‘Your fight is my fight’: Thousands rally alongside NY leadership to grieve and back Israel after Hamas invasion

(New York Jewish Week) — Liberal Zionists joined with right-wing activists and secular and Hasidic Jews grieved together with elected officials at a demonstration outside the United Nations on Tuesday that expressed solidarity with Israel and mourned its dead.  The gathering occurred as a bloodied Israel continued to battle terrorists and buried its fallen, four […]

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WhatsApp says viral warnings of a cyberattack targeting Jews are baseless

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A representative from WhatsApp, the popular messaging platform, says that viral messages spread on the app warning about potential cyberattacks targeting Jews are a hoax. The warnings appear to have begun circulating since Saturday on multiple online platforms, NBC News reported. On Saturday evening, crypto influencer Scott Melker posted the warning on […]

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US rabbinical students, in Israel for the year, weigh whether to stay and how to help

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Wade Melnick understood that something was truly amiss when he saw a car driving through the haredi Orthodox Israeli town where he was spending Shabbat. A rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, a Conservative rabbinical school, Melnick and his wife had traveled from Jerusalem to Elad, an Orthodox town about […]

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Death toll climbs to 800, IDF regains control of border towns as Hamas attack enters day 3; ‘complete siege’ of Gaza planned

This story will be updated. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A massive military operation is underway to place Gaza under a “complete siege,” Israel’s defense minister said on Monday, 48 hours after a surprise attack by Hamas left 800 Israelis dead, thousands wounded and more than 100 captive in Gaza. “We are going to change the Middle […]

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Empire State Building, Brandenburg Gate, other landmarks lit in blue and white in solidarity with Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Landmarks around the world turned to blue and white on Saturday in solidarity with Israel after Hamas attacked the country, leaving at least 700 Israelis dead and more than 2,000 wounded. New York City announced that the Empire State Building would be illuminated for an hour Saturday night in solidarity with Israel. […]

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