Monthly Archives: March 2025
IDF distributes nearly 500k hamantaschen for Purim
The Israel Defense Forces' Military Rabbinate distributed almost half a million hamantaschen, or oznei Haman ("Haman's ears") cookies, the army said ahead of the holiday of Purim, which starts Thursday night.
Approximately 460,000 hamantaschen in the flavors of...
‘He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,’ Trump says of Schumer
Micheál Martin, the Irish Taoiseach, or prime minister, has been among the Jewish state's most vocal critics, including asking the principal judicial body of the United Nations to broaden its definition of "genocide" in December to...
Behind the mask
Purim is a serious festival. Yet many people consider it merely a children’s masquerade party. The very notion of dressing up, wearing masks and creative costumes to disguise ourselves is the subject of much...
On Purim, celebrate Jewish self-defense, not self-loathing
This is not the first time in history in which some Jews have internalized the hate that has been directed at them. Those who do so have embraced beliefs that seek to undermine both...
Reassessing Jewish education amid unprecedented antisemitism
The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks once wrote: “To defend a country, you need an army. But to defend a civilization, you need schools.”
In an era of skyrocketing antisemitism, these words resonate more powerfully...
Democrats still wobbly on antisemitism
As the Trump administration takes an aggressive stand against antisemitism by withdrawing $400 million in grants from Columbia University, seeking to deport a pro-Hamas leader of campus protests at Columbia in the United States...
Relatives ask Trump admin, Congress to work urgently to free hostages
A week after a group of freed Israeli hostages met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, a delegation of relatives of hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza came to...
Netanyahu to sue Ya’alon for unproven claims PM received Qatari money
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would sue Moshe Ya'alon, who served both as defense minister and IDF chief of staff, after he claimed the premier received millions from Qatar.
In an...
Israel begins border negotiations with Lebanon
Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday initiated negotiations towards settling the border between the two countries.
Representatives of the Israel Defense Forces, the United States, France and Lebanon agreed during a meeting in Naqoura in Southern...
‘Over 2,000 attempted terror attacks in past year’
The Israel Defense Forces' "Operation Iron Wall," an extensive and ongoing counterterrorism effort in Judea and Samaria launched on Jan. 21, is seeing the Israeli military take a new, decisive and sustained approach.
"Iron Wall,"...