In addition to its current  Israel Emergency Fund to provide services, support and hope for friends and family in Israel, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis is launching a "Blue Ribbons for Israel" campaign in support of the safe return of the hostages...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — In its first action under its new speaker, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the deadly invasion of Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, which launched Israel’s current war against the terror group in Gaza. The...

In difficult times, people respond in all sorts of unexpected ways – hence the unusual trend of  soldiers called up for reserve duty growing dubious facial hair in the form of scraggly mustaches. @hamalachim הם מוכנים למלחמה 😀...

Within hours of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, thousands of Israeli soldiers and reservists started receiving calls that they were being activated for duty. Many of them were here in the United States. As these young men and women began their trek...

(JTA) — For pro-Israel students at Brandeis University, the two weeks since Hamas attacked Israel had been, at least in part, a period of relief: Their campus hadn’t been convulsed by the kind of anti-Israel sentiment that was roiling so many others. That...

U.S. voters overwhelmingly view Israel favorably and disapprove of Hamas, according to this month’s Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, released by Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies and Harris Insights and Analytics. When it came to...

Shaving Israel, the St. Louis-based group that supports IDF soldiers with toiletries and other items, is in need of donations to send supplies to Israel, according to board member Laura Goldmeier. “Right now, we’re spending a lot of money to try...

(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...

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...

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...