Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy, landed in Tel Aviv on a direct private flight from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday afternoon, according to reports in Israeli media.
Witkoff is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister...
By Benyamin Cohen, The Forward
• Published January 29, 2025
BALTIMORE — Barak Hermann does not sit still. By the time I arrived at the JCC in Baltimore, Hermann was already on the move, steering the ship until he starts his new job as CEO and President of the JCC Association of North America this summer.
As...
Hamas has reportedly informed Israel that it will free eight hostages tomorrow, including two Israeli women and an elderly Israeli man.
The Israeli hostages reportedly to be released are civilians Arbel Yehud, 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, as well as soldier...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration froze a $50 million federal disbursement for “condoms in Gaza.”
The Office of Management and Budget and the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency...
Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, met with Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday in Riyadh, according to sources familiar with the matter, Axios reported.
This...
Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet President Donald Trump at the White House next week, a date that would make the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be invited to Trump’s residence since he retook office.
Netanyahu’s office announced...
The American Technion Society (ATS), Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 28, 2025
In an exciting collaboration, award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and Warner Bros. are set to bring the extraordinary life of Al Schwimmer to the big screen. Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran, is celebrated as the father of the...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Witkoff will reportedly discuss advancing an agreement to normalize relations between Israel...
Center for Israel Education, israeled.org
• Published January 27, 2025
Jan. 27, 2006 — U.N. Holds First Holocaust Remembrance Day
The first U.N.-recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson, says...
Akiva Van Koningsveld, JNS
• Published January 27, 2025
Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy, on Sunday described the ceasefire deal he helped broker between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization as “the most worthy thing I could ever do in my life.”
Speaking alongside Israeli...
(JTA) — Keith Siegel, an American taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, will reportedly be released in the coming days as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
The report on NBC News, citing Israeli sources, is a sign that Siegel is alive. It came hours...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 26, 2025
In a fraught moment in the film “A Real Pain,” Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go on a roots tour of Poland, berates his fellow travellers for riding in a first-class train car in a country where so many Jews...
