Author: David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As the American-Israeli poet Marty Herskovitz thought about the upcoming Passover holiday, the prospect of singing “Dayenu” at the first seder since his country was attacked didn’t sit right with him. The classic Passover song, whose title means “It would have been enough,” expresses gratitude about how much God has done for […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union speech on Thursday, the audience will include 17 relatives of Americans held captive or murdered by Hamas terrorists in Israel. A list published Monday by the Families of the American Hostages in Gaza coalition named relatives of six hostages still held […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon into Israel on Monday killed one Thai agricultural worker and wounded seven, two in serious condition, after landing near the northern Israeli town of Margoliot. The fatality was the seventh civilian death in Israel from its fight with the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The United States blocked consideration of a United Nations Security Council resolution blaming Israel for the dozens of deaths that occurred during the the delivery of humanitarian assistance in northern Gaza on Thursday, as world leaders stepped up their calls for a ceasefire. The U.S. decision to block the veto came hours […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Student government leaders at the University of British Columbia rejected a ballot measure Wednesday night that would have called for an end to Hillel’s presence on campus, following intense pushback from Vancouver Jewish groups and capping months of discord between the Hillel and its critics in the student body. According to the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A gunman believed to be a Palestinian police officer killed two Israelis at a West Bank gas station. One of the victims in the terror attack in the central West Bank settlement of Eli was a 17-year-old boy, and one was a man aged 57, according to Kan radio, Israel’s public broadcaster. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Dozens of Palestinians died during a stampede to access aid in Gaza City on Thursday, a tally that Hamas said numbered 104. Hundreds of people were injured in the incident, including 10 whom the Israel Defense Forces said its soldiers had shot. The incident is the most dramatic marker yet of a […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their families will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.” Presented annually since 2013, the award is given by the Genesis Prize Foundation and has historically gone to Jewish celebrities or public figures. More recently, […]

When Gloria Solomon was living in London’s suburbs with her husband and four sons, she cautioned her boys against wearing kippahs in the streets.  Their Jewish school bus was being stoned multiple times a week, and by 2005 the antisemitism was so overwhelming that she and her family decided to pick up and move to […]

RAMAT GAN, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In December, Nechemia, a combat engineer, was serving in Gaza alongside his close friend when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded next to them.  Nechemia suffered evere shrapnel injuries on one side of his body, one of four soldiers injured in the incident. His friend, just feet away from him, was […]