Twenty-four members of the Jewish community in Tehran and Shiraz remain in prison as of Sunday after being arrested along with hundreds of others in a sweeping government crackdown in Iran that began as fighting ended with Israel. The arrests took in 35 Jews originally, according to a report put out Saturday by HRANA, the […]
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Hours after the ceasefire between Israel and Iran took effect on Wednesday, Chaya Kaplan-Lester shared a Facebook memory from six years ago: for her bat mitzvah project, her daughter Beriah had enlisted a group of friends to clean and renovate their neighborhood shelter in Jerusalem. It was a “sweet and symbolic” gesture to instill responsibility, […]
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This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Support for Israel. Hope for a new Iran. Confusion about their complicated Jewish identities. These are just a few of the emotions Iranian-Jewish American teensexperienced over […]
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This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. On June 17, Mark Labaton was sheltering in his apartment’s safe room after receiving a safety alert when an Iranian ballistic missile slammed into a parking […]
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JERUSALEM — Hours before she became one of the final victims of the 12-day Israel-Iran war on Tuesday, Naomi Shaanan was engaged in an activity that had made her famous in her city: She stood on the side of the road to demonstrate on behalf of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. In a photograph that […]
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President Trump was not pleased. Fresh off putting all the TACO talk to rest (at least for a few news cycles) with the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Trump quickly pivoted. By late Monday night the president was promising a “Complete and Total” ceasefire, instead of a forever war, saying the fighting between Israel […]
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Israel and Iran Tuesday morning, suggesting they continued to exchange fire despite his announcement of a ceasefire. “We basically, we have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing,” Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday […]
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WASHINGTON — The last time Israel bombed a nuclear facility in a hostile country, its hopes for what would come next were clear: The regime it deemed too toxic to have nuclear power should stay in place. A lot has changed in the Middle East since 2007, when Israel took out the nuclear reactor in […]
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Lawmakers reacted largely along party lines to the Trump administration’s decision to attack three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night. Although supporters and detractors of the decision to bomb the three sites could be found on both sides of the aisle, members of the president’s party were more inclined to celebrate what one, Republican House […]
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WASHINGTON — Israel said it hit military targets in Iran in retaliation for that country’s missile barrage on Oct. 1, apparently heeding Biden administration pleas to avoid oil fields or Iran’s nuclear program because of fears of escalation into an all-out war. “In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against […]
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