For over a year, an image of the Bibas family in Batman pajamas symbolized the global call for their return from captivity in Gaza. This Purim, children in Israel and beyond are dressing as Batman for Purim to honor Ariel Bibas, the 4-year-old who was...

Once again, Camp Ben Frankel is asking the St. Louis Jewish community for its help. Last summer, the camp launched an emergency fundraising campaign to try to bring up to 17 Israeli children affected by the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas...

U.S. President Donald Trump praised efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel activist and recent graduate of Columbia University whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested on Saturday. “Following my previously signed executive orders,...

Liberal Jewish groups joined the chorus condemning the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University who was detained by ICE and threatened with deportation. The statements came amid a cascade of condemnation and protest...

A version of this story originally appeared on CincyJewfolk, an independent journalism and engagement site for Cincinnati’s Jewish community. When Rabbi Ari Jun learned that faith leaders were invited to speak at a rally in Cincinnati against neo-Nazis...

President Donald Trump posted a message that began “Shalom Hamas,” and proceeded to threaten the terror group with destruction if it did not release the nearly 60 hostages it still holds. “Shalom,” one of the most well-known Hebrew words, translates...

The White House has confirmed that U.S. officials are holding talks with Hamas representatives in an effort to negotiate an end to the Gaza war. Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s hostage envoy, who is Jewish, met with Hamas officials in Doha,...

A 17-year-old Israeli girl who was critically injured in a terror attack last week has died of her wounds. Yahli Gur was one of more than a dozen people wounded when an attacker rammed his vehicle into a bus stop roughly midway between Tel Aviv and...

A Florida editor says he was fired by his local paper, part of a national network, after he ran a cartoon that was critical of the death toll in the war in Gaza. Tony Doris says he was fired as editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post in February...

Lizzy Savetsky, a top influencer and pro-Israel activist, sparked controversy this week after posting to social media a clip of Meir Kahane conveying the message that Arabs in the Middle East only understand force and fear. Back in the 1980s, Kahane,...

Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, said on Tuesday that removing Hamas from power in Gaza was a “red line” for the Trump administration as Israel and Hamas prepare for the next round of ceasefire negotiations. Speaking at the...

Is Donald Trump backing away from his vision to transform Gaza into a beachside resort? Not according to a video the president posted late Tuesday to his Truth Social account that imagines the Palestinian enclave as “Trump Gaza.” The AI-generated...