Category: Israel

(New York Jewish Week) — Hundreds of protesters were arrested as they crowded Grand Central Station in New York City on Friday afternoon for a rally sponsored by a Jewish group calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The rally came a day ahead of a series of other pro-Palestinian rallies worldwide. It was organized by […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Fighting was reportedly underway inside Gaza late Friday night, after Israeli officials announced plans to “expand” their offensive inside the territory. But both Israeli and U.S. officials told ABC News that the fighting did not represent the full-scale invasion that Israel has said it was readying since shortly after Hamas attacked Israel […]

(New York Jewish Week) — A local Jewish security group is advising Jews to avoid the area near the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday afternoon, where a hardline pro-Palestinian group will hold a rally advertised as “Flood Brooklyn for Gaza.” Crown Heights Shmira, a local patrol group that works closely with the NYPD, shared a social […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7 was thousands of miles away for Jewish teens in the United States — yet they have found themselves caught in a crossfire of opinions, misinformation and anger about the situation ever since. (JEWISH REVIEW) Teen Journalism Fellows interviewed their peers about what they have […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Yonatan Perez was 10 days out from getting married when his world was torn apart. Perez was shot in a battle with Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 when they invaded near the kibbutz where he was stationed as a soldier. His brother Daniel Perez went missing in action, his tankmates […]

BNEI BRAK, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  The walls of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, in this haredi Orthodox city outside of Tel Aviv, are lined with decorative windows bearing the names of Eastern European Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust. The yeshiva, a major educational institution and center of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, life in Israel, has a […]

(New York Jewish Week) — In front of a long U-shaped table in Times Square, set for 224 people, a crowd began to sing “Happy Birthday” for a 12-year-old boy named Erez.  Thursday was Erez’s birthday, but the gathering was no celebration. Erez, along with his sister, Sahar, and father, Ofer Calderon, are three of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Like many American Jews, Matt Greenberg has been bombarded with requests to sign open letters about the state of affairs in Israel and Gaza. One that he received this week in a WhatsApp group particularly incensed Greenberg, who helms a Jewish social services nonprofit in Stamford, Connecticut. Saying that it would be […]

DEAD SEA, Israel ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Nearly three weeks after Kibbutz Be’eri was massacred, its surviving members still gather for their community’s traditional evening meeting.  The kibbutz, ransacked and empty, is now a closed military zone. To those familiar with the litany of atrocities committed on Oct. 7, its name has become synonymous with some […]

(New York Jewish Week) — Jewish students at a New York City college were locked in their school’s library for 20 minutes as pro-Palestinian demonstrators pounded on the doors and shouted slogans.  The incident on Wednesday night at Cooper Union, a private college in downtown Manhattan, occurred after pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students held dueling rallies. […]