Author: David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — They went to Washington to support Israel and left the rally with a deepened sense of the Jewish community in the United States. So said teenagers who were among the estimated 290,000 Israel supporters who gathered on the National Mall on Tuesday — one of the largest gatherings of Jews in U.S. […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  Hannah Kaplan, a senior at Tiffin University in northern Ohio, can identify exactly one other Jew in the school’s student body of approximately 3,000. There are also a few Jewish professors, but no Hillel. She says she’s felt lonely since Oct. 7, when Hamas’ attack on Israel killed 1,200, sparked a […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — After 12 hours on the bus, Dan Kenem appreciated the breakfast at Ohev Sholom Congregation. “The lox really hit the spot,” he said, seated at a table in the synagogue’s social hall, just minutes after getting off the bus that had started out from Lakefield, a Chicago suburb, the night before. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling that the non-Jewish widows of the children and grandchildren of Jews may emigrate to Israel under its Law of Return. The 4-3 ruling this week was an example of the court’s role in determining Israeli policy, a capacity that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who had been presumed kidnapped by Hamas, was declared dead after her remains were found at her home. Her death was confirmed to (JEWISH REVIEW) by multiple activists who said they were in touch with Silver’s family. Shifra Bronznick, a prominent Jewish social justice activist and […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On Monday morning, Margie Maidman boarded a caravan of 10 buses from Boston to Washington, D.C., headed to a massive demonstration in support of Israel and against antisemitism. The journey is eight hours each way, and most of the people on her bus, like her, are in their 60s and 70s. It […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As community manager of his kibbutz in Israel’s south, Asaf Artel, 52, oversees all social aspects of Kissufim’s 120 member families. On Oct. 7, Artel was able to guide Israeli troops while they rescued people from the kibbutz via walkie talkie from inside his safe room, where he spent several hours with his […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For years, the 50th day after Yom Kippur has been marked by the pilgrimage of hundreds of Ethiopian Jews dressed in white and carrying colorful umbrellas to Jerusalem to celebrate Sigd. This year, that day falls on Monday. But with Israel country at war, official public celebrations of the Ethiopian Jewish holiday […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel has revised the number of people known to have been killed during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, dropping its official estimate from 1,400 to 1,200 over the weekend. The change, announced in a statement from an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson, comes more than a month after the attack, in which […]

(New York Jewish Week) — Columbia University has suspended two pro-Palestinian student groups — Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine — saying they violated university policies and expressed “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” The suspension runs through the end of the fall semester, about six more weeks, and marks a significant crackdown by […]