Daily Archives: November 17, 2023
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...
‘LA Times,’ accused of Jew-hatred in past, calls for ceasefire in editorial
Although it stated that "no one should harbor illusions about Hamas," the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times wrote on Nov. 16 that "it has become impossible to distinguish between Israel’s decidedly non-surgical operation against Hamas...
In Gaza, IDF’s next step could be south
The Israel Defense Forces’s next step in its operations may be to go south from its current focal point of Gaza City and northern Gaza, where it completed its operations ensuring that the Hamas...
Parents urge universities to do more to protect their children on campus
A Jewish student’s nose broken at Tulane University in New Orleans. In Manhattan, Jewish students resorted to hiding in a Cooper Union library as anti-Israel protesters pounded on the door, and in New York state, Cornell University’s kosher...
IDF recovers body of second Israeli hostage near Shifa Hospital in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday that it recovered the body of Cpl. Noa Marciano from the Gaza Strip, three days after confirming she was killed by Hamas in captivity.
IDF troops found the body...
Yeshivah high schools ask college recruiters to prove campuses are safe
Universities have allowed a “toxic ideology to fester” that “manifests as aggressive and overt antisemitism,” more than 30 heads of yeshivah high schools wrote in a letter earlier this month. The leaders added that “sometimes even...
Three in four Palestinians support Hamas’s massacre
Slightly more than three in four Palestinians have a positive view of Hamas in the wake of its Oct. 7 slaughter in Israel, according to a survey by the Arab World for Research and Development...
Israeli education minister plans ‘Yad Vashem-like’ Oct. 7 memorial
Six weeks after the barbarous Hamas assault on Israeli communities and the outbreak of the war, Education Minister Yoav Kisch announced plans to build an official heritage center, complete with a museum, memorial and...