When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take office as U.S. president and vice president on Wednesday, they will be making history in all sorts of ways — including Jewish history.
The noted Modern Orthodox rabbi, author and communal leader had just lost his wife to COVID-19 a month earlier.
An Israeli coalition, including the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israeli Holocaust survivor organizations and the Knesset\’s pensioner affairs minister, is calling on the Claims Conference to give Israel a larger share of Holocaust restitution funds and more control over distribution decisions.
Despite renewed international pressure on Israel and Syria to restart peace talks, people are not very excited by the prospects.
Israel\’s Finance Ministry is proposing substantial cuts to Ethiopian immigration next year.
As the people of northern Israel finally return to their homes, they\’re going back to more than empty streets, freshly dug gravesites and a beefed-up military presence. They\’re also coming home to a radically altered physical landscape.
With the fighting along Israel\’s northern border showing no sign of letting up, Israel\’s most popular summer tourist region has been turned into a battle zone. Instead of the sounds of kids splashing in swimming pools and canyons, there is a constant booming of artillery shelling and tank fire. Instead of birds quietly hovering in the skies over the Hula Nature Reserve, attack helicopters and fighter jets streak across the sky headed north, into Lebanon.
Years of Kassam rocket fire at Sderot have shattered the sense of normalcy in this desert town. The fire has become so intense in recent weeks — often three or four rockets a day — that daily life here has come to a virtual standstill.
A variety of officials from nonprofits operating in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip discussed the challenges of operating in Hamas-run territory at a conference last week on nonprofits, human rights and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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