Josh Scharff is a Congregation Temple Israel community member and Development Coordinator and Student Rabbi at The Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism in Tel Aviv, Israel Helplessness is a crippling sensation. At 6:30 am on Saturday, October 7,...

Chicago-area residents came together to show solidarity for Israel at a rally at the Reform North Shore Congregation Israel in the heavily Jewish suburb of Glencoe on Tuesday. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.),...

The Hamas attack on Israel Saturday elicited resounding condemnation from elected officials across the United States. There have also been bipartisan pledges in Congress to provide emergency military aid to Israel.  But while President Joe Biden...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — On paper, the agenda must have seemed dry, an accounting of flights out of Israel, of military equipment going into Israel and of call centers. But amid the niceties that routinely mark the opening of such meetings, Shelley...

(JTA) — A pile of bodies at a bus stop. Burned corpses in a safe room. Entire families slaughtered together. A toddler’s room drenched in blood. Four days after Hamas attacked Israel, emergency responders are still combing through the carnage...

Among the 260 Israelis who attended a music festival near Gaza and were murdered by Hamas terrorists Saturday was Gili Adar, a beloved counselor at Camp Ben Frankel in the summer of 2017. She was 24 years old and from Lapid, a settlement community...

"There is nothing I'd rather be doing with my life right now, more than serving the country of Israel," said Myles Rosenblum, his voice, steady with conviction, with just a hint of anger. "To my core and soul, nothing is more important. I know deep down...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden issued a forceful condemnation of Hamas, and pledged American support for Israel, as he announced that the number of American dead from the terror group’s invasion of Israel is now 14. As many as 20 Americans...

(New York Jewish Week) – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the prominent progressive Democratic New York congresswoman from New York City, condemned a pro-Palestinian rally that took place over the weekend in Times Square, calling it “unacceptable and...

(JTA) — A number of Israeli and Jewish schools are urging parents to limit their children’s access to social media apps such as TikTok and Instagram due to concerns of increasingly graphic content that may be shared from Israel and Gaza. David...

(JTA) — When Hamas terrorists broke into her home early Saturday morning, Rachel Adari didn’t have any guns. But she had another kind of weapon: cookies, which she offered to the men who held her and her husband captive for the next 15 hours,...