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“An agreement was indeed close, but every time something new pops up,” Professor Eyal Zisser told JNS.
The pontiff called on “all those in positions of responsibility to commit themselves to this path, to bring about a ceasefire and to release the hostages.”
“Departing from decades of Washington appeasement policy and status quo, President Trump has reshaped the trajectory of the Middle East,” said Israel Allies Foundation U.S. director Jordanna McMillan.
The “very profound” deepening of Israel’s connection to Judaism of several decades accelerated “intensely” after Oct. 7, Rabbi Jeffrey Woolf told JNS.
The annual weeklong evangelical show of support for Israel is the largest solidarity mission to Israel since the war against Hamas started two years ago following the October 7 massacre.
Flights with foreign carriers were canceled due to congestion and delays in leaving Ukraine by land.
Anticipating government recognition of “Palestine, 52 municipalities defied the prohibition, which the interior ministry said was for “neutrality.”
“There’s a very technical definition about what genocide might be, but more and more people are raising the issue,” the pontiff said.
“For many, being present in synagogue has become their way of pushing back against antisemitism,” said Rabbi Brian Strauss, who leads a Conservative synagogue in Houston.
“I chose to write about Ezra and Nehemiah because of all the biblical works of Tanach. It resonates most with the times we are living through,” Yael Leibowitz said.
“For most of our country’s history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation,” U.S. President Donald Trump said at a hearing. “In many schools today, students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda.”
A lawsuit in the United States accuses the rapporteur of smearing ministries as war criminals by claiming they enabled Israeli “genocide.”
