✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
By Andrew Adler Community Editor This past January, Louisville pediatrician and local Hadassah chapter president Michelle Elisburg joined 13 other physicians on a visit to the Galilee Medical Center in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya — a mere six … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Israel hit multiple targets in Yemen on Thursday, escalating what has newly become one of the most active fronts in Israel’s war with Iran and its surrogates. The strikes Thursday, which hit power stations and … Read More
By Uriel Heilman (JTA) — Driving the northernmost spur of Israel’s Road 886, it’s hard not be astonished by just how close Israelis and their Hezbollah foes lived to one another before the war that began 14 months ago. In … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — WASHINGTON — After announcing a ceasefire deal on the Israel-Lebanon border, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sharply different takes on what might happen next in the Gaza Strip. The divide … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Israel’s security cabinet has approved a U.S.-brokered ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, which would end more than a year of conflict with the terror group on Israel’s border with Lebanon. President Biden said in an address … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Nearly one year into the Israel-Hamas war we find ourselves in a kind of Middle East purgatory, consigned to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous stasis – hostages being murdered in Gaza tunnels, pagers and … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — WASHINGTON — As Israel escalates its fight against Hezbollah, Jewish security organizations are on particularly heightened alert ahead of the High Holidays. On Friday, Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, following a barrage of … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah showed no signs of abating in the hours after a group of countries led by the United States and France proposed a ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden warned against “full-scale war” in Israel and Lebanon, sounding a warning as massive exchanges of fire escalated between Israel and Hezbollah. In his final speech … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Consider the following statistic: In 2003, the Northern Israeli city of Acre (better known outside Israel as Akko) could boast only a single bed and breakfast. Twenty years later there were close to 250 B&B’s … Read More