Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Rabbi Yael Ridberg recently returned from a four-day mission to Israel with the Jewish Federation of San Diego, which has a 25-year sister-city relationship with Sha’ar HaNegev, a municipality near the Gaza border. Their group witnessed firsthand the destruction and devastation left after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel’s south; among […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Several months ago, before she met with the pope and Elon Musk, before her adopted home was thrust into war by a brutal attack, before she became one of the most prominent faces of a hostage crisis, Rachel Goldberg was desperately looking for luggage. It was March and hundreds of people had […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The writer Masha Gessen will still receive a prestigious award named for Hannah Arendt, after the German foundation that administers the prize had initially said it would pull its support due to Gessen’s recent writing on Gaza. Gessen, a Jewish writer for The New Yorker magazine, published an essay last week comparing […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Israeli soldiers accidentally killed three hostages during combat in Gaza, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. The soldiers mistakenly identified the hostages as a threat during fighting on Friday in Shejaiya, a neighborhood that is a Hamas stronghold in the Gaza City area, said Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesman. After combat in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police in three European countries arrested seven men they said were planning terror attacks against Jews and Jewish sites on Thursday. Some of the men arrested were longtime Hamas members who began building a weapons cache in Berlin after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to German officials. Three of the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli soldiers will be disciplimed after broadcasting Jewish prayers from a West Bank mosque during a military operation there, which the Israel Defense Forces said ran counter to the army’s rules and values. Multiple videos began circulating on Thursday showing the incident, which took place as the IDF conducted a three-day operation […]

JERUSALEM ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As rain pounded the gravestones, thousands of people crowded into Israel’s military cemetery on Mt. Herzl to pay their final respects to Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg. It was one of many military funerals that day. Grinberg, 35, was the commander of the Golani infantry brigade’s elite 13th battalion, which lost nine […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Rutgers University suspended its campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine Monday, joining a growing number of American universities that have restricted the pro-Palestinian group’s operations as campus activism has spiked surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. The chapter has two business days to appeal the “interim” suspension. The university did not say […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden had a menorah custom-made from a White House beam, but it was another menorah from thousands of miles away that elicited the most powerful reaction at the annual White House Hanukkah party Monday night. Partygoers making their way up to the mansion’s residence, where the celebration took place, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Over the weekend, one Jewish Democratic congressman joined with Elise Stefanik, the number-three Republican in the House of Representatives, to demand accountability for antisemitism. Another took to cable TV to say she had no credibility on the issue. The gap between the two Jewish Democrats — Florida’s Jared Moskowitz and Maryland’s […]