(JTA) — A strikingly long list of celebrities launched a campaign called #NoHostageLeftBehind on Monday, aimed at pressuring President Joe Biden to continue to work to secure the release of the more than 200 hostages taken captive by Hamas on Oct....
(JTA) — As news broke of Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, David Weinstein shared the grief and fear of many in the American Jewish community. But as the director of Camp Tel Yehudah, a Jewish summer camp in New York, the violence soon hit...
(JTA) — Hamas has freed two women, ages 79 and 85, whom it was holding hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.
The release of Nurit Yitzhak and Yocheved Lifshitz comes after the terror group released two other hostages, Natalie and...
Eliyahu Freedman, JTA
• Published October 23, 2023
TEL AVIV (JTA) — On Monday morning, Roxane Runel posted a photograph to Instagram of two Israeli military officers addressing a crowd of reporters in an auditorium. Behind them is a giant television screen.
“Press conference between the international...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 19, 2023
On Thursday, Oct. 5, Galit Lev-Harir mounted her mountain bike in the Golan Heights. She rode along with a group of Israeli bikers and made stops along pivotal points of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. During that war, three Israeli tanks faced off against 177...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For more than a week, Herbert Block’s phone has been buzzing nonstop with messages from people he doesn’t know who want to give him money.
He doesn’t mind the unsolicited callers, all of whom are asking the same thing:...
(JTA) — President Joe Biden secured an agreement from Israel to allow the transfer of humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip during his visit to Israel on Wednesday and said the United States would provide $100 million in humanitarian to the Palestinians.
“Based...
By Alissa Barnholtz, Senior, Parkway Central High School.
• Published October 18, 2023
I can’t stay quiet anymore.
I am proud to be Jewish. I am scared to be Jewish.
I am highly aware that I’m not an expert on this topic, but I do know that what happened at 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 in Israel was an act of terrorism.
More than 4,400...
BY NATHAN ARST, Senior, Parkway Central High School.
• Published October 18, 2023
The Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 changed Israel and the world forever. An astounding 1,300 people were killed in a brutal rampage that murdered more Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.
As soon as I heard about the attacks, I reached out...
(JTA) — Israel has concluded that an explosion at a Gaza City hospital that reportedly killed hundreds of people was the result of an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group in Gaza.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority both...
By Yulia Karra, Israel 21c
• Published October 17, 2023
A host of stars of the popular Israeli TV show Fauda are among hundreds of thousands of Israelis called up for reserve duty over the past 10 days.
Israel declared war on October 7 after more than 1,500 Hamas gunmen infiltrated Israel from the Gaza...
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
• Published October 17, 2023
This piece originally appeared as a letter to the Hebrew College community.
(JTA) — Like so many others, I spent much of last week searching for language to describe and respond to the new reality in which we find ourselves. As Israeli novelist...
