The bitter battle that has raged between Israel’s security and political establishments over who bears responsibility for the failures ahead of the Oct. 7 attacks is kicking into high gear as Israel prepares to hold its first election since the Hamas invasion in 2023. This week, former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar upped the stakes […]
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Jonah Platt wants potential guests on his podcast to know that “private” solidarity is no solidarity at all. Platt, a social media influencer and the host of “Being Jewish with Jonah Platt,” said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he is frustrated with the steady stream of personal messages and other signs […]
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Levels of engagement in Jewish life have risen overall, establishing a “new normal” three years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, according to a survey released Thursday by the Jewish Federations of North America. Thirty-eight percent of Jewish respondents surveyed by the federation umbrella group in May and June said they had increased their Jewish […]
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Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, newly aired recordings of her final calls revealed fresh and harrowing details about her last hours. The recordings, aired by Channel 12 on Tuesday, prompted her sister, Haviva Mann Izikson, to renew an appeal […]
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JERUSALEM – For all that Oct. 7 transformed life in Israel, there is one notable place that still appears stuck: politics. Three years after Hamas’s devastating attack, the massacre and the wars that followed dominate the political campaigns for Israel’s Oct. 27 election. Yet according to political analysts and the latest polling, they have done […]
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On the third anniversary of the devastating Oct. 7 terror attack, it is a moment to remember the terrible human cost of that day – and to consider what we are building in its aftermath. Sapir College sits less than two miles from the Gaza border. On Oct. 7, 2023, the reality we had known […]
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Just about the last thing I wanted to do on a summer weekend in the Berkshires was to see a play called “The Zionists.” The title alone practically dares audiences to arrive with their defenses up. Its subject is the bitter family and communal fractures that followed Oct. 7, 2023. Its Jewish characters argue angrily, […]
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