Category: Israel

MAHANAYIM JUNCTION, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Lea, a former infantry instructor in the Israel Defense Forces, cut short a trip to Central America and booked a ticket back to Israel, hoping to contribute to the war effort.  But like thousands of reserve soldiers, she has found herself far […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The independent panel that rules on disputes at the world’s largest social media company is taking up two challenged posts about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, in cases with potential ramifications for how users will be able to talk about the war online. The cases are the first to be taken on under […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the University of Pennsylvania board should make a “serious decision” about the school’s president, who is facing pressure to resign after she declined to say outright that calls for the genocide of Jews violate the university’s code of conduct. The outcry follows a congressional hearing on Tuesday […]

Yariv Hagbi, a farmer whose family has been growing produce in the area of southern Israel near Gaza for generations, spent part of Oct. 7 fighting terrorists who broke into his family home in the town of Yakhini. That Saturday, his brother, Yizhar Hagbi, and several other relatives were killed. Since then, the entire community […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Less than a week after the United Nations secretary general urged an investigation into reported sexual violence by Hamas, the Israeli U.N. mission held a conference on the allegations and pressed the international community to speak out more forcefully against them. “We have come so far in believing survivors of sexual assault […]

MONTREAL ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Despite a foot of snow in Montreal and chartered buses that never showed up in Toronto, thousands of Canadian Jews assembled on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday to voice solidarity with Israel and decry a rise in antisemitism. Despite concerns over overall security in Canada’s capital city, which was tight, […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When he spoke with a news anchor on Thursday night, Israeli reservist Aviad Frija was hailed by right-wing politicians and commentators as a hero for his role in responding to a terror attack at a Jerusalem bus stop earlier that day. By Monday, Frija was arrested by the IDF and […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Canadian-Israeli businessman Sylvan Adams has donated $100 million to Ben-Gurion University as part of an effort to rebuild the south following the devastating Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, university officials announced at a benefit gala in Toronto on Sunday. “If we want the south to flourish after the October 7th pogrom, we […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Shlomo Avineri, a leading Israeli political philosopher, left-leaning former director-general of the country’s foreign ministry and clear-eyed critic of both sides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, died on Friday. He was 90. Avineri was a longtime professor of political science at Hebrew University, where he produced important scholarship on Zionist thinkers Theodor Herzl […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A series of Jewish professors across the country have faced lawsuits, termination and suspension after making pro-Israel remarks that administrators say crossed the line into threatening speech. Faculty members at New York University, the University of Southern California and Johns Hopkins University are among those who have been recently caught up in […]