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Alan Sakowitz performs magic show for kids in Israel, many of whom have parents fighting in the Israel Defense Forces, Oct. 26-Nov. 7 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Wartime magician’ performs 26 shows in nine days for kids in Israel

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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....
Irwin Cotler. Photo by Dave Gordon.

‘Be on the front lines,’ former Canadian envoy Irwin Cotler advises young Jews

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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...
"I will take the stick of Yosef .. .and I will place it with the stick of Yehuda ... and they shall be one in My hand" (Ezekiel 37:19). Image: Meirav Barlev

Biblical prophecy unfolds as two brothers reunite

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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...
Esther Brown, 18, from Mexico. Credit: Courtesy.

100 Jewish young men and women make ‘aliyah’ to enlist in IDF

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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 soldiers operating in Gaza. Credit: IDF.

Israeli troops hold mezuzah-hanging ceremony in Gaza City

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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...
Friends of Liel and Yanai Hetzroni attend their funeral at Kibbutz Revivim, Nov. 15, 2023. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.

Farewell to Liel, 12-year-old victim of Hamas

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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...
Memorial candle. Credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

Los Angeles Theater Critic, San Diego Jewish World Contributor Cynthia Citron Dies at 89

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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...
Pope Francis presides over Mass on Easter Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Altar of the Chair. Source: YouTube

The Vatican is risking its relationship with the Jewish world

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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...
More than 290,000 people attended the March for Israel rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14, 2023. Photo by Shay Shohat/Flash90. *** Local Caption *** מלחמה חרבות ברזל הפגנה מפגינים הפגנות אמריקה

At 290,000-strong, ‘March for Israel’ is ‘largest pro-Israel gathering in history’

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“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...

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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...