BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published June 23, 2024
On Sunday, 18 Israeli children began their first American summer camp adventure at Camp Ben Frankel, a Jewish sleepaway camp located in Makanda, Ill., about two hours south of St. Louis. All of these youngsters were either displaced from their homes...
Marjorie N. Feld, Babson College, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published June 21, 2024
Since October 2023, American Jews have been engaged in an intense, fractious debate over Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.
Media reports say that American Jews are experiencing “the great rupture,” widening “rifts,” and stand at a “moral,...
(New York Jewish Week) — When anti-Israel activists protested outside a Lower Manhattan exhibition commemorating the victims of the Nova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, they were condemned as antisemitic by some of Israel’s critics as well as its...
Israel will likely get significant airtime next week during the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential election between President Joe Biden and Donalt Trump. Two Jewish journalists, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, will moderate the matchup,...
WASHINGTON — White House officials denied withholding weapons from Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement criticizing the Biden administration for an “inconceivable” delay in delivering weapons.
The exchange...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 18, 2024
Since the Anti-Defamation League released its first-ever Campus Antisemitism Report Card in April, universities across the U.S. have experienced a significant increase in antisemitic incidents and hostile campus climates. This surge led the ADL to reassess...
Steeply discounted shipping of donations to support the Israeli war effort aboard El AL aircraft is coming back days after Israel’s national airline said it planned to end the program.
El Al’s decision to reinstate the discount follows reporting...
(JNS) -- Not long after her confrontation with veteran actor Alec Baldwin, the provocative anti-Israel activist who goes by the name “Crackhead Barney” has found a new target: the acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino, who lives in Tel Aviv and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disbanded the small war cabinet he established at the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, reverting to Israel’s pre-Oct. 7 governing system.
Netanyahu established the war cabinet days after Hamas’ invasion...
(JTA) — Since Oct. 7, more than 40% of American Jews have felt unsafe wearing Jewish symbols in public and more than a quarter have chosen not to mention their Jewish identity when they meet someone new, according to a new survey.
The survey,...
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied outside the White House, accusing President Joe Biden of not enforcing a “red line” to keep Israel from harming civilians in Gaza, a harbinger of continued anger on the left with U.S. policy toward Israel...
Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz quit Israel’s three-person war Cabinet, repositioning himself as a potential replacement for his longtime rival Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the unity that defined Israel’s initial response to the war against...
