WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Unqualified public expressions of support for Israel from President Joe Biden. The United States and other nations scrambling to protect Israel from rockets. Congress accelerating defense assistance to Israel. When Iran attacked Israel on Saturday, it pulled Israel out of the isolation it was sinking into due to its war with […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On Saturday night, Iran fired more than 200 missiles and drones at Israel. The unprecedented attack — from Iranian soil to Israeli territory — is the most direct confrontation ever between the two longtime adversaries. It threatens to spiral into a broader regional war whose consequences could also likewise be without precedent. […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Iran launched more than 100 drones at Israel late Saturday, in a gambit that may be aimed at overloading Israel’s air defenses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was ready to strike back, portending an escalation in a growing regional conflict surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. “We are watching the threat. It […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s soccer association has signed a cooperation agreement with South America’s soccer confederation that opens the door for it to compete in the continent’s elite tournaments, such as the Copa America, alongside soccer powerhouses like Argentina and Uruguay. Israel currently plays in the Union of European Football Associations and has given no […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The United States is barring government personnel and their families in Israel from traveling outside several major urban areas as warnings of an Iranian attack on the country grow more intense. Concerns have mounted in recent days over Iran’s potential response to an alleged Israeli strike on an Iranian embassy building in […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The New Israel Fund opened its latest fundraising pitch Wednesday with a Passover-themed plea: “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” The reference to the upcoming holiday was not the only way the appeal was topical. The U.S.-based nonprofit, which funds a variety of progressive organizations in Israel, was, for the […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) – While fellow Ivy League institutions landed in hot water over their handling of campus antisemitism since the Israel-Hamas war began six months ago, Princeton University has largely evaded the spotlight. That changed this week, as the U.S. Department of Education opened a Title VI investigation into antisemitism allegations at the elite New […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A lecturer at an Israeli university is going on unpaid leave after students demanded he be fired for signing a petition that claims Israel “appears to” be guilty of genocide. Regev Nathansohn, who teaches communications at Sapir College, is one of two dozen Israeli academics who have signed a petition calling for […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Holocaust survivors in Israel relived their trauma on Oct. 7, when Hamas’ attack on their country was the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazis were defeated. Some were injured, hid for their lives and were displaced from their homes, in echoes of their experiences as children. Now, they will get a […]
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((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Organizations and individuals around the world have donated at least $1.4 billion toward Israel’s recovery from the attack of Oct. 7, according to a new report published by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. The donations, coupled with widespread pro-Israel activism in the Diaspora and the arrival in Israel of tens of thousands […]
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