WASHINGTON (JTA) — A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces urged AIPAC and its followers to stick with Israel as it attacks Hamas even when “the going gets ugly” and “the scenes out of Gaza will be hard to stomach.”
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus,...
(JTA) — Some Jewish institutions are closing down for the day Friday amid fears about Hamas-inspired violence abroad, although the FBI and major Jewish security groups say they are not aware of specific threats against Jewish targets in the United...
The Israel Defense Forces has marked Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and the entire leadership of the Hamas terror regime as targets for elimination ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive, five days after Israel suffered the worst massacre in...
Rabbi Yonason Goldson, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 12, 2023
My son thought he was going to Israel to spend the holidays with his sister and fiancee. Now he’s stationed at the Lebanon-Syria border.
He completed his three years in an elite combat unit about five years ago, went to work in the travel industry,...
BY PHILISSA CRAMER, JTA
• Published October 12, 2023
(JTA) — Former president Donald Trump touted himself as “the best friend Israel has ever had” while criticizing Israel’s leadership during a speech in Florida on Thursday night in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Trump also praised Hezbollah...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden said he is designating experts to help in the effort to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas. The announcement came following U.S. confirmation that there are Americans among the more than 100 captives...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 11, 2023
Yarden Avnor is a Tel Aviv-based Israeli-American. For the past week she has been staying with her father, who lives in St. Louis. Avnor is an Ph.D. clinical neuropsychology student at the University of Haifa and she is associated with the Washington...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — One of the earliest shocking atrocities to emerge from Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Saturday happened at the Tribe of Nova music festival, an all-night rave near Kibbutz Re’im on the Gaza border.
Terrorists descended upon the...
By Josh Scharff, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 11, 2023
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,...
Bradley Martin, (JNS)
• Published October 11, 2023
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.),...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published October 11, 2023
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...
