Weekly roundup of world briefs

Hamas planned ‘second phase’ for Oct. 7 massacre (JNS) — A planned second phase of Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel involved joining forces with terrorists in Judea and Samaria, The Washington Post reported on Sunday,...

Erdogan: Israel a 'terrorist state,' Hamas 'resistance fighters'

(JNS) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday called Israel a “terrorist state” and described Hamas terrorists as “resistance fighters.” Erdoğan claimed that Israel was attempting to eradicate all of the Gaza Strip and...

The youngest hostage

(JNS) - Nine months old. The smiling red-haired baby had recently started to crawl after rocking on all fours. Kfir Bibas lived with his parents and 4-year-old brother in a kibbutz in southern...

International news outlets deny colluding with Hamas after report suggests photographers knew attack plans

By Luke Tress (JTA) — International news outlets denied that they had advance knowledge of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, after a report suggested without hard evidence that their photographers may have coordinated with the terror group ahead...

ZOA condemns Biden/Blinken approval of $10B in sanctions relief for Iran

On the very same day when over three hundred thousand Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike, travelled to Washington, D.C., to support Israel’s efforts to prevent Hamas from ever slaughtering innocent Jews again, President Joe Biden and Secretary of...

The truth is Israel's narrative

(JNS) — Paul Kessler went to a pro-Hamas demonstration in the Los Angeles area waving an Israeli flag to stand down the crowd gathered to support the genocide of Jews. A pro-Hamas demonstrator, who tracked the 69-year-old before he approached...

The unthinkable things inside and under Gazan hospitals

The other day, I was reading my grandson the Dr. Seuss classic, “In a People House.” It was a needed respite for me, a break from incessantly following the news of the war in Israel, albeit that the Red Alert app on my phone sounded throughout,...

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK: Just a few thoughts on Haman, Hitler, Hamas and Herzl

By Remember Haman? The book of Esther tells the story of this horrible man in the king’s court who planned to kill all the Jews in the Persian/Medes kingdom — a kingdom that stretched from India to Ethiopia. Haman gave 10,000 talents of silver...

Sarsour: 'Kidnapped' posters are a Jewish conspiracy

(JNS) — There’s a theme that emerges when defending the atrocities of Hamas and its supporters: “You made us do it.” And the next step beyond that is the suggestion that the crimes committed by Hamas and its supporters were really a form...

The world must re-evaluate its values

(JNS) — After 75 years of a successful Israel, it’s hard to imagine that in its early years, Zionism garnered less than 10 percent of global Jewry’s support. Many Jews preferred to assimilate into the nations in which they resided. Others...

Veteran New York Times' reporter blames Israel for attacks

(JNS) — The former Israel bureau chief of The New York Times has discovered who is really to blame for the Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7: Israel. This vile bit of slander comes from the pen of Ethan Bronner, who spent 26 years at the Times posing...

What 9 Jewish teens from across the US took away from marching for Israel in DC

(JTA) — They went to Washington, D.C., to support Israel and left the rally with a deepened sense of the Jewish community in the United States. So said teenagers who were among the estimated 290,000 Israel supporters who gathered on the National...

Reliving an old memory

In today's crazy world, it is hard to find things for which to be thankful. So I have been trying to find gratitude in the small things: a FaceTime with my children and grandchildren; a good cup of...

Life in Sussia, Israel

Yesterday I was speaking to a friend on the phone in the USA. She asked me about my children, about the situation here, about any updates. Then she tried to change the subject. She actually started talking about something else. I don’t remember...

Insights from The Orlando Senior Help Desk: Legal Planning

Without proper legal planning, caring for aging loved ones is often emotionally and financially distressing for everyone involved. Families struggle at the last minute to find information, guidance and assistance to handle the complex health care,...

Obituary - ARLENE BARBARA HARRIS

Mrs. Arlene Harris, 84, passed away peacefully after battling pancreatic cancer on Oct. 27, 2023 at Advent Health Hospice Care in Altamonte Springs. Arlene was born on Oct. 14, 1939, in New York. She and her husband, Charles, later moved to...

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