Jewish neighborhood for Shabbat and Yom Kippur following the incident.
The move is part of a growing effort by the Trump administration to root out Jew-hatred in Latin America, which flourished among leftist governments after Oct. 7.
Prosecutors say warden Samir Ousman Alsheikh “inflicted and ordered subordinates to inflict severe physical and mental pain and suffering on prisoners.”
‘I’m never going to forget this davening, two days or three days before Yom Kippur, where we’re again saying, ‘We’re here,’” Rabbi Haskel Lookstein told JNS.
“I did everything I could to not make a federal case out of this, and the mayor instead escalated and retaliated,” Margot Cleveland, who sued the Michigan city, told JNS.
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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.
“There was broad consensus among the City Council, healthcare organizations and Jewish groups that antisemitism in medicine must be addressed more aggressively,” the American Jewish Medical Association told JNS
The children’s entertainer told Rolling Stone she has not been deterred by warnings that her outspoken support for Palestinians could cost her viewers and business partnerships.
Press releases from Israel, and around the pro-Israel and Jewish world
So far, it has awarded more than $8.5 million to 28 camps—12 in round one and 16 in round 2, including 23 overnight camps and five day camps.
The 2001 Durban Forum didn’t just pass a declaration. It handed activists a playbook: Weaponize the language of human rights to target one country.
INBI aims to advance Israeli biomedical research and accelerate the development of new therapies, bringing together 15 Israeli research institutions and medical centers to help move scientific research.
Three Alexander Muss High School summer programs focused on Jewish history, cultural experiences and entrepreneurship.
Merrill Eisenhower Atwater will discuss Holocaust remembrance, education and his great-grandfather’s legacy at the Knight Theater Sept. 30.
Study of more than 1.2 million Israelis finds kibbutz residents had significantly lower mortality risk than ultra-Orthodox and non-ultra-Orthodox Jews living in urban communities.
Affiliation of Caracas’s Colegio UE Moral y Luces “Herzl-Bialik” comes as Venezuela’s Jewish community works to recover from June earthquakes.
Remembrance in the Jewish tradition is a powerful call to action.
The organization’s 101 emergency center also received more than 2 million calls, while MDA collected nearly 282,000 blood units.
Recipes include traditional holiday foods alongside dishes influenced by Jewish cuisines from around the world.