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Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.
Israeli troops carried out several counterterror operations during the holiday, confiscating weapons, drones and other military equipment.
The Israeli military continues to carry out precise strikes on terrorist operatives across the Strip .
The Omani terrorist was identified as Hamam al-Hammami, whose services as a pilot were rejected three times before Dubai hire.
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“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
“The arrests announced today disrupted a global financing network that was supplying Hamas with the funds needed to continue its campaign of destroying innocent lives,” the assistant U.S. attorney general for national security said.
Rabbi Rachel Timoner, of Congregation Beth Elohim, told JNS that there ought to be a conversation “to break down assumptions.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog plans to recommend that all receive the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism, Israel’s highest civilian honor.
“For many in our city, this will be a day of mourning, a day of reflection, and we are aware of a number of vigil events being planned,” said James Harman, deputy assistant commissioner for operations at the Metropolitan Police.
The Israeli military says 118 served in Hamas’s military wing and 49 in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, while 17 participated in the Oct. 7 massacre.
The documentary misrepresents its targeting procedures, use of artificial intelligence and efforts to minimize civilian casualties, said the Israeli military.
The prime minister tells Yaniv Hayun he deserves a “global medal of honor” and says Israel will join the probe into the apparent attempt to crash Flight FZ1073.
Following the meeting, the opposition leader said “the public has no reason to panic.”
“Decisions about faith and religion were made by secular careerists in cubicles and lawyers running around with red tape,” the U.S. defense secretary said.
The plaintiffs filed the amended complaint after a federal judge dismissed their original filing in July for failing to meet federal pleading requirements.
“It is regrettable that Amb. Huckabee is peddling Benjamin Netanyahu’s talking points,” Meshal Hamad Al Thani wrote.
John Anthony Proia III allegedly harassed the victim at least 40 times using multiple phone numbers in August and September.
“Many of the leadership are saying the right things,” the New Jersey congressman said. “Now, it’s a question of making it happen and making it happen fast.”
“The feeling that our new home could be desecrated so quickly—really unsettling and really sad,” Lenny Steinberg, of the Hillel, told JNS.
The attorney must pay $6,000 for pursuing frivolous conspiracy claims against donors to pro-Israel groups.
Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.
Their parties remain separatist, even as the community seeks better societal integration.
The attorney general urged Israel’s Supreme Court to uphold the disqualification of Sami Abu Shehadeh over an article praising the Oct. 7 terrorist assault.
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More than eight decades ago, amid the Holocaust in Poland, a rabbi looked at a Jewish child beside a Torah scroll and saw the Jewish future.
After an entire year of reading the Torah, when we reach its end, we celebrate. Then, after all that dancing, we open the Torah again—immediately.
The Torah itself teaches us to keep moving. We finish, and we begin again. We reach the end, and immediately, we return to the beginning.
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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.
“Someone’s obviously going to make a lot of money selling condos,” Katie Wilson said during the book discussion, referring to Christian Zionist support for plans to redevelop Gaza.
Press releases from Israel, and around the pro-Israel and Jewish world
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.
A weekend-long celebration bringing together generations of BCI participants, alumni, faculty and friends to honor 85 years of Jewish learning, community, creativity and connection.
“Be the safe place for your Jewish peers,” Rebecca Heinrichs, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told participants.
Students served as educators, chaplains, organizers, clergy interns and camp leaders at Jewish institutions and communities.
Rehearsals for the 2026-27 season begin this fall in the United States and Israel.
American Friends of NATAL, in collaboration with the Columbia University PTSD Research and Treatment Program, will host an Oct. 8 conference in New York City addressing “rolling trauma” and its effects on families and communities.
The meeting at the Kirya in Tel Aviv focuses on closer coordination during national emergencies.