‘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...
Biblical prophecy unfolds as two brothers reunite
The months leading up to Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing war were characterized by bitter internal conflict that challenged the image of Israel's internal stability: Reservists threatened to refuse orders, high-tech heroes...
100 Jewish young men and women make ‘aliyah’ to enlist in IDF
Some 100 young Jewish men and women from around the world have decided to make aliyah and enlist in the Israel Defense Forces as Israel wages war against the Hamas terrorist organization.
In a month, they will...
Israeli troops hold mezuzah-hanging ceremony in Gaza City
IDF troops held a mezuzah-hanging ceremony in Gaza City, Israel National News reported on Monday.
Givati Infantry Brigade Rabbi Daniel Kind led the ceremony, which was attended by soldiers and commanders in the Strip as part of the...
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...