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...
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...
On the Record with Bob Cohn will focus on the Israel-Hamas War. Bob will examine what the war means for Israel’s security, as Israel must balance threats from Hamas and regional actors such as Hezbollah...
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’...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 11, 2023
An estimated 1,500 people came together Wednesday at the Jewish Community Center in Creve Coeur Wednesday night to not only show their solidarity for Israel but to grieve, seek solace and explore how they...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
