Author: David Leibermann

((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 […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Biden administration has joined the chorus of American voices criticizing Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli. A photo making a face at a pro-Israel parade in New York City, and his unapologetic defense of the incident, is evidence that he is out of touch with the U.S. Jewish Diaspora, a senior […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — With just a few weeks before his planned return to Tel Aviv after resigning in March as Israel’s consul general in New York City, Asaf Zamir set out Friday for an iconic Israeli experience: getting married abroad. Zamir and his wife Maya Wertheimer, the Israeli actress and model, had a Reform Jewish […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Five people were killed in a gang-related shooting at a car wash near Nazareth in northern Israel, continuing a rising wave of violent deaths in Arab-Israeli areas and prompting increasingly urgent calls for action to address the bloodshed. The incident on Thursday was the most fatal criminal attack in Israel since 2009, […]