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Initiated by KKL-JNF Mexico: 25 teenage boys and girls who were evacuated from their...

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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...
Lighting candles for those killed during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel at a Shabbat marketplace in San Diego, part of the 10th annual Shabbat Project, Nov. 3, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Citizens of 100 countries join Shabbat Project, show solidarity with Israel

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Earlier this month, Jews in more than 1,500 cities in 100 countries participated in an event in solidarity with Israel. The gatherings on Nov. 3-4 were supposed to be the 10th anniversary of the International...
Pro-Hamas demonstrators rally in support of the terrorist organization's Oct. 7 mass terror attack that killed over 1,400 Israelis, in New York City, Oct. 9, 2023. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

The day the music died for progressive Jewry

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The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre will be remembered as the day the music died for progressive Jewry. What was will no longer be. Hamas showed for all to see, in many cases live on social...
An Israeli soldier during morning prayers near the border with Lebanon, Oct. 25, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

US Jews supply thousands of tzitzit to Israeli soldiers

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As the Israel Defense Forces prepare to move into Gaza to destroy the Hamas terrorist group, an American rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement has launched a campaign to supply Israeli soldiers with tzitzit,...
In the Novellus restaurant dining room are (from left): Rabbi Chaim Landa, Joe Ancmon, Bob Affholder and Brett Affholder, October 2023. Photo by Bill Motchan.

St. Louis-area restaurant going kosher for a day, proceeds headed for Israel

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A local restaurant will change its entire menu and kosher its kitchen for one day in support of Israel. Novellus, at 201 N. Main St. in St. Charles, a suburb of St. Louis, announced...
New immigrants to Israel hold a placard at Ben-Gurion International Airport reading, “The People of Israel Live,” Oct. 19, 2023. Photo by Yonit Schiller.

New ‘olim’ show up to support their new homeland in time of war

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As rockets from Gaza continue to rain down across Israel following the carnage of the Hamas attack on the western Negev that began on Oct. 7, and foreign nations including the United States consider...
Gelato sold in Las Ramblas market in Barcelona, Spain. Photo by Esther Rubyan/Flash90.

Kosher gelato flavor a winner at competition semifinals

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A savory kosher gelato flavor has cause to rejoice—in line with its name that plays off the Hebrew folk song “Hava Nagila.” Noi Due Gelato’s “Halva Nagila” was named best flavor at the North American semifinals of...
Community members unveil a plaque at the reopening of the Ohel Ezster synagogue in Budapest, Sept. 5, 2023. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungary’s Jewish renaissance

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Another Budapest synagogue rose from the ashes last week thanks to Chabad of Hungary. It was the tenth to do so, marking a Hungarian Jewish renaissance that began some 10 years ago, breathing new...
A synagogue in Siena, Italy. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

More than 100 Italian sites take part in European Day of Jewish Culture

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Italy participated in the 24th annual European Day of Jewish Culture at 101 sites across 16 regions, with Florence serving as the lead city. This year’s event, held on Sept. 9-10, was dedicated to...
Map of Jewish Palestine with the growth of Jewish agricultural, commercial and industrial activity in the region. Berlin, 1923. Credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Exhibit spans 16th-century Jewish maternal guilt-trip to modern Hebraists beating up Yiddishists

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Not only does Yiddish date back many centuries, but an exhibit in New York contains a 16th-century Yiddish example of a Jewish mother trying to guilt trip her son into communicating with her more...