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 By Sergio Carmona    News    March 8, 2024 

BBYO centennial draws thousands of Jewish teens to Orlando convention

(JNS) - Thousands of Jewish teens and adults from 46 countries gathered at a Rosen Shingle Creek hotel in Orlando, Fla., for BBYO's annual international convention. Held from Feb. 15-19, the convent...

 
 By Ron Kampeas    News    March 8, 2024 

Kamala Harris calls for 6-week 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza and places onus on Israel to deliver aid

(JTA) — Vice President Kamala Harris called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and placed most of the onus on Israel for a shortfall in humanitarian aid entering the enclave.   The call for a cessation of fighting was not actually a change...

 
 News    March 8, 2024 

US opposes calls at ICJ for immediate Israeli withdrawal

(JNS) — The United States on Feb.21 called on the International Court of Justice not to issue an advisory opinion that Israel must immediately withdraw from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. Instead, Richard Visek, acting legal adviser at...

 
 By Mike Wagenheim    News    March 8, 2024 

UN head pushing back on US efforts to replace UNRWA in Gaza

(JNS) — The Biden administration is privately pressing several United Nations agencies to take over the responsibilities of the beleaguered UNRWA but is being rebuffed by U.N. chief António Guterres, according to a report by Devex....

 
 By Ron Kampeas    News    March 8, 2024 

Joe Biden is pressing Congress to send $14B to Israel - what is the emergency aid for?

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — For months, President Joe Biden has asked for — and Congress has debated — sending wartime foreign aid to Israel as it battles Hamas in the Gaza Strip.  The bill currently on the table, passed in a bipartisan vote by...

 
 By Luke Tress    News    March 8, 2024 

Broadway Cares will support relief for Israelis

By (New York Jewish Week) — The philanthropic organization Broadway Cares said it would allocate funds to Israeli civilians in need after complaints from a rabbi and pro-Israel group about the theater charity’s contributions to Gaza relief...

 
 News    March 8, 2024 

Weekly roundup of world briefs

Israeli researchers take step toward cure for Huntington’s disease (JNS) — A new study carried out by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot has identified two molecules capable of penetrating the blood-brain barrier and reducing the...

 
 By Etgar Lefkovits    News    March 8, 2024 

Christian lawmakers head to Israel in biggest mission since war

(JNS) - A group of more than 20 parliamentarians from around the world will gather in Jerusalem this weekend, in the largest political solidarity mission to Israel since the Oct. 7 massacre. The...

 
 By Mike Wagenheim    News    March 8, 2024 

Security Council members agree Gazans are malnourished, disagree on blame

(JNS) — While a senior U.N. aid official said on Tuesday that a quarter of the Gazan population is one step away from famine, Israel and the United States laid blame at the feet of the United Nations and Hamas, respectively. The U.N. Security...

 
 By Etgar Lefkovits    News    March 1, 2024

American Christian Media group: Ax usage of 'West Bank'

(JNS) - The head of a prominent group of American Christian media broadcasters urged members in the association to cease using the term "West Bank" when reporting about Israel's biblical heartland....

 
 By Yoram Ettinger    News    March 1, 2024

US, Israel face the mutual threat of Islamic terrorism

(Ettinger Report via JNS) - FBI Director Christopher A. Wray visited Israel on Feb. 14, 2024, meeting with leaders of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and Israel Police. The goal of the visit was...

 

PA and Hamas unity deal?

(JNS) — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh submitted the collective resignation of his entire government on Monday, the P.A.’s official Wafa news agency reported, amid talk of a unity deal with the Hamas terrorist...

 
 By Joshua Marks    News    March 1, 2024

France confirms 45 Israeli hostages received vital drugs

(JNS) — France confirmed that 45 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have received urgent medications that entered the enclave over a month ago in a deal brokered by Paris and Doha. The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ deputy...

 

London police open investigation after Amy Winehouse statue is defaced with pro-Palestinian sticker

(JTA) - A bronze statue of the late Jewish singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was defaced when a sticker with the Palestinian flag was placed over the statue's Star of David necklace. The management of...

 
 By Juan Melamed    News    March 1, 2024

Argentina will move its embassy to Jerusalem

(JTA) — On his first day of his visit to Israel, Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, told Israeli authorities that his country would move its embassy to Jerusalem. Milei had vowed during his campaign to move the embassy from its current...

 

Weekly roundup of world briefs

‘Fauda’ star posts photo of injuries sustained in Gaza (JNS) — Israeli actor Idan Amedi posted on social media a photo taken soon after he was wounded while fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Amedi, 35, known for his role in the...

 
 By Joshua Marks    News    March 1, 2024

Israel assessing Qatar's claim Hamas handing medical aid to hostages

(JNS) — Israel is evaluating the credibility of Hamas’s confirmation to Qatar that the terrorist group in Gaza received a shipment of medical supplies in a deal brokered by Qatar and France and has started delivering them to hostages in Gaza. Do...

 
 By Asaf Elia-Shalev    News    March 1, 2024

How do Biden's new sanctions affect Jewish charities that donate in Israel?

(JTA) — When the Biden administration announced new sanctions meant to stop the flow of U.S. donations to extremist Israelis, many watchdogs assumed that one charity would be especially concerned. But the Central Fund of Israel says it is unfazed...

 

France sanctions 28  'extremist Israeli settlers'

(JNS) — France banned 28 Israelis from entering the European country, accusing them of attacking Arabs in Judea and Samaria, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday.‘ One day earlier, the U.K. announced similar measures. The statement did not name...

 

Former Moscow chief rabbi, European Jewry win Charlemagne Prize

(JNS) - The western German city of Aachen, which has awarded an annual Charlemagne Prize for nearly 75 years, has recognized Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and European Jewry with the 2024 prize, named...

 

Foreign sanctions: Are they coming for you?

(JNS) — As word spread about four residents of Judea and Samaria being sanctioned for “settler violence,” some scoffed while others wondered what exactly the four did to deserve the infamy. “I wonder what took them so long,” said...

 
 By Joshua Marks    News    February 23, 2024

US, Arabs 'rushing' plan to establish Palestinian state

(JNS) — The Biden administration is preparing to make a major push for Palestinian statehood if a Gaza ceasefire agreement being negotiated in Cairo this week takes effect. According to The Washington Post, the United States and its Arab partners a...

 

Weekly roundup of world briefs

RJC endorses Rep. August Pfluger of Texas (JNS) — Jewish Coalition has selected its 23rd recommendation of candidates in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate this election cycle. “Although he is only in his second term, Congressman...

 

Hours after Israel frees hostages in Rafah, Biden says no operation there sans civilian plan

(JNS) — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israel “should not proceed” with a military operation in the Palestinian city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, without a plan for the more than 1 million civilians currently sheltering...

 
 By Joshua Marks    News    February 23, 2024

French proposal would move Hezbollah 6 miles from border

(JNS) — Paris has brought a proposal to Beirut that aims to prevent a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah over the Iranian terrorist proxy’s cross-border attacks from Lebanon. Last week, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourn...

 

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