Category: Israel

((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 […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A number of Israeli and Jewish schools are urging parents to limit their children’s access to social media apps such as TikTok and Instagram due to concerns of increasingly graphic content that may be shared from Israel and Gaza. David Lange, who lives in Israel and runs the Israeli advocacy group Israellycool, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The grim and mounting toll of Hamas’ attack on Israel was thrown into stark relief on Monday when more than 100 bodies were found in Kibbutz Be’eri, a small community on the Gaza border that was invaded by the terror group on Saturday. When Israeli troops entered the kibbutz they found scenes […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) —When Rabbi James Proops arrived at his Modern Orthodox synagogue in Livingston, New Jersey, on Saturday morning, he found three people waiting to meet him: two members of the security committee and a non-Jewish guard. “As I approached, they looked at me … you know, I could see there was something wrong with […]

((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 […]

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 […]

(New York Jewish Week) — As Israel continued to clear the Gaza border area of Hamas attackers, and came to grips with an attack that killed 700 people, hundreds of people came to rally in support of the country outside the United Nations on Sunday afternoon. But for at least one demonstrator, the focus wasn’t […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – More than 5,000 young adults on long-term programs in Israel are out of danger, an umbrella group for the programs said. A spokesperson for Masa Israel Journey — which guides participants to hundreds of gap-year, career training and continuing education programs in Israel — told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that all of […]

((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. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Saturday was a day of bloodshed unprecedented in Israel’s history.  Beginning in the morning of a Jewish holiday, hundreds of militants broke through the barrier between Israel and Gaza and spread into more than 20 locations, killing 300 Israelis on the streets, in their homes and at an outdoor festival, taking some […]