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25 has come to a close. In Israel, this time of year is evident by the changing landscape, notably the fruits on the trees, the grapes in the vineyards. If there was no calendar to tell us the date, we would still know it was the High Holydays. We feel a need to focus on our recent announcement about the establishment of an ambulance fleet dedicated in memory of Charlie Kirk, z"l. In response to that announcement, we received thoughtful feedback, and we realized we may have unintentionally...
By Steve Lipman Some recent news in the Jewish community: In Brooklyn, Amir (not his real name), a young real estate agent who had drifted from his roots in an Orthodox Jewish household, began flying a large Israeli flag outside his apartment in a mostly non-Jewish neighborhood. Intrigued, a bypassing rabbi introduced himself and encouraged Amir to become active in the activities of a nearby Chabad center. And since then, Amir has resumed his life as an observant Jew, davening every day and putting on tefillin. In Chicago, Detroit-born,...
(JNS) - The first trailer for "Red Alert," a four-part series depicting the harrowing events during the Hamas-led invasion and massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, was released on Thursday. The mini-series, in Hebrew Or Rishon ("First Light"), will premiere globally on Oct. 7, 2025, on the second anniversary of the atrocities that led to Israel's almost two-year war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It will air in the United States on Paramount+ and in Israel on Channel 12. Another...
(JNS) — More than 50,000 new immigrants have arrived in Israel since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, according to figures released by the Jewish Agency for Israel ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. In addition, through Masa Israel Journey, a Jewish Agency program in partnership with the Israeli government, roughly 20,000 young people from Jewish communities abroad have come to Israel to volunteer and support the country. Tens of thousands of Jews have participated in aliyah fairs held worldwide since Oct. 7, and m...
(JTA) — Around 1,200 Hollywood names, including stars like Liev Schrieber, Mayim Bialik and Jennifer Jason Leigh, have signed onto an open letter opposing a growing celebrity boycott of the Israeli film industry. Led by Creative Community for Peace, a pro-Israel entertainment group, the letter argues that the stated boycott against Israeli film institutions will harm Israeli work that pushes for peace and criticizes the government and further encourage antisemitism. It comes after similar criticism of the boycott from Paramount, whose former c...
In the millennia of Jewish history, several momentous events have stood out as turning points that subsequently influenced the lives of the Jewish people. The exodus from Egypt. The giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem, and the Jewish exiles that followed. The writing of the Talmud. But many of these events are literally ancient history. And obvious. Some more-recent events in Jewish history have also played significant but often subtle roles in...
Netanyahu: There will be no Palestinian state By JNS Staff (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that there will not be Palestinian state, and said that an Israeli response to the international recognition by various Western countries will come upon his return from a visit to the United States. “I have a clear message to those leaders who have recognized a Palestinian state after the terrible massacre of October 7: You are granting a huge prize to terrorism,” Netanyahu said. “And I have another message: It will...
Adams is out — but who will get his votes? Mayor Eric Adams quit his reelection bid on Sunday, ending an unpopular, scandal-ridden administration and a longshot campaign to hold onto Grace Mansion. Adams was consistently polling fourth, behind Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. But Jews made up an important part of his base. According to a Quinnipiac poll released earlier this month, of the 12 percent of voters who favored Adams, 42 percent said they were Jewish. A...
A pizzeria in the German city of Fürth, Bavaria, is banning Israelis in protest against the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in the second such antisemitic incident in the country in as many weeks. The move sparked outrage, with the local Jewish community in the southeastern state denouncing the move as a rerun of the antisemitism of Nazi Germany, while the Israeli embassy in Berlin also stated that it seemed like a return to the 1930s. “We believe that children should not be harmed under any circumstances,” a sign posted at the...
(JNS) — The Hamas terror group published a propaganda video of Israeli hostage Alon Ohel, just hours before the Jewish people marked Rosh Hashanah. Ohel’s family has requested that no photos or excerpts from the video be published. “Our family is shaken and in pain following the release of Alon’s video by Hamas. It’s evident that Alon is losing vision in his right eye, and he appears thin and distressed,” said the captive’s parents, Idit and Kobi, in a statement issued by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum. “We demand that as a preconditi...
Elon Musk has intensified his long-running feud with the Anti-Defamation League, calling the Jewish civil rights group a “hate group” in a post on X, the platform he owns and renamed from Twitter. “The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is [sic] a hate group,” Musk wrote Sunday, responding to a pseudonymous account that had claimed the ADL views Christianity as extremist. The exchange drew quick amplification from right-wing figures. U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, accused the ADL of “intentionally creating a targeted hate...
“Being a fan of the Mets is like very, very much being Jewish — you know, you suffer,” Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman tells me. “Every now and then, you have wonderful, wonderful, great, great, great celebration — and then some more suffering.” Perlman, who turned 80 on Aug. 31, was describing his recent birthday celebration — a Chinese dinner in Flushing with loved ones, followed by a trip to Citi Field “to watch the Mets lose,” as he described it. Ever the optimist, the virtuoso — who has won a whopping 16 Grammys and has con...
