Daily Archives: December 13, 2023
Chanukah memories
As a young boy, I eagerly anticipated Chanukah. While I loved watching the number of candles increase each night and eagerly anticipated my parents’ gifts, my special delight came once my father set up...
How will this Chanukah be remembered?
As much of the world enters Christmas holiday preparation mode, focusing on gift-giving and sharing festive recipes, Israelis are connecting the dots to put this year’s Chanukah festival into context for our time.
Many religious...
US actor Michael Rapaport appears in Israeli satirical show
American-Jewish actor Michael Rapaport arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning to appear in the satirical show Eretz Nehederet.
Since the brutal Hamas attack on southwestern Israel on Oct. 7, Rapaport, who is known for his portrayal...
Aunt of former Hamas hostage: ‘We’d love a Christmas miracle’
Several relatives of U.S. citizens being held hostage in the Gaza Strip who met with U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday subsequently spoke with reporters for a little more than five minutes.
The pool report,...
Jewish TikTok workers reveal antisemitism in workplace, biased content
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, which have sparked surges of antisemitic acts worldwide, Jewish and Israeli employees of TikTok report a lack of support and insights into the biases underlying the platform’s heavily...
Nearly 75% of Palestinians say Hamas was right to attack Israel on Oct. 7
Nearly three in four Palestinians believe that Hamas was right in launching its Oct. 7 cross-border attack, in which terrorists savagely murdered more than 1,200 people in Israel and wounded thousands, according to the...
High Court: State must pay for circumcisions of non-Orthodox converts
Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, ruled on Tuesday that the State of Israel must fund circumcisions for converts who come through the Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism, and...
Herzog: ‘Houthis have crossed a red line in the Red Sea’
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen "have crossed a red line in the Red Sea," Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Wednesday.
"The U.S.-led international activities against the Houthi terror-pirates must be bolstered and strengthened...
Biden meets family members of American Hamas hostages
U.S. President Joe Biden met on Wednesday with family members of U.S. citizens held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, after the family members were not invited to Monday's Chanukah reception at the White House.
Antony...
‘She worried about us more than she did for herself’
“My 18-year-old daughter Tchelet was killed on a Saturday morning during the holiday of Simchat Torah,” Gladys Fishbein told JNS.
On Oct. 7, Fishbein was tending to her ill 94-year-old mother, Sarah, at Kibbutz Be’eri...