Argentina’s first ‘Jewish’ president? Milei wins decisive victory
Argentina's newly elected president, Javier Milei, won a resounding victory on Sunday on promises to save the country's crumbling economy. But Jewish issues, too, are close to his heart.
“I am thinking about converting to...
‘Wartime magician’ performs 26 shows in nine days for kids in Israel
Alan Sakowitz just completed a whirlwind tour in Israel to entertain both displaced children and children of Israeli soldiers.
Sakowitz performed in Efrat, Kiryat Gat, Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem and Beitar, doing 26 shows from Oct....
‘Be on the front lines,’ former Canadian envoy Irwin Cotler advises young Jews
Irwin Cotler, the 83-year-old human-rights advocate and former Canadian parliamentarian, received the lifetime achievement award of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs last month at a conference in Ottawa.
The award, according to organizers, recognized “his...
Farewell to Liel, 12-year-old victim of Hamas
KIBBUTZ REVIVIM—Clothes. Perfume. Sewing materials from school.
In the end, these were the belongings of a 12-year-old Israeli girl, burned alive in the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, which were buried late Wednesday in the small cemetery of...
Los Angeles Theater Critic, San Diego Jewish World Contributor Cynthia Citron Dies at 89
Cynthia Wynn Taylor Citron, born September 16, 1934, in Boston, died November 11, 2023, in New York, of pneumonia and old age.
For nearly 20 years she was a well known theater critic in Los...
The Vatican is risking its relationship with the Jewish world
Relations between Israel and the Vatican have become tense in recent weeks.
In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem, an ecumenical group of...
At 290,000-strong, ‘March for Israel’ is ‘largest pro-Israel gathering in history’
“We have indeed made history today with over 290,000 of us gathered here on the National Mall. This is the largest pro-Israel gathering in history," William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of...
Initiated by KKL-JNF Mexico: 25 teenage boys and girls who were evacuated from their...
Following the attack on October 7, which led to the evacuation of the Gaza Envelope residents from their homes, they were temporarily accommodated in hotels and guest houses across Israel. These individuals, especially the...
Terry Wunder: Rejoicing in a Jewish Identity
Editor’s Note: This is the 8th chapter in Volume 3 of Editor Emeritus Donald H. Harrison’s 2022 trilogy, “Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5.” All three books as well as others written by Harrison...
The indomitable spirit of volunteerism in wartime
When the war with Hamas broke out last month, 25-year-old Israel Tolchinsky from Queens, New York, had been in Israel for less than six weeks on an educational program aimed at immersing Diaspora Jews...