Category: Israel

(New York Jewish Week) – Students crammed into a meeting room on the leafy Queens College campus, some wearing keffiyehs, others kippahs. Kosher and halal food were served on a table at the back of the room, while late arrivals gathered at the door, listening to the rabbi and imam holding court at the center […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The U.S. Department of Education announced that it has opened five new investigations into the handling of antisemitism and two into the handling of Islamophobia on college and K-12 campuses. The announcement on Thursday was a show of force from the department, which said the flood of investigations represented “part of the […]

KIBBUTZ GEZER, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As she eulogized Vivian Silver, her friend and longtime fellow activist, Ghadir Hani said, “Vivian, my beloved, if you could hear, I would want you to know: Hamas did not murder your vision.” Hani, who is from Hura, a Bedouin town in southern Israel, was one of several speakers […]

(New York Jewish Week) — A pro-Palestinian group that calls for “intifada” and Israel’s destruction temporarily posted maps online detailing the locations of Jewish organizations in New York City and saying they had “blood on their hands.” The posts have drawn the NYPD’s attention and sparked condemnation from elected officials and Jewish leaders. Manhattan Borough […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A 2002 essay by Osama bin Laden that says “Israel must be erased” and rails against the “Jews, who control your policies, media and economy” has gone viral on TikTok, with some users endorsing its message. The missive by the notorious leader of Al Qaeda was written in 2002 to justify the […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Gunmen killed one soldier and injured five others Thursday in an attack at a West Bank checkpoint connecting Jerusalem and Israeli settlements to the south. Israeli security sources say the attack was a failed attempt by Hamas, the Gaza-based terror group, to carry out a wider massacre in Jerusalem. Two […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Capitol Police arrested activists from two left-wing Jewish groups protesting outside the Democratic Party headquarters and calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. At least two Democrats in Congress said police evacuated them from the building during the protest, the latest in a string of high-profile actions by the groups, […]

((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. […]