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Rescuing man’s best friend from war
Adam Benett and his friend Yoav Ben David have rescued over 600 animals, including some 430 dogs, 200 cats, birds, fish and guinea pigs, in southern Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror massacre.
“On Oct. 10,...
Israeli hostage believed to have given birth in captivity
One of the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has likely given birth in captivity, Israel announced Monday night.
Officials said the woman was nine months pregnant when she was abducted...
The indomitable spirit of volunteerism in wartime
When the war with Hamas broke out last month, 25-year-old Israel Tolchinsky from Queens, New York, had been in Israel for less than six weeks on an educational program aimed at immersing Diaspora Jews...
Foreign activists in Judea and Samaria delegitimize Israel during wartime
Foreign radical activists have been openly agitating against Israel and its defense forces in Judea and Samaria even as the country is embroiled in a war.
Activists from the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement, some of...
What price ceasefire?
The desirability of a ceasefire in the current war between Israel and Hamas—especially if it involves the release of Israeli hostages—is seemingly obvious and self-evident to everyone. Except for us.
Of course, we want, we...
Of All the Gall: Israel is Winning
You might think that the deaths of an uncertain number of Palestinian civilians – reported to be up to 10,000 – might account for the fury that infuses pro-Arab protests around the world. That...
Citizens of 100 countries join Shabbat Project, show solidarity with Israel
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...
Nova festival organizers insist they will ‘keep dancing’
During a memorial ceremony for the hundreds of people murdered by Hamas at the Supernova Sukkot Music Festival near Kibbutz Re'im on Oct. 7, organizers vowed to "keep dancing."
"We went through something that we...
The Hidden Passion and Joy of Psalms Described by Two Rabbis
Duets on Psalms: Drawing New Meaning From Ancient Words, Jack Riemer and Elie Spitz, Ben Yehuda Press, Teaneck, NJ, ©2023, ISBN 978-1-953829-62-7, p. 222, plus endnotes, $24.95.
There is a story told of a southern...
Gantz: This isn’t the time to replace Netanyahu
Benny Gantz, currently serving as part of Israel's War Cabinet, has said in private conversations that the idea of replacing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the middle of the war is "nothing less than...