Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Holocaust survivors in Israel relived their trauma on Oct. 7, when Hamas’ attack on their country was the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazis were defeated. Some were injured, hid for their lives and were displaced from their homes, in echoes of their experiences as children. Now, they will get a […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Organizations and individuals around the world have donated at least $1.4 billion toward Israel’s recovery from the attack of Oct. 7, according to a new report published by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.  The donations, coupled with widespread pro-Israel activism in the Diaspora and the arrival in Israel of tens of thousands […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — More than 150 Jewish filmmakers, writers, actors, and creatives — including Oscar nominees and winners — have signed an open letter in support of director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech at the 2024 Academy Awards. Glazer, whose Holocaust movie “The Zone of Interest” won best international feature, used his speech to denounce Israel’s […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that how the United States deals with Israel’s war with Hamas depends on what Israel does to mitigate dangers for aid workers and for humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip. Within hours, Israel loosened controls on humanitarian aid entering the enclave. Biden’s 30-minute […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – An elite West Coast liberal arts school will no longer pre-approve students to study abroad at Haifa University, in a decision announced after its student government voted against the program in protest of Israel. Anti-Zionist activists at Pitzer College and beyond are cheering the change as a victory for the movement to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israeli military is investigating reservist soldiers who shot dead David Ben Avraham, a Palestinian who converted to Judaism to honor his grandfather for rescuing Jews during the deadly 1929 Hebron riots. The soldiers considered the 63-year old suspicious when he got off the bus on Thursday in the West Bank near […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When I first met Keith Siegel, he was the last of four siblings still at home. He was in high school, and I remember him pedaling off early in the morning. I was in a different world, graduate school, and was renting a room from his parents as I needed a quieter place […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined in a collective recitation of the Shema prayer on Thursday that was broadcast from Jerusalem’s Western Wall to support the more than 130 hostages still held by Hamas. The event was organized by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum along with Aish HaTorah, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Canadian movie theater said it was postponing a Jewish film festival, over the objections of the local Jewish federation, owing to “security and safety concerns at this particularly sensitive time.” The Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, Ontario said in a Tuesday statement that it decided over the weekend to postpone the Hamilton […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Since Oct. 7, the federal office that handles investigations into campus civil rights has kept many details of its work confidential — including which cases focus on antisemitism. But now the U.S. Department of Education has begun revealing more about the investigations it has launched since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. […]