After the Maryland State Department of Education’s Office of Child Care received two complaints about a single incident relating to Goldsmith Early Childhood Center in Pikesville, the school entered into an agreement with the state to...
More than 20 years after losing his brother to terror, Yehuda Lanzkron is helping restore Torah scrolls in memory of war fallen—starting with one for Soroka Hospital, hit by an Iranian missile, and aiming to honor every fallen soldier
(New York Post) Victor Davis Hanson - Iran was reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on the U.S. base in Qatar - a ceremonial but ultimately humiliating proof of its impotence. So ends the creepy mystique of the supposedly...
When Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib arrived at my house for a recent Shabbat dinner, he looked terrible. “I think the film shoot upset my stomach,” he said. That was in late May. The result of that film shoot, a nearly two-hour video, dropped on...
Predictably, Mamdani’s answer to the question of where the money to pay for all of this largesse will come from will continue to be ever-higher taxes, thus feeding the non-affordability spiral. So, nothing really new here.
Shipman Just Bestowed Columbia’s Highest Academic Honor on a BDS-Supporting Professor of African Studies Who Accused Israel of Inhumane Discrimination and Violence Since 1948 Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist...
Ukrainian capital endures one of war’s fiercest attacks as Ukraine’s Jewish community finds resilience in faith, sheltering neighbors and preserving tradition amid relentless hardship
(JTA) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Melbourne, Australia, chanted “Death to the IDF” at a rally Sunday, two days after a spate of violent attacks on Jewish targets including a synagogue and businesses with ties to Israel. Local...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Katz announced that Israel is developing air and military strategies to thwart Iran’s attempts to revive its nuclear and missile programs.
Firebomb attack on Melbourne synagogue and protest-turned-violence at Israeli-owned restaurant mark a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents amid ongoing tensions tied to the Gaza war
Poster depicting a headless Nazi soldier with a Star of David worn on his arm instead of a swastika was hung at a light rail station in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome; After its image spread and outrage expressed by senior members...
Recently, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth caused a stir when, pursuant to President Trump’s long overdue purge of content deemed to promote DEI, he absurdly flagged the name Enola Gay for removal, apparently because the name contained...
(JTA) — A federal court ruled that the family of a man charged in the firebombing of a demonstration in Boulder, Colorado in support of the Israeli hostages can be deported. The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who is an Egyptian...
Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees. The...
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Robert Satloff - Iran's direct missile and drone attacks on Israel in 2024 represented a major strategic blunder for Iran, exposing its national assets and citizens to external attack for the...
The officer, who was bodyguard for Holocaust survivor and German Jewish leader Charlotte Knobloch, wished for her death in Auschwitz; Despite this, the court decided not to dismiss him, ruling that he would only be demoted one grade in...
(AFP) The U.S. on Monday announced the approval of a $510 million sale to Israel of bomb guidance kits and related support, after Israel expended significant munitions in its recent conflict with Iran. "It is vital to U.S. national...
(JTA) — After facing criticism, President Donald Trump said he was unaware that the term “Shylock” was widely considered antisemitic when he used it to describe unscrupulous bankers during a rally Thursday in Iowa. Trump was touting the...
Paula Minsk Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, teachers and educational staff have worked hard to strengthen the connection of their students to Israel and its people. Most congregations had already invested a significant...
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - Even before America joined and bombarded Iran, we in Israel - and the world - were much safer than on June 12. And we are far safer than we were on Oct. 7, 2023. Threats remain, but Israel restored deterrence,...
When schools let out and the summer season kicks off, much of community programming and attention is given to kids looking to escape boredom and get cool experiences while they enjoy time off. But there’s one group that doesn’t usually...
An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas and is in South Korean custody, the South’s military said Friday. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and...
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Netanyahu said Wednesday: "There will be no more Hamas. There will be no more Hamastan. We are not going back to that. It's over....We will eliminate Hamas down to its very foundations."
(JTA) — Half of registered voters in New York City say knowing that Zohran Mamdani supports boycotting Israel and has declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” makes them less likely to vote for him in November’s mayoral...
A century ago in Germany, radical-right insurrectionists who had tried to topple the government during the failed Kapp Putsch were set free by a blanket amnesty. What ensued was not law and order but political violence that rocked the...
Friends of the IDF faces internal collapse as leadership turmoil, financial mismanagement and allegations of favoritism threaten donor trust and organizational stability
Deborah Danan | JTA Hours after the cease-fire between Israel and Iran took effect, 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...
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - The name we should remember from last weekend is not the Israelophobic punk who whipped up the smug mob at Glastonbury into a frenzy of violent loathing for the IDF, but rather Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, a...
(The New Arab-UK) Fehrad Bohrami - Following nearly two weeks of Israeli and American airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites, Tehran's leadership has launched what former officials and observers describe as its most aggressive...
Israeli forces reportedly staged a prolonged incursion into Syrian territory overnight Friday, according to the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network and Syrian sources. Three IDF helicopters are said to have landed at a facility once tied to the...
When Sabbatai Zevi converted to Islam, most Jews abandoned their belief in him as the messiah, but several hundred families remained loyal, following him into conversion and writing songs in his honor; a small Sabbatean community still...
(Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security) Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser - Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran have badly damaged the country's nuclear facilities, ballistic missile program, and air defenses. The Iranian nuclear...
It is big and it is beautiful, President Donald Trump says. But for many Democratic leaders, the tax break and spending cut package passed by Trump’s Republican allies in Congress on Thursday represents the key to the Democratic...
(JNS) Dr. Harold Rhode - In the aftermath of Israel's stunning air campaign against Iran, a curious and familiar phenomenon has unfolded across Iranian state media: a theatrical proclamation of victory that is reaching near-hallucinatory...
(Wall Street Journal) Tevi Troy - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been issuing victory tweets: "The Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic." "The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap...
Michael Mashbaum Does anyone else have foreign policy whiplash? I know I certainly do. In just a matter of hours, U.S. President Donald Trump went from authorizing unprecedented airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to absorbing a...
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - During the Iran War, Israel experienced revolutions in the use of drones and using robots to speed up air defense interceptor production, the Defense Ministry revealed on Tuesday. The IDF logged...
(Israel Hayom) Danny Zaken - Gulf sources say several regional countries participated in intercepting drones launched by Iran during the recent war, including Saudi Arabia. The Saudi air force deployed helicopters that intercepted drones...
(JTA) — The acting president of Columbia University apologized to members of the school community Wednesday after leaked text messages showed she had suggested the removal of a Jewish trustee. “The things I said in a moment of...
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Israeli satellites took tens of millions of photos of Iranian territory leading up to, and during, the recent war, the Defense Ministry announced Tuesday. Israel's satellites were surveilling hundreds...
It was 1985. The year Back to the Future came out, which felt appropriate, because I desperately wanted to go back in time — specifically to a time before my parents had dropped me off at Jewish summer camp. Our family station wagon was...
Two 15th-century Orit scrolls discovered through Tel Aviv University program documenting sacred texts of Beta Israel; scholars say find reshapes global understanding of Jewish history preserved in oral tradition and Ge’ez script