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Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau and Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a ceremony selling chametz ahead of Passover in Jerusalem, April 4, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Oct. 7 memorial for Jews of color ‘missed opportunity’ for unity, says American Sephardi...

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A group that describes itself as “unabashedly progressive” is defending its decision to hold an Oct. 7 memorial for “Sephardic, Mizrachi and all Jews of color,” after the event drew criticism from the American...

Afghan man faces 35 years in prison for allegedly planning terror attack on Election...

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The U.S. Justice Department has charged Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, a 27-year-old Afghan citizen who lives in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Tuesday with planning a terror attack on Nov. 5—Election Day—in the name of ISIS. Tawhedi faces up...
Israelis visit the site of the Nova music festival massacre in Re'im, in southern Israel, Oct. 6, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Horrors, hostages and heroes: The first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks

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Hearts pounded with fear as sirens blared, rocket interceptions boomed across the sky as men, women and children ran for safety and their lives to nearby bomb shelters on the Jewish holiday of Simchat...
A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered at the Oct. 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

The real lessons of Oct. 7 must not be ignored

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The first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in southern Israel adds yet another sacred date to a calendar already filled with those devoted to mourning tragedies in Jewish history. But the fresh...

Enhancing Strategic Deterrence: Israel, Iran, and Limited Nuclear War

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For by Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.” Proverbs 24.6 For mostly good reason, policy discussions of Israel’s nuclear strategy and doctrine have been intentionally vague and without evident nuance.  More specifically, there have been few open-literature...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for new judges at his official residence in Jerusalem, June 23, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Biden offers sympathy to Herzog on Oct. 7, ‘deep sadness’ for ‘loss of innocent...

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In a phone call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7 that left 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage into the...
Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) speaks at a rally and march on the National Mall to honor the heroes of the Oct. 7 massacre and remember the hostages still in captivity in Washington, D.C, Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images.

Hamas started the war, ‘Israel is going to finish it,’ Vance says at pro-Israel...

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J.D. Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, headlined a “Remembering Oct. 7” event on a sun-drenched afternoon in Washington, D.C., which brought hundreds of attendees to the National Mall. “The best way to end the...
An undated picture of Idan Shtivi, 28, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, and whose body was taken to the Gaza Strip. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli hostage Idan Shtivi declared dead

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Israeli hostage Idan Shtivi, previously believed to be alive in Hamas captivity, was murdered during the terror group’s attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and his body taken to Gaza, Channel 12 reported on Monday, the first...
Former President Donald Trump, accompanied by rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, prays at the Rebbe's Ohel in Queens, N.Y. Photo by Shabbos Kestenbaum/Chabad.org.

Former President Trump marks Oct. 7 with prayer visit to Ohel in New York

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Marking one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump paid a personal prayer visit on Monday afternoon to the Ohel in...
Friends and family of the victims of the Nova music festival massacre gather at the site in southern Israel one year after the attack, Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel marks a year since Oct. 7 with official state ceremony

The state ceremony marking one year since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 infiltration and assault in Israel aired on television on Monday night, with pre-recorded speeches by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. The...