Author: David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  About two weeks ago, the CEO of HIAS, the Jewish refugee aid group, testified in the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman — discussing how his group’s partnership with one of the building’s congregations prompted the shooter to commit the attack.  As he took the stand, some members of that congregation, Dor […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an Iranian plot to attack sites popular with Jews and Israelis in Cyprus had been foiled. Reports in Israeli and Cypriot media claimed that the attacks were aimed at venues frequented by Israeli tourists and a building associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel’s security agencies said they would use “all the means that are at our disposal” to combat violence by settlers in the wake of West Bank riots that left one Palestinian dead and dozens injured. They pledged to use a tactic generally reserved for Palestinian terror suspects in order to stop […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Reform movement is folding its high school program in Israel into a larger, nondenominational program, in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining enrollment. Starting this fall, the Union for Reform Judaism’s Heller High program, in which high school students spend a semester studying in Israel, will merge […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Some 65 U.S. senators from both parties have urged the Biden administration to finalize Israel’s entry into the Visa Waiver Program by Sept. 30. Israel has sought to join the program, which enables citizens to travel to the United States without a visa, for decades. Currently, Israelis who do not hold […]

SDEROT, Israel — Whenever Efraim Rozenfeld hears a plane flying overhead, his body tenses up. The 52-year-old father of seven and grandfather of seven is a longtime resident of Sderot, the Israeli town near the Gaza border that is a regular target of Palestinian rocket attacks. Rozenfeld’s physical response to plane noise is the result, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For years, as the Sackler name fell from art museums, colleges and even a wing of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater amid revelations about the family’s contributions to the opioid crisis, it remained very much attached to the medical school at Tel Aviv University. Now, three weeks after the Jewish family that produced the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli settlers torched cars and crops in the West Bank following a Palestinian terror attack, the latest conflagration in what has been a violent year in the territory. The riot, in which dozens of Palestinians were wounded, followed a shooting earlier on Tuesday by Palestinian gunmen in the Israeli settlement of Eli […]

This is a developing story. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Palestinian gunmen killed four people and wounded four in a terror attack at a gas station near the West Bank settlement of Eli, the Israeli army reported. An Israeli civilian returning fire at the scene of the attack on Tuesday killed one of the attackers, who emerged […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israel Defense Forces censured an officer for actions that contributed to the mistaken killing of a Palestinian toddler earlier this month and said the incident revealed “gaps in the command and control of the commanders” who were involved. On June 1, an IDF soldier shot 2-year-old Mohammed Tamimi and injured his […]