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IDF distributes nearly 500k hamantaschen for Purim

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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

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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...
Venetian mask. Credit: Nicolette/Pixabay.

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...
A “sofer” (Hebrew for “scribe”) writes the scroll of Esther for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the northern Israeli city of Safed on March 5, 2025. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

On Purim, celebrate Jewish self-defense, not self-loathing

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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...
Children at the Pardes Jewish Day School in Scottsdale, Ariz., play on covered equipment, July 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Reassessing Jewish education amid unprecedented antisemitism

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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...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) addresses an estimated 200,000 at the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Democrats still wobbly on antisemitism

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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...
Ofir Angrest, brother of Matan Angrest, speaks during a finance committee meeting in the Knesset, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Relatives ask Trump admin, Congress to work urgently to free hostages

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in the plenary hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, May 11, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu to sue Ya’alon for unproven claims PM received Qatari money

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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...
A warning sign on the border between Israel and Lebanon, Feb. 12, 2025. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Israel begins border negotiations with Lebanon

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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’

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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,"...