Monthly Archives: February 2024

Times have changed. Conservative Judaism no longer sees intermarriage as a broad "threat" to Jewish survival, and the movement's rabbis want to engage interfaith couples in "meaningful ritual ways" in synagogues and homes. But...

The Florida Department of Education has distributed $25 million in security funding—of $43 million allocated by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis—to more than 130 Jewish day schools and preschools across the state, the governor’s office announced earlier...

The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim judgment on the South African government’s “genocide” charge against Israel. Even a political body appointed by the U.N. General Assembly whose members are mainly non-democratic...

HAMM: “What’s happening, what’s happening? CLOV: “Something is taking its course.” Samuel Beckett, Endgame Abstract: Though seemingly paradoxical, even chaos can exhibit a determinable order or “course.” Understood in terms of Israel’s survival in the chaotic Middle...

Qatar has received an "initial positive confirmation" from the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza in response to its most recent hostages-for-ceasefire proposal, Doha's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday night, according to Al Jazeera. "Israel agreed to...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin addressed the media on Thursday in his first press conference following his initially undisclosed medical incapacitation earlier this month. Alternating between questions about his personal health and the widening crisis in...

As Hamas officials headed to Cairo on Thursday for negotiations on a supposedly imminent hostage deal, the families of some of the captives urged the Israeli government not to give in to the terrorists’...

Ministers-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz and Gadi Eizenkot, who both serve in the War Cabinet, proposed that Israel limit the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. They made the suggestion during closed-door meetings in recent...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a visiting delegation of United Nations ambassadors on Wednesday that "UNRWA is totally infiltrated with Hamas." Furthermore, the premier called to replace the U.N. agency because it intergenerationally perpetuates...

The Tel Aviv District Court instructed Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot on Wednesday to transfer Roman Abramovich's 8 million-shekel ($2.2 million) donation to ZAKA, a volunteer search and rescue organization. The Russian-Israeli billionaire made the charitable contribution to...