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A Tesla logo is pictured on a car in the rain in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Israel asks Tesla to bid on tender for top officials’ cars

Akiva Van Koningsveld, JNSPublished March 13, 2025

Israel has invited Tesla to submit a bid for an official government electric vehicle tender, a senior Israeli official told JNS. The decision to consider Tesla vehicles for top officials is part of an effort to prioritize high-performance cars, with the...

Children and their teachers and parents dressed up for Purim, some as Batman in honor of the slain Bibas brothers, at the Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2025.(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Children in Israel and beyond are dressing as Batman for Purim to honor the slain Bibas brothers

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished March 13, 2025

For over a year, an image of the Bibas family in Batman pajamas symbolized the global call for their return from captivity in Gaza. This Purim, children in Israel and beyond are dressing as Batman for Purim to honor Ariel Bibas, the 4-year-old who was...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen before a portrait of Theodor Herzl, known as the "Visionary of the Jewish State" and the founder of modern Zionism in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018.

Voting opens in election for World Zionist Congress, with future of Israel at stake

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished March 10, 2025

Voting opens Monday in an election that gives American Jews a rare chance to directly shape the future of Israel. The U.S. election for seats in the 39th World Zionist Congress will help determine the balance of power in the legislative authority of...

John Cleese poses for a picture during a book signing in London, Sept. 10, 2020. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

John Cleese to perform in Israel in June

JNS STAFFPublished March 5, 2025

Legendary British comedian and actor John Cleese, 85, is set to return to Israel for three performances this June in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Famous as a member of Monty Python and for his roles in “Fawlty Towers” and “A Fish Called Wanda,” Cleese’s...

Nani Noam Vazana

Ladino: The lost Jewish language that still sings in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 25, 2025

For many in the St. Louis Jewish community, the term Ladino might be unfamiliar—but it shouldn’t be. This centuries-old language, a blend of medieval Spanish, Hebrew and other influences from across the Mediterranean, once thrived among Sephardic...

Exploring Israel’s future: What’s next for democracy, gender, and Jewish identity?

Exploring Israel’s future: What’s next for democracy, gender, and Jewish identity?

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 20, 2025

For the first time in history, Jewish fundamentalists hold the highest offices in Israel. Their goal? To reshape the country into a theocracy. What does that mean for democracy? What does that mean for American Jews? Dr. Tomer Persico and Yael Yechieli,...

An olive tree named in honor of Dr. Miriam Adelson. Credit: Courtesy/My Tree in Israel Archive Photo.

Fruit of the field: Adopting olive trees in Israel

Etgar Lefkovits, JNSPublished February 19, 2025

MOSHAV HAYOGEV, Israel—The row upon row of pristine olive trees that line the green farmland in this northern Israeli village stretch as far as the eye can see. Olive trees flourish at the agricultural village at Hayogev (meaning “farmer” in Hebrew),...

Dan Winograd

New role for Dan Winograd at NHBZ

Published February 19, 2025

Dan Winograd is the new president of Nusach Hari B’nai Zion board of directors for a two-year term. He is vice president of Finance at Oral Surgery Partners.

The delegation included Karen Sher, Vice President of Community Impact; Amanda Miller, Vice President of Communications; Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg, Israel & Overseas Committee Chair; Kenny Salky, Committee Member; Rick Cornfeld, Committee Member; Marcy Cornfeld, former Committee Member; and Eliad Ben Shushan, Jewish Federation Representative and Director of the Yokneam, Megiddo, St. Louis and Atlanta Partnership2Gether initiative.

From war to recovery: How St. Louis based programs are helping Israelis rebuild their lives!

Published February 12, 2025

A week in Israel gave a group of St. Louis Jewish leaders a firsthand look at resilience, grief and the deep connections that sustain communities in crisis. Members of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Israel & Overseas Committee recently returned...

Yad Vashem’s Holocaust survivor art exhibit at New York’s City Hall. (Yad Vashem)

Unique Yad Vashem exhibit and street naming highlight NYC’s commitment to remember the Holocaust

Larry Luxner, JTAPublished February 9, 2025

(JTA) — A unique Holocaust art exhibition opened this week in New York’s City Hall. In “The Wandering Jew,” a 1947 oil-and-canvas painting by Dutch artist Eliazer Neuberger, a barefoot man wearing torn garments gazes forward while behind him...

Israel orders terrorists’ release frozen after ‘horrific’ mobbing of released hostages

JNS StaffPublished January 30, 2025

Jerusalem has frozen the release of terrorists whose sentences were to be commuted under the ceasefire deal with Hamas, after “horrifying scenes” were witnessed during the release of Israeli hostages Arbel Yehud and Gadi Mozes on Thursday, according...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Donald Trump participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 4

Ben Sales, JTAPublished January 28, 2025

Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet President Donald Trump at the White House next week, a date that would make the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be invited to Trump’s residence since he retook office. Netanyahu’s office announced...

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