In a defiant speech to the U.S. Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue fighting in Gaza until Israel achieves “total victory” over Hamas and, in the face of virulent opposition at home and abroad, argued that the war was a shared fight for...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump again said he finds it “amazing” American Jews vote for Democrats and said many do not like Israel, an accusation that has infuriated Jewish groups in the past and that Trump made shortly before he is due to meet with Israeli...
This afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war and at a time of political uncertainty in both the United States and...
In a 1974 novel by the Jewish writer Wallace Markfield, a character quips, “The time is at hand when the wearing of prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House — unless, of course, the man is Jewish.”
The joke sounded...
“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” Gabrielle Zevin’s novel about video game designers, has dominated the bestseller list for two years and was recently chosen as one of the New York Times’ best 100 books of the 21st century. But for months...
The American Technion Society (ATS), Special To The Jewish Light
• Published July 23, 2024
“Stay positive,” we’re told when suffering from an illness. It’s easy to dismiss such comments as platitudes from well-meaning friends. But Technion scientists have demonstrated that activation of the brain’s reward system can boost...
(JTA) — Earlier this month, a group of 10 Jewish Boy Scouts hiked more than 100 miles in New Mexico, but the trek wasn’t the most intense part of their trip. That came on the plane ride home, when two of the scouts and their adult staff members saved...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington, D.C. with families of Israeli hostages, one of his first stops on a highly anticipated trip to the United States and a sign of how much focus is being placed on talks over a hostage release...
WASHINGTON — Coming down the stairs in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 2017, Kamala Harris saw the Western Wall and knew what she had to do.
Harris, then a California senator, reached into her pocket and pulled out a blue kippah and...
Amid backlash, Adidas has removed social media ads featuring Palestinian-American model and activist Bella Hadid from its new campaign for a reissue of a sneaker originally designed for the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 members of the Israeli team were...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published July 22, 2024
With President Joe Biden’s announcement that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, eyes have turned toward Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, as a possible vice presidential running mate.
Shapiro,...
A Jewish student in Dallas was subjected to retaliation by a teacher over a U.S. Department of Education probe of the Dallas Independent School District for alleged Title VI violations, according to the nonprofit StandWithUS.
When the student, one of...
