✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
By Grace Gilson (JTA) — As Israel’s Eurovision contestant Noam Bettan walked the “turquoise carpet” at the annual song competition’s opening ceremony on Sunday in Vienna, this week’s contest was already being eclipsed by controversy over his participation — and … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor To appreciate what Israelis living in our Partnership2Gether region are facing these days, consider the following WhatsApp text sent to me on Wednesday, March 11 at 8:44 p.m. Israel time: We are currently in the … Read More
By Andrew Lapin (JTA) — Len Saxe, a researcher at Brandeis University, has been studying the impact of Birthright trips to Israel since the initiative launched in 1999. Last year, he noticed something unusual in the data. At a rate … Read More
By Grace Gilson (JTA) — The remains of the final Israeli hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, have been retrieved and are on their way back to Israel for burial. The announcement by the Israeli military marks a significant milestone for … Read More
By Jackie Hajdenberg (New York Jewish Week) — Israeli film director Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s latest film, “The Sea,” is about a young Palestinian boy from the West Bank who is denied a permit to visit Tel Aviv with his classmates. Longing … Read More
By Deborah Danan (JTA) — Two years after the Oct. 7 massacre, Israelis are moving into kibbutzim in numbers not seen for years, part of a deliberate effort to repopulate and rehabilitate communities devastated in the Hamas-led attack. The push … Read More
By Philissa Cramer (JTA) — Six people were shot to death and at least six others gravely injured in a shooting on a Jerusalem bus stop on Monday morning, in the kind of terror attack that has become rare in … Read More
By Rabbi Matt Derenbacher Guest Columnist At the beginning of August, I had the privilege of traveling to Israel for a rabbinic seminar hosted by Hebrew Union College and the Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism in Tel Aviv. Over several … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Not long ago I read an article in the English-language edition of Haaretz — Israel’s uber-liberal, anti-Netanyahu newspaper — that told how hostages drew on faith to sustain them in captivity. It was a remarkable … Read More
By Ralph Green and Michael Salamon Guest Columnists Several months ago, the two of us had dinner together and discussed how tired we both were of reading Israeli news via traditional Western news and social media sources. Neither of us … Read More