Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On Sept. 30, Ryan Lavarnway and Team Israel took the field in the Czech Republic to battle the host country for fifth place at the 2023 European Baseball Championship. Israel lost 5-1 and finished sixth in the biennial tournament. One week later, some of Lavarnway’s teammates were hastily called into active duty […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — International news outlets denied that photographers they hired had advance knowledge of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, after a report suggested without hard evidence that the journalists may have coordinated with the terror group ahead of the invasion. But the Associated Press and CNN have said they will no longer work […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Reports of antisemitic incidents have spiked over 800% in the Netherlands since Oct. 7, a leading Dutch-Jewish watchdog has reported. The surge only reflects antisemitic acts reported to the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI), not all incidents filed to police departments and other anti-discrimination bureaus. CIDI would not release […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — By now, the dramatic rescue of Amir Tibon’s family from Kibbutz Nahal Oz by his 62-year old father, retired IDF General Noam Tibon, has become one of the most widely shared stories of Oct. 7.  Lesser known but also heroic is the tale of another of Tibon’s family members, Dudik […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Growing up as a Bukharian Jew in China, Uriah was always told by his parents to hide his Jewishness in public and to try to assimilate into the greater Chinese population. Uriah — who asked to be identified only by his Hebrew name to ensure the safety of his family […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In a video posted to social media on Sunday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib leveled a litany of harsh accusations at President Joe Biden — from saying he betrayed his voters to blaming him for endorsing “genocide.”  But one six-word phrase in the video caught the ire of a growing chorus of critics and […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Jewish billionaire investor and philanthropist quit the board of Columbia Business School, saying the campus had become unsafe for Jews since the launch of the Israel-Hamas war. “With blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors allowed to operate with complete impunity, it sends a clear and distressing message that Jews are not […]

KFAR AZA, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — One month after their bucolic kibbutz turned into a site of carnage, Hanan Dann and Gili Okev returned for a brief visit — alongside two former world leaders, dozens of journalists and a handful of volunteers who were still engaged in the painstaking work of gathering the traces of their […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — National Jewish organizations are calling on Jews from around the country to travel to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 for a mass pro-Israel rally they hope will rival major Jewish demonstrations in 2002 and 1987 in size and impact. The March for Israel has three goals, according to Eric Fingerhut, CEO […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For a few hours on Sunday, the unthinkable happened on social media: AIPAC promoted a clip of Bernie Sanders talking about Israel. Hours later, that praise prompted Sanders to write a post distancing himself from the pro-Israel lobby. Sanders, the Jewish Vermont senator and unofficial leader of progressives on Capitol Hill, […]