Daily Archives: August 12, 2024
US, European leaders endorse continued hostage negotiations with Hamas
Leaders in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and the United States came together on Monday to call for peace in the Middle East.
The White House released a joint statement from the Western nations advocating for...
White House confident it can help defend Israel against Iran, Kirby says
An Iranian attack on the Jewish state “could be this week,” although U.S. President Joe Biden “is confident that we have the capability available to us to help defend Israel should it come to...
Mentally, past 10 months have ‘taken a huge toll,’ Jewish students say
Warren Weissbluth, a student at Rice University in Houston studying engineering and entrepreneurship, thinks of himself as “very much a fighter in nature.” At an airport in Greece, an Israeli woman, who noticed his...
Judge dismisses murder charge against man accused of killing Samantha Woll
Prosecutors have lost the opportunity to try again in convicting Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 29, following a jury deadlocking last month on two of four charges in the slaying of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll.
Judge Margaret Van Houten sentenced Jackson-Bolanos...
‘Strange turn of events made me do it,’ rabbis say of penning Oct. 7...
One of the images in a mournful poem by the seventh-century rabbi Eleazar ben Kalir, which is a central kinah prayer chanted on the Tisha B’Av fast day, refers to the silenced words of Temple singers.
Giving literary form...
‘So important to teach American Jews what it is to be Israeli,’ Elan Carr...
Just as Israelis unified against a common foe after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, the hundreds of thousands of Israeli Americans stateside have also mobilized in the past 10 months to fight rising Jew-hatred,...
Still teaching their kids to hate Jews
(Moshe Phillips is National Chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel / AFSI, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education group.)
A new study has found that the curriculum used in the Palestinian Authority’s schools is...
Possible advantages of a preemptive strike on Iran
During its impending war with Iran, Israel’s overriding objective should be to keep that jihadist enemy non-nuclear. The best way to meet this objective will be by systematically controlling conflict escalations (“escalation dominance”). In...
The “true” story of the August 12, 1952 massacre in Russia
דער 12טער אויגוסט איז באמת א טרויער טאג אין דער יידישער געשיכטע, אבער ניט מחמת די סיבות, וואס די יעווסעקן און זייערע פארטיידיקער באטאנען. דער 12טער אויגוסט איז א שאנד-טאג אין דער געשיכטע פון...