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A coffee cart in northern Israel honors Staff Sgt. Gal Hershko through the things he loved: Nature, friendship and bringing people together.
The suspects allegedly prepared a chlorine bomb while scoping Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue for a second attack.
Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.
“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
“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.
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 .
“We feel that we made one huge achievement and that is to move the conversation from whether these crimes happened to what are their consequences,” Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy told JNS.
“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.
In videos posted to Instagram displaying his guns, Duncan Fraser MacDonald allegedly said, of Hitler, that “the Austrian painter was correct.”
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.
Rabbi Rachel Timoner, of Congregation Beth Elohim, told JNS that there ought to be a conversation “to break down assumptions.”
“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.”
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.
HAREDIM IN ISRAEL:
A Series
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
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.
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.