Author: David Leibermann

(New York Jewish Week) — The hundreds of flyers lining the walls of the Union Square subway station bore the faces of Israeli hostages, with the word “kidnapped” in bold letters above the photo and a plea to bring them home below. “Entire Israeli family,” one of the pages said; “80-year-old Israeli grandfather,” read another. […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Keren Sherf Shem, whose daughter Mia is among those taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza, expressed both relief and profound concern after a video featuring her daughter was released by the terrorist group on Monday. “I was overjoyed to see her alive,” Keren Shem told journalists on Tuesday in Tel […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On a normal Shabbat, Orthodox Israelis turn off radios, silence cell phones and — if they have one — lay down their gun. Saturday was not a normal Shabbat. A week into wartime, Israelis had special dispensation from the country’s top rabbis to bear arms. They were told to leave communication devices […]

Neomit Dekel-Chen, 63, has been a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz for the last 30 years. This is her account of what happened on Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked her kibbutz and others near the border of Gaza. Dozens of Nir Oz residents were murdered and dozens more were taken hostage during the assault. This […]

(New York Jewish Week) — A 19-year-old is facing hate crimes charges for attacking an Israeli student during a confrontation related to Hamas’ attack on Israel. The suspect, Maxwell Friedman, who police said is from Brooklyn, was charged with four counts for allegedly striking a student with a stick. The altercation happened after that student, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield arrested a man on Saturday for killing a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy and wounding his mother, a violent act police attributed to islamophobia and “the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis.” The killing is being investigated as a hate crime and brought home […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli officials have notified the relatives of 199 people that their loved ones are believed to be hostages in Gaza, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said on Monday. The number marked a sharp revision of the army’s previous estimate of the number of Israeli captives, which had grown to 155 in the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An estimated 350 people stood outside of Berlin’s Frankelufer Synagogue on Friday to symbolically protect it during a day that the Hamas terror group deemed a time for international protest action against Israel. The synagogue’s protective gate — erected to protect the building during terror threats in recent decades — was hung […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel bombed airports in Damascus and Aleppo following missile fire from Syria — a signal that tensions may escalate on Israel’s northern border as it prepares for a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip. The invasion, which is expected in the coming days, will follow Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, which […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — This weekend, Ruby Chen was looking forward to celebrating his son Alon’s bar mitzvah together with the boy’s older brother, Itay, who was due to come home from his military service. But on Friday, instead of being focused solely on preparations for a family milestone, Chen joined a video call […]