Jewish Telegraphic AgencyBY ANDREW LAPIN SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 Mark Dion, mayor of Portland, Maine, votes in support…
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Portland, Maine, City Council unanimously votes to divest from companies that do business with Israel
Jewish Telegraphic AgencyBY ANDREW LAPIN SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 Mark Dion, mayor of Portland, Maine, votes in support of a city council resolution to divest fromcompanies doing business with Israel, Sept. 4, 2024. The resolution passed unanimously over theobjections of the local Jewish federation.The city council of Portland, Maine voted unanimously Wednesday evening to divest from companiesthat do […]
ARCHAEOLOGYRESEARCH SHOWS ROMAN SIEGE LIKELY LASTED JUST A FEW WEEKS
ARCHAEOLOGYRESEARCH SHOWS ROMAN SIEGE LIKELY LASTED JUST A FEW WEEKSHTTPS://WWW.TIMESOFISRAEL.COM/MASADA-LEGEND-UPENDED-THE-ROMANS-CAME-SAW-AND-CONQUERED-QUICKLY-AND-BRUTALLY/6 SEPTEMBER 2024 Masada legend upended: ‘The Romans came, saw and conquered, quickly and brutally’The costly Roman operation was likely undertaken only after Masada-based Jewish forces raided nearby EinGedi and disrupted production of balsam, a precious commodity, TAU prof saysBy GAVRIEL FISKE The main details of the famous […]
Hope
Lisa Tremback Hope hangs in the air,it’s a big, blue helium balloonrising up to the home of God.Hope is such a precious thing,often mistaken to be only inlofty prayers, but now,it is in the political realms,way up in to the utopian ionosphere wheredreams are born.Now there are wishful visions that make us sniff that new car […]
Remembering the Call
Remembering the CallTodd Greenberg With dignity and graceI enter the templeReady to hear the callWhen it stepped backThe Ein Sof offered meThe ability toRemember the call –Self-How will I knowGod-You’ll know it because while youDid forget when you cameThe journey forward to theLight IS remembering theCall
Bringing Israel’s story to American Jewish day camps
COURTESY/LEONARD PETLAKH“A rabbinic colleague recently shared an insightful observation: ‘I was raised with a deeplove for Israel, but I’ve come to realize that my child’s connection will likely be moreabout loving Israelis,’” writes Leonard Petlakh, CEO of the Kings Bay Y and JCCBrooklyn in New York City, in an opinion piece for eJewishPhilanthropy. An impactful encounter: “This summer, we […]
US Jewish Activist appointed Chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
US Jewish scholar and Human Rights activist Dr. Justinian Rudelson Ben-Adam was appointed Board Chair of theUyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), a leading Muslim organization in Washington DC. The Uyghur MuslimUHRP was nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize by members of the US Congress. As one of the leaders of theUyghur Muslims in exile, […]
As tensions soar in the West Bank, IDF launches new offensive operation
Former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus explained to Jewish Insider that the ‘geographical structure of Samariais such that it dominates all the areas around it and the introduction of certain weapons in those areas would be areal game changer for the State of Israel.’JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGESRuth Marks Eglash August 29, 2024 While most of the […]
Hostage rescued from tunnel in Gaza; Bedouin father of 11 was a security guard on Oct. 7
BY BEN SALESAUGUST 27, 2024 9:21 AMIsraeli troops have rescued an Israeli hostage from southern Gaza, the military announced Tuesday, the eighthcaptive held by Hamas to be brought back alive by Israeli forces since Oct. 7. Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, a BedouinIsraeli and father of 11 from the southern city of Rahat, worked as a security guard […]
Jews and Arabs hoped to fill a truck with aid for Gaza civilians. We ended up filling 300
AUGUST 26, 2024 HAVIVA NER-DAVID The author, at right, and other Standing Together volunteers collect humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza at Ummal-Fahem, a mostly Arab Israeli city in the Haifa district, Aug. 11, 2024. (Faisel Mahagneh) At a recent visit with a Palestinian-Israeli friend in the Lower Galilee, where I live, I invited her […]
JNF-USA and KKL-JNF sign $50 million joint venture torebuild southern Israel
ALEXI J. ROSENFELD/GETTY IMAGESNearly a year since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, efforts to rebuild the Gaza bordercommunities destroyed remain underway, with experts estimating that reconstructioncould take at least half a decade. A recently signed $50 million joint venture of theJewish National Fund-USA and Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund will aidin rehabilitation on a “project-by-project […]