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War In Israel

Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks during the 15th Annual Holocaust Museum LA Gala at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Nov. 6, 2023. The museum's statement about its retracted social media post of Sept. 5, 2025, is inset. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

L.A. Holocaust museum sparks outrage with now deleted post

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 8, 2025

(JTA) — Amid sharp criticism, Los Angeles’ Holocaust museum deleted an Instagram post over the weekend that proclaimed, ”’Never again’ can’t only mean never again for Jews.” The museum apologized for the post and shot down speculation...

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at Ramot Junction, near the entrance to Jerusalem, Sept. 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Six murdered in Jerusalem shooting by ‘Palestinian resistance fighters’

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 8, 2025

Six Israelis were murdered and a dozen more wounded in a mass-shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on Monday morning. The slain victims were identified as Yosef David, 43, from Jerusalem; Sarah Mendelson,...

A vigil organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Maryland campus took place under court order on Oct. 7, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Judge lifts Pitt ban, reinstates SJP chapter amid campus protests

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished September 3, 2025

(JTA) — The Pitt SJP chapter was reinstated by a federal judge, who ordered the University of Pittsburgh to lift its suspension, saying the school unfairly restricted the pro-Palestinian group’s ability to recruit students as the new school year...

A room in the permanent exhibit of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, discussing the origins of the term "genocide," August 18, 2025. The center's permanent exhibit space was overhauled in 2024. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

Genocide scholars blast Israel over Gaza war vote

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 2, 2025

(JTA) — A major association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying that Israel’s two-year military campaign in Gaza constitutes genocide. Israel’s Foreign Ministry immediately rejected the determination, accusing the scholars...

Sylvan Adams (right) hosts an event for Make-A-Wish Israel at his Tel Aviv home with organization co-founders Denise and Avi Bar-Aharon. Credit: @lans production, Aug. 27, 2025.

Israel ‘failing miserably’ in media war, warns Sylvan Adams

Etgar Lefkovits (JNS)Published August 29, 2025

Israel is “failing miserably” in the communications war against Hamas, and needs to take this deteriorating situation, fueled by a trillion-dollar campaign by Qatar, much more seriously, the president of the World Jewish Congress’s Israel Region...

Former U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White House, May 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ex-Biden aides unload on Netanyahu: ‘He sabotaged ceasefire’

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished August 28, 2025

(JTA) — Top administration officials under former President Joe Biden are speaking out against Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza and criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he sabotaged ceasefire negotiations last...

Rabbi Yosef Blau, former spiritual adviser at Yeshiva University, addresses members of Smol Emuni, an organization of liberal observant Jews, in a video shown at their conference in March, 2025. (Courtesy Smol Muni)

An Orthodox rabbi breaks the silence on Gaza. Responds to critics

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished August 28, 2025

(JTA) — For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “mashgiach ruchani” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure who served as a sort of spiritual guidance counselor to students at Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship...

Yarden Gonen, whose sister Romi Gonen remains captive in Gaza, speaks at a rally in Central Park, New York, Dec. 15, 2024.  (Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters)

Families worry after new claims about hostages in Gaza

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished August 25, 2025

(JTA) — President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that some Israeli hostages have died inside Gaza since the last ceasefire, alarming families of the 20 hostages thought to remain alive. Trump made the comment while speaking to reporters at the...

The grave of slain Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin at Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem, July 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

On yahrzeit of 6 slain hostages, Hamas said to accept ceasefire deal

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished August 19, 2025

(JTA) — Jews around the world are marking a grim date on Tuesday: the first anniversary on the Jewish calendar of when six hostages were murdered by Hamas in captivity, shortly after the collapse of negotiations that would have freed at least some...

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