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Hamas killed her mother and niece. Her children are hostages in Gaza.

October 19, 2023David Leibermann

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hadas Calderon flung a printed picture of her mother, Carmela Dan, an American-Israeli who was reported kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, to the floor. “She’s dead. There’s nothing I can do about her anymore. I don’t even have a minute to think about mourning,” Calderon told the Jewish Telegraphic […]

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Inside the volunteer effort to preserve the harrowing testimonies of Israel’s Oct. 7 survivors

October 19, 2023David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Two days after Hamas killed 1,400 of his fellow Israelis, Raz Elispur saw something on social media that broke through the fog of the crisis. It was a first-person account by May Hayat, written in Hebrew, that explained exactly how she had survived the massacre at the Nova dance party. Hayat’s account […]

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This Bedouin bus driver is credited with saving 30 people from Israel’s Nova party massacre

October 19, 2023David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Every day at 4 p.m., Youssef Ziadna receives a phone call from a psychologist. Every evening, he sits on his balcony drinking coffee, smoking, and replaying in his mind the worst things he has ever seen. The daily routine would have been unimaginable for Ziadna, a 47-year-old Bedouin Israeli resident of Rahat, […]

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American Jewish giving to Israel spikes as a ‘tangible’ way to express grief after Hamas attack

October 18, 2023David Leibermann

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For more than a week, Herbert Block’s phone has been buzzing nonstop with messages from people he doesn’t know who want to give him money.  He doesn’t mind the unsolicited callers, all of whom are asking the same thing: How can they donate to Israel right now?  “People from all parts […]

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A torched bicycle shop, an arrested singer: Arab-Israelis face precarious landscape during Gaza war

October 18, 2023David Leibermann

TAYIBE, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) – In the days following Hamas’ bloody invasion of Israel, singer and influencer Dalal Abu Amneh posted a Palestinian flag to social media along with the words “There is no victor but God.” By Tuesday, the post was gone, and Abu Amneh, who is also a brain researcher, was in Israeli […]

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At one New Jersey Jewish school, four families mourn relatives killed in Israel

October 18, 2023David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On the Monday morning after the deadly Hamas attack near the Gaza border, administrators at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Milford, New Jersey spoke to every grade and asked students how many of them had family in Israel. Nearly every one of the school’s 420 students said […]

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Israeli military says Palestinian rocket struck Gaza hospital where hundreds were reported killed

October 17, 2023David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel has concluded that an explosion at a Gaza City hospital that reportedly killed hundreds of people was the result of an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group in Gaza. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority both blamed Israel for the blast at al-Ahli hospital, which the Palestinian Red […]

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‘Kidnapped’ posters calling attention to Israeli hostages keep getting torn down

October 17, 2023David Leibermann

(New York Jewish Week) — The hundreds of flyers lining the walls of the Union Square subway station bore the faces of Israeli hostages, with the word “kidnapped” in bold letters above the photo and a plea to bring them home below. “Entire Israeli family,” one of the pages said; “80-year-old Israeli grandfather,” read another. […]

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Mother of Israeli woman in first Hamas hostage video pleads for captives’ release

October 17, 2023David Leibermann

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Keren Sherf Shem, whose daughter Mia is among those taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza, expressed both relief and profound concern after a video featuring her daughter was released by the terrorist group on Monday. “I was overjoyed to see her alive,” Keren Shem told journalists on Tuesday in Tel […]

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Israeli rabbis are issuing guidance about how to adjust Jewish law during wartime

October 17, 2023David Leibermann

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On a normal Shabbat, Orthodox Israelis turn off radios, silence cell phones and — if they have one — lay down their gun. Saturday was not a normal Shabbat. A week into wartime, Israelis had special dispensation from the country’s top rabbis to bear arms. They were told to leave communication devices […]

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