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(JTA) — President Joe Biden said he wants Israel’s strike on Iran to be “the end” of direct fighting between the two countries, as Iran said it had the right to respond to the attack but did not vow to do so. Israel said that it had concluded its strikes against Iran and warned Iran against beginning what it called a “new round.” The Israeli attack on Saturday came in response to Iran firing more than 180 missiles at Israel on Oct. 1 and was supported by the Biden administration. But American officials had pressed Israel to avoid bombing nuc...
(JNS) — The United States considers the implementation of the 18-year-old U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 to be the only way to end the war between Israel and the Hezbollah terror organization, Vedant Patel, the principal deputy U.S. State Department spokesman, said at the Foggy Bottom press briefing on Tuesday. “I know that there’s been a lot of interest in 1701 over the past couple of days and perhaps a little bit of misunderstanding in how—or misinterpretation in how it’s being discussed,” Patel said. “So let me just be unequivocally...
(JNS) — A survivor of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, Nova music festival massacre, Shirel Golan, took her own life on Oct. 20, her 22nd birthday. She was found lifeless in the yard of her home in Moshav Porat in central Israel. The exact cause of death was not made public. She was set to have visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron with her family. According to family members, despite suffering from post-trauma, the state failed to provide Shirel with mental health services. “She said she received no assis...
(JTA) — Speaking at a campaign rally in Georgia on Monday night, Donald Trump said the Kamala Harris campaign was painting him and his supporters as Nazis, a charge he rejected forcefully. “I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,” Trump said to cheers. The comments, which come a week before Election Day, represent an unusual statement by a presidential candidate. They also represent the latest fallout since Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, last week said in on-the-record interviews that Trump had expressed admiration for Hitler...
(JNS) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, wrote to her 15 million social media followers on Sunday night that the Jewish state has to act quickly to allow more aid into the Gaza Strip. “The U.N. reports that no food has entered northern Gaza in nearly two weeks,” Harris wrote. “Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected.” The vice president...
(JTA) — When Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi fled Vienna in 1938, a month after the Nazi annexation of Austria, they left behind a collection of artwork, which they and their heirs spent decades trying to retrieve. On Wednesday in New Orleans, FBI agents presented the couple’s grandchildren with one of the looted works: a pastel drawing by French impressionist Claude Monet. “Our grandfather would have been so happy to find out this Monet was being restituted after all his attempts over the years...
(New York Jewish Week) - Shai Davidai, an Israeli assistant professor at Columbia University's business school and outspoken pro-Israel activist, said he has been barred from the school's campus again. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Davidai said his lawyer had been informed that Davidai was barred from campus after he posted videos of himself confronting university officials about anti-Israel protests on Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of Hamas' attack. "The university decided to...
(JTA) - A new campaign ad for Donald Trump pushes back against Kamala Harris' claim that the former president is a "fascist" by featuring a Holocaust survivor who says Harris is disgracing his murdered family members with the allegation. "Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my family," says 94-year-old Jerry Wartski, an Auschwitz survivor and retired New York City real estate investor in the ad released last Friday. "I know more about Hitler...
(JNS) — The elimination of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s top military-terrorist and political chief and the architect of the Oct. 7 invasion marks a major turning point in the battle to degrade the Iranian-backed jihadist network surrounding Israel. IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari explained on Thursday that Sinwar had been attempting to flee from house to house, moving between structures in Rafah. Hagari noted that Sinwar “was in flight,” and at one point, after the entourage protecting him had been fired upon by the IDF and split up, Sinwar...
(JNS) — Israeli airstrikes targeted Hezbollah financial sites across Lebanon overnight Sunday, including in Beirut. According to the Israel Defense Forces, dozens of facilities and sites used by the Iranian proxy to fund its terrorist activities against the Jewish state were attacked. “These funds, which Hezbollah used for terror activities, were stored by the Al-Qard al-Hassan Association, which directly funds Hezbollah’s terror activities, including the purchase of weapons and payments to operatives in Hezbollah’s military wing,” the IDF s...
(JNS) — As the three-day Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exhibition wound down on Oct. 16 in Washington, word spread among Israeli defense companies that Emmanuel Macron, the French president, intended to ban them from the upcoming Euronaval defense fair outside Paris. A spokesman for a major Israeli defense company told JNS on Wednesday at the Washington event that France’s decision to bar Israeli companies “is not surprising,” referring further questions to the Israeli Defense Ministry. A ministry representative at th...
IDF base’s dining hall reopens a week after deadly Hezbollah strike (JNS) — The dining hall of the Israel Defense Forces training base, has been repaired and reopened one week after a deadly drone attack by Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah. According to the Israeli Defense Ministry, restoration work was completed on the eve of the Sukkot holiday. The drone strike on Oct. 13 killed four soldiers and wounded dozens more at the Golani Brigade training base, located near Binyamina in northern Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tour...
(JTA) - As tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have shot up to new highs, Israeli soldiers anticipating being deployed to the north are increasingly turning for help to the civilian donation efforts that have kept them stocked in Gaza. Adi Vaxman, who heads the U.S.-based donation effort called Operation Israel, fields requests from individual soldiers and says demand has spiked in tandem with security developments involving Hezbollah. "With the situation up north, the demand has tripled in...
The 26th annual Central Florida Jewish Film Festival will delight the senses and stir much thought. Running from Saturday night, Nov. 2 through Monday evening, Nov. 4, six very different films will bring laughter, tears and contemplation. An overriding theme of all six films seems to be choices made and relationships broken or kept. Here is the lineup: Saturday, Nov. 2, 7:45 p.m. at the Orlando Science Center Digital Adventure Center The Performance Laced with beautiful 1930's music, songs, and...
(JTA) — Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the deadliest attack on Israel in its history, was killed in a shootout with Israeli forces, Israeli officials reportedly have said. Kan, Israel’s government-run radio network, quoted senior official sources as saying that DNA testing confirmed that the Hamas chief was one of three terrorists killed in a shootout Thursday, Oct. 17, with Israeli forces in Rafah, the city on the Gaza-Egypt border. Israeli officials would not confirm the report to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The army had earlier said that...
On Sunday, Oct. 13, Jewish Pavilion Senior Services brought together residents, family members, and board members at Village on the Green for a festive Wine and Cheese Party in celebration of Sukkot. Attendees enjoyed a delicious spread of wine, cheese, fruit, white fish, herring, and challah, all while surrounded by beautifully decorated lemons. Jane Edelstein, board chair of Jewish Pavilion Senior Services, welcomed the crowd and spoke about the deeper significance of Sukkot. "Sukkot reminds...
After the cancellation of last year's Men's Night Out due to the Oct. 7 attack, the organizing committee and sponsors decided to go forward with the Eighth annual Men's Night Out, to be held at Congregation Ohev Shalom on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, starting at 5:30 p.m. Organized and presented by Congregation Ohev Shalom, Temple Israel, Congregation of Reform Judaism, Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation, in conjunction with Shalom Orlando, Men's Night Out is a collaborative outreach program and a "community driven" gathering designed to bring...
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — A poll commissioned by a Jewish affiliate of the Democratic Party shows Vice President Kamala Harris garnering 71 percent of the Jewish vote in the seven swing states likely to decide the election. The poll released Wednesday by the Jewish Democratic Council of America and conducted from Sept. 26-Oct. 2 showed Donald Trump getting 26 percent of the vote just four weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election. The states include Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Nevada. The polling by...
(JNS) — An executive at CBS, in an email in August, instructed employees to “not refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel,” The Free Press reported on Thursday. Mark Memmott, the senior director of standards and practices at the news department of the New York-based broadcasting network, acknowledged that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but added this did not mean that CBS should accept this. “Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel’s capital. But its status is disputed...
(JNS) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, wrote to her 15 million social media followers on Sunday night that the Jewish state has to act quickly to allow more aid into the Gaza Strip. “The U.N. reports that no food has entered northern Gaza in nearly two weeks,” Harris wrote. “Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected.” The vice president...
(JTA) — Miriam Adelson has delivered on a pledge she reportedly made at the start of the general election season, donating $100 million to a campaign committee supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to disclosures filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. The money was distributed to Adelson’s super PAC, Preserve America, which she had seeded earlier this year with $5 million, in a series of installments: $25 million a month in July, August and September and an additional $20 million at the end of September. A major fun...
(JTA) — For months, the United States has signaled that Yahya Sinwar was the biggest impediment to a ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war, with the Hamas leader unwilling to consider any scenarios that would require his group to cede control over the Palestinian territory. But does that mean his death, announced on Oct. 17, means the war could soon come to an end? President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris say they think it should. But both Israel and Hamas have signaled that they plan to keep fighting. “Yahya Sinwar, the lea...
(Israel Hayom via JNS) - The IDF spokesperson unveiled new details and footage from the death in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas and the chief architect of the Oct. 7 massacre. In a video, captured by an Israeli drone, shows Sinwar sitting on a couch inside a destroyed building. Upon noticing the drone hovering above him, Sinwar, who had lost a hand from earlier gunfire, throws a piece of wood at the drone in an effort to knock it down. (The video can be...
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — After Canadian tax authorities revoked the charitable status of the Ne’eman Foundation in August, the organization, which distributes funds to various causes in Israel, began instructing prospective donors to contribute through another recently formed Canadian charity. Six weeks later, Canadian officials imposed a one-year suspension on that charity, called the Emunim Fund, according to its listing on the Canada Revenue Agency website. CRA regulators had previously raised concerns about particular Ne’eman Found...
Damage from Iran’s Oct. 1 missile barrage tops $40m (JNS) — The Islamic Republic’s Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack inflicted an estimated 150 million to 200 million shekels ($40 million-$53 million) in damage, according to an initial Israel Tax Authority assessment published on Sunday. Since the attack, approximately 2,500 compensation claims have been submitted to the Israeli government, including some 2,200 instances of damage to buildings and 300 claims of damage to vehicles and their contents. The Jewish state has vowed a significant respo...
