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Baby and father. Credit: RitaE/Pixabay.

Some memories live forever …

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Doesn’t it seem like yesterday when your first child was born? To me, it does, and decades later, you recall the excitement—more appropriately called nervousness—that had been building as the “due date” approached. Lamaze birth classes are...

Diverse narratives of an Israel-Iran War” avoiding intellectual conquest

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“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” Guillaume Apollinaire, The New Spirit and the Poets (1917) Israel’s power...
Former President Donald Trump, also the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on July 26, 2024. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Almost three-quarters of Israeli Jews say Trump better for Israel

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A majority of Israeli Jews believe that former U.S. President Donald Trump would serve the Jewish state's interest better than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, according to a survey published on Monday. The poll, conducted by...
Religious soldiers attend their swearing-in ceremony as they join the Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion (previously called the Nahal Haredi Battalion) at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on May 26, 2012. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

IDF launches first ultra-Orthodox combat brigade

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The formation of a new ultra-Orthodox infantry brigade is advancing despite tensions surrounding the haredi military service exemption bill and ongoing demonstrations by ultra-Orthodox protesters at the Jerusalem recruitment office. The first wave of combat...
A Judaica store in Jerusalem's Old City, Dec. 24, 2016. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.

Study: US Jews bought 134% more Israeli Judaica since Oct. 7

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American Jews have increased their purchases of Israeli-made Judaica by 134% since the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War, according to a study by Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) business management students. Led by...
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani. Source: Avi Kaner/X.

Report: Iran executes Jewish man for fatal stabbing

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Authorities in Iran on Monday executed a Jewish man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, who had been sentenced to death for murder, Iranian media reported. “The sentence of retribution was executed this morning,” said Hamidreza Karimi, the prosecutor...
Campaign signs

Whoever wins the US election, here’s what Israel can expect

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Tuesday’s presidential election in the United States comes as Israel is engaged in a war against Iran and its proxies in Gaza and Lebanon. While the Biden administration has been admirably supportive of Israel...

Freed Israeli hostage shares photo from Gaza captivity

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"Sitting there in a Gaza tunnel, captured on camera, pleading to return home"—with these words, Agam Goldstein-Almog, a survivor of Hamas captivity, opened her poignant post shared on Sunday, nearly a year after her release. Goldstein-Almog,...
Palestinian supporters of Hamas protest against the U.S. Middle East peace plan front of the main headquarters the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City on Feb. 20, 2020. Photo by Ali Ahmed/ Flash90.

Israel cancels agreement recognizing UNRWA

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Israel has terminated the 1967 agreement outlining the terms of its relations with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a week after the Knesset passed legislation banning the organization's operations in the...