Monthly Archives: December 2024
First military rabbi killed in combat since Yom Kippur War
Hearing that Rabbi Avi Goldberg was killed shook me up a bit more than usual, though I did not know him. Somehow, it’s different when you share the same last name, even if we’re...
IDF: Officer believed to be alive in Gaza was killed on Oct. 7
An Israeli soldier previously believed to be among the living hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and his body taken by the terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces...
Israel has 20,000 traumatized troops and not enough rehab staff
Israel’s ongoing war has produced about 20,000 soldiers and security forces personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder and a shortage of social workers to treat them, a defense official said on Sunday.
Channel 12 revealed the data in an...
‘I believe in the justice system,’ Biden says, as he pardons his son Hunter
U.S. President Joe Biden stated on Sunday night that he hopes Americans will understand why he, as "a father and a president," decided to pardon his son Hunter Biden.
"Today, I signed a pardon for...
Thousands of Chabad rabbis pose for ‘massive display of Jewish pride’
The thousands of Chabad rabbis who posed for a group photograph on Sunday during the international conference of shluchim ("emissaries") in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., created an image that "is not only a...
Trump names Boulos as senior Arab, Middle East adviser
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stated on Sunday morning that Massad Boulos, a Lebanese-born billionaire whose son Michael is married to Trump's daughter Tiffany, will be his senior adviser on Arab and Middle East affairs.
"Massad...