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  A senior US official has told Politico that the Biden administration is concerned Hamas' rocket attack over the weekend has led Israel to accelerate plans for a potential military operation in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza. "The rocket attack confirms their fear, you still have this pocket there that gone unchecked or left […]

The state university of New Jersey is home to 6,400 Jewish undergraduates – the second-highest number in the U.S.

  The world is witnessing a deeply disturbing resurgence of antisemitism on a scale unparalleled since the Nazi atrocities of World War II. Holocaust deniers, once relegated to the fringes of society, are reemerging and propagating falsehoods. While the historical record unequivocally establishes Adolf Hitler's direct, personal orchestration of the Final Solution and the genocide […]

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his War Cabinet approved continuing an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages and achieve the country's other war goals. "The war cabinet unanimously decided that Israel continue the operation in Rafah to exert military pressure on […]

Anyone familiar with Benjamin Netanyahu's interpretation of history should not be surprised by his latest ludicrous comparison between the pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses and 1930s Germany

  US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call Monday during which the American leader demanded clarifications regarding the Israeli upcoming incursion into Rafah amid reports that the IDF had ordered residents in the city to evacuate. The two spoke for about half an hour in what was described as […]

Amid global protests against the Gaza war – some accompanied by denial of Hamas' systematic sexual crimes – Israeli filmmaker Anat Stalinsky created a film documenting sexual violence on October 7, through interviews by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg

While COGAT, the IDF unit in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said international organizations have indicated that there was too much aid entering into northern Gaza, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini insisted that there continue to be long delays at checkpoints for aid deliveries, shootings at convoys and arrests of UN staff

A major concern is that Erdogan's boycott on trade, due to the fighting in Gaza, could spread to other countries if Israel enters Rafah

In the shadow of the October 7 Hamas attack and atrocities in Israel and in Gaza, with the number of living Holocaust survivors ever dwindling, our work as memory-keepers is just beginning

  While Paul Auster was commonly regarded as a New York novelist, more discerning critics would aptly characterize him as a "Brooklynite" writer. "I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn to me," testifies his character, Tom Wood, in the opening of his 2002 novel, "The Brooklyn Follies." Auster became the […]

According to reports in Belgium, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told aides, 'I don't think we can continue to regard Israel as a trading partner' ■ Possible partners for such a move may be Ireland, Luxembourg, and Malta, which have been very critical of Israel since the outbreak of the war

After housing some of the biggest anti-Israel protests on American campuses in recent months, and with several graduation ceremonies at other universities disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, Columbia has decided to only hold school-level ceremonies, away from the main campus

  A new exhibition displaying the personal items of children murdered in the Holocaust opened Sunday at the Supreme Court. The installation, named "Yellow Patch," serves as a heartbreaking memorial to the young lives tragically cut short during the Nazi genocide. The exhibits on display were retained from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in former Czechoslovakia. Established by […]

  Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to identify and record the names of Holocaust victims previously lost in the vast archives of World War II documentation. The renowned memorial and museum houses a staggering 230 million pages of text documents and over 500,000 photographs […]

From sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people to medical experiments and killing of people with special needs: Israeli Prof. Shmuel Reis tells Haaretz how this grim chapter of history should be taught at medical schools everywhere

'The off-campus Jewish community storming the encampment endangered the Jewish students they were attempting to protect,' reads a letter by a Jewish Hillel leader. Other pro-Israel organizations have remained silent on the violence perpetrated against UCLA's pro-Palestinian demonstrators

A flash nature survey noticed dragonflies from Arabia and North Africa in a kibbutz in Israel's Arava Desert. Could climate change be involved?

The average salary for Israeli employees was NIS 14,108 in March 2024.