Daily Archives: January 15, 2024

I remember once teasing a friend whose birthday is on Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for Trees. I told him: “Make like a tree and grow up!” Tu B’Shevat, literally the 15th of the Hebrew month...

For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. His parents somehow survived the German Nazi onslaught...

Marc Tracy's New York Times article on Jan. 14 refers to "left-wing" Jews and a "left-wing" Jewish publication, and a "far-right" Israeli government and its "extreme-right ministers." The avian metaphors add up to the culture reporter to...

Huddled on the ground with his machine gun as Hamas drones buzzed overhead, Daniel Manticof said a prayer. Days earlier, the 22-year-old IDF soldier got his first real taste of war in a shootout with...

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Monday revealed more details about an investigation initially publicized last month into Iranian efforts via social media networks to recruit Israeli citizens online to carry out terrorist...

As Israel marked 100 days of captivity for hostages held in Gaza on Sunday, Hamas released a 37-second propaganda video featuring detainees Noa Argamani, Itay Svirsky and Yossi Sharabi. In the undated video, all three hostages identify...

Israeli forces raided An-Najah National University in Nablus (Shechem) in central Samaria overnight Sunday, arresting nine wanted suspects associated with the Hamas student cell who were hiding there. "Many other suspects" were detained for questioning in the...

Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel (sometimes spelled Yehezkel), who plays for Turkish club Antalyaspor, was released from custody on Monday and is expected to leave Turkey immediately, Kan News reported. Jehezkel was suspended from his team...

The National Hockey League has expressed "significant concerns" with the International Ice Hockey Federation's decision last week to ban the Israeli national hockey team from an upcoming competition. In a Jan. 10 announcement, the Zurich-based...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken released statements on Sunday marking the 100th day in captivity of the hostages taken by the Hamas terrorist organization on Oct. 7. "Today, we mark...