JERUSALEM—Here are some recent stories out of Israel that you may have missed: A Moshe by any other name The Knesset is going on the offensive against offensive baby names. A parliamentary committee has advanced a bill that would bar parents from sticking...
JERUSALEM -- Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit reportedly has opened a Facebook page. The Facebook page is not open to other social media users, according to reports. He reportedly only has a few Facebook friends, including his sister and some...
Some 550 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails in the second stage of the prisoner swap for captured soldier Gilad Shalit.The prisoners, including six women, were handed over by Israel on Sunday night. They left from the Ayalon Prison near Tel...
By Jacob Kamaras, JointMedia News Service
• Published November 30, 2011
A typical day in the life of Alan Gross entails walking around his room a couple thousand times, push-ups and sit-ups, and reading. He doesn't have access to kosher food, and if he sees something moving on his plate he pushes it away. That's the description...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 16, 2011
After joining the Israeli military, Stan Hoffman understood that he had volunteered to serve the Jewish homeland-yet the 19-year-old native St. Louisan had never felt farther from home. "The families would come and visit their kids," recalled the Ladue...
After more than five years is captivity, Gilad Shalit finally makes his way to his home at Mitzpe Hila as a free man. October 18, 2011. Shalit was brought by helicopter after undergoing medical examination to ensure his safe arrival and was greeted by...
NEW YORK - Noam Shalit, the father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, wants his son's plight to be part of the discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September.In his view, Shalit's release should be a precondition of any vote...
JERUSALEM - The wave of protests sweeping Israel is about much more than the lack of affordable housing: It's a grass-roots demand for the major redistribution of the nation's wealth.In social terms, protesters are calling for a more caring government...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR
• Published July 13, 2011
Notes from homeThe Jewish Community Center runs a nifty summer camp and, one of its strong suits is that it exposes campers to young Israelis who serve as counselors there. These young people are part of a program that teaches them to be shlichim - emissaries...
Noam Shalit, father of kidnapped israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, sits unerneath a banner depicting his son, and late kidnapped soldier Ron Arad (R), in a protest tent set up in support of Gilad's release outside the Prime Minister's residence in jerusalem...
JERUSALEM — Michal Naamani went to Jerusalem from her home in a town near Kfar Saba on Friday to hand out yellow ribbons to passersby and bumper stickers to motorists reading "Gilad is alive." A high school teacher, Naamani felt she wanted to do something...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published May 25, 2011
Let's get past this U.S.-Israel relationship thing, so we can get on with important stuff, like the U.S.-Israel relationship.That seemed to be the message this week at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.With a...
