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Marina Delfos is on a mission. Working with a group of people who come to Jamaica each year through Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions and a handful of local volunteers, she is helping to take inventory of the area's Jewish gravestones, trying to make sense of the 360-year-old and oft-forgotten Jamaican Jewish past. This past March, Delfos struck stone while she was on the Way Back When (Black River Heritage Tour) trip with Allison Morris. "I knew there had to be a cemetery in [the town of] Black...
SDEROT, Israel (JTA)—In the past week, Israel has endured a thousand rockets. Yet the only Israeli death so far from Hamas’ attacks was a civilian killed Tuesday by mortar fire while visiting soldiers near the Erez border crossing into Gaza.In many ways, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge—its third Gaza operation in six years—is much like previous Israeli campaigns in the territory. Israel has used airstrikes to exact a toll on Hamas and has massed troops on the Gaza border, threatening a ground invasion. So far, Israel has conducted nearly 1,...
Australia's Sydney Harbor is up in flames. Large letters superimposed on the scene ask, "How would they react?" That image and many others like it have been distributed by an Israeli student initiative called "Israel Under Fire," which now boasts more than 57,000 followers on its Facebook page. While rocket attacks continue from Gaza after Palestinian terrorists' rejection of a cease-fire brokered by Egypt and accepted by Israel, more than 400 student volunteers are working together from a compu...
FAA suspends U.S. airlines’ flights to Israel NEW YORK (JTA)—The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited all U.S. airlines from flying to Israel for at least 24 hours. All three U.S. carriers with nonstop flights to Israel—United, U.S. Airways and Delta Airlines—canceled their flights to Tel Aviv on Tuesday. El Al, which is not bound by the FAA order issued in the early afternoon Tuesday, said it plans to continue to maintain its normal schedule of up to five daily nonstop flights to Tel Aviv from the United States. The FAA order came after...
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The air war has become a ground war. The Israeli population, always on edge, has become a nation in mourning. And a military operation that nearly ended after eight days has become a bloody invasion of Gaza that could last weeks and has Israeli officials divided over how it ought to end. With the death toll rising on both sides—more than 600 Palestinians and 30 Israelis were reported killed as of Tuesday—some Israeli leaders are calling for a cease-fire. But others argue that the only way to address the Hamas threat is to reocc...
With the launch of the Israeli army's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, much of the public's attention has appropriately focused on Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group behind the June 12 abduction and murder of three Jewish teens and more recently the escalation of rocket fire on Israel. But the threats the Jewish state faces from Gaza may not be as clear-cut as they seem. While Hamas is still extremely deadly, it has seen a weakening of its grip on the coastal enclave over the past few...
(JTA)- Israel and Hamas are fighting their third major conflict in six years, and while some things have stayed the same, the battle lines have also shifted in a few notable ways. Here are eight things you need to know about the current conflagration: • Iron Dome has been a game changer: The U.S.-funded Israeli anti-missile system was operational during the last conflagration in November 2012, but its remarkable success rate this go-around has reduced Gaza's missiles to more of an irritant t...
