Three years ago this week, the massacre of Oct. 7 accelerated a reckoning in Jewish education that had already been building for a long time. In Jewish schools, camps and youth groups, educators found themselves fielding questions they weren’t prepared to answer. Students were scared. Parents were angry. And many of the adults in the […]
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JERUSALEM – A young girl steps out of the bathroom on a flight and glimpses a bloody scene unfolding in the cockpit: the co-pilot is attacking the pilot with an axe. She screams for help. A handful of unarmed passengers, still tanned from their vacations in Thailand, rushes by her, successfully grabbing the control wheel […]
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TEL AVIV – Israel’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of Arab parties to run in the Oct. 27 election could make it more difficult for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new coalition after the election. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Joint Arab List and Ra’am, […]
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Britain’s Green Party on Sunday adopted a policy equating Zionism with racism, a move that immediately drew condemnation from the Israeli government and sparked concerns among some Jewish party members and the broader Jewish community. The motion has also caused divisions within the party itself, with leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, skipping the vote […]
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TEL AVIV – More than 48 hours after an apparent attempt to take over a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, the incident is raising fresh security concerns for Israelis and Jewish communities abroad, while leaving hundreds of Israeli travelers stranded in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in an interview […]
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The IDF on Thursday issued its first detailed response to “NAZA” after viewing the full documentary alleging Israeli forces knowingly killed large numbers of civilians in the Gaza war, accusing the filmmakers of making fundamental errors about how civilian-casualty estimates, strike approvals and intelligence tools were used. “The film’s narrative is based on substantial factual […]
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President Donald Trump spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “at length” about the flydubai attack on Wednesday, while the United Arab Emirates said it was opening an investigation into the incident. The UAE noted in a statement that the investigation included looking at “any and all possible connection to terrorist intent” after one pilot […]
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TEL AVIV – The apparent hijacking attempt aboard flydubai Flight 1073 has put a spotlight on the Emirati airline, which has become a main air link connecting Israelis to the rest of the world. The incident could also test the relationship between Israel and one of the airlines that has come to symbolize the ties […]
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One pilot stabbed another in the cockpit of a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in what may have been an attempt to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. A passenger intervened to help restrain the attacker, he added. The flight, carrying more than 100 Israeli passengers, was diverted […]
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British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called Palestinian suffering in Gaza and the West Bank a “stain on the conscience of the world” at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool, his most blistering attack on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government yet. His attack comes a number of weeks after he told the British Parliament that his country […]
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