Jared Armstrong’s season was about to start on Oct. 7. Now he’s using basketball to help Israeli children escape the realities of war.

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Last summer, Jared Armstrong traveled from his adopted home of Israel back to the United States to confront a problem — running basketball clinics across the country in a bid to improve Black-Jewish relations. Now, following Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, the professional basketball player is bringing his clinics to the […]

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An effort to track antisemitism in the literary world launches amid widespread anti-Israel sentiment there

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The Jewish Book Council has launched an initiative to collect reports of antisemitism in the literary world, amid a wave of incidents targeting Jewish creatives during the Israel-Hamas war. A wave of intense pro-Palestinian activism within the broad literary community has included bestselling Jewish authors being targeted online as “Zionists,” despite not […]

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A top U.N. official says Hamas is ‘not a terrorist organization,’ sparking furious backlash from Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A top United Nations official said Hamas was “not a terrorist organization” on Wednesday, sparking outrage from Israel as the U.N. grapples with allegations of anti-Israel bias and antisemitism. Asked in a TV interview on Wednesday about Israel’s plan to eliminate Hamas, Martin Griffiths, the head of the U.N. Office for the […]

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