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While the situation of Syria’s Druze community remains “dire,” the prime minister says civilian attempts to assist family over the border are dangerous and hamper the IDF’s efforts.
The IDF “will soon raise the level of its responses” if Syrian forces continue to threaten the Druze community in southern Syria, said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
The landmark ruling stops short of saying that women are entitled to be ordained as rabbis, but is a major step forward in the advancement of female Torah scholars in Israel.
Police said that Guy House, 47, was searching for the mother of his children when he barged into Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, shooting two people and wounding three others.
“I love the fact that churches can endorse a political candidate,” U.S. President Donald Trump stated.
In his new autobiography, Irwin Gabriel Katsof describes how he nearly lost his soul chasing after money, power and status.
All intelligence personnel, including cyber units, will now study Arabic and Islamic culture as part of sweeping reforms to address intelligence gaps.
Youssef Msibih was dismissed by the board of his mosque in Alkmaar after videos emerged of him singing Hatikvah in Arabic.
The group laid a wreath and lit an eternal flame in honor of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies during the Holocaust.
“When we first came here, there was no glatt-kosher meat, no glatt-kosher restaurant, no kosher bakery,” said the regional director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Florida. “Everything we needed, we had to bring or ship or find.”
“These growing ties reflect our shared values of liberty, innovation and faith,” said Israel’s deputy foreign minister.
“The war that broke out after Oct. 7 is not a war between Israel and Hamas or Israel and Hezbollah but a war between two worlds.”
