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Protesters in Toronto: ‘We will honor all our martyrs’ after 3 years of Gaza war

By EMMA PAIDRA

(JTA) — TORONTO – Hundreds of protesters marched through Toronto’s downtown core via Yonge Street Saturday afternoon, chanting more loudly as additional people joined the demonstration. “We will honor all our martyrs, all our children, sons and daughters!”...

Hanukkah ‘Forever’ stamp unveiled at Touro Synagogue

By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN

In anticipation of Touro Synagogue’s upcoming 200th anniversary next year, the United States Postal Service  (USPS) selected the New Orleans Reform synagogue to be the venue for its First Day of Issue Dedication...

Newly aired recordings of paramedic Amit Mann’s final hours renew push to let families access Oct. 7 records

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, newly aired recordings of her final calls revealed fresh and harrowing details about her last...

Oct. 7, remembered in Israel and beyond

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog and first lady Michal Herzog opened Wednesday’s commemorations marking three years since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by lighting a memorial candle at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem at 6:29 a.m., the...

‘Remember 7.10.23’: In Israel, Hostage Square bears few remnants of a national crisis – but trauma lingers 

By MICHELE CHABIN

(JTA) — TEL AVIV – In the days following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, the families of the hostages held in Gaza turned the plaza next to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art into what became known...

As The New York Times turns 175, the fight over its Israel coverage heats up again

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — For generations of American Jews, The New York Times has been more than a newspaper.

It has been the hometown paper of the largest Jewish community outside Israel, a daily guide to the city that became...

In its first detailed response to ‘NAZA’ documentary, IDF claims ‘fundamental errors’

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — The IDF on Thursday issued its first detailed response to “NAZA” after viewing the full documentary alleging Israeli forces knowingly killed large numbers of civilians in the Gaza war, accusing the filmmakers of making fundamental errors...

Passengers from the attempted flydubai hijacking land back in Israel

By TOMER ALMAGOR

(JTA) — TEL AVIV – One pilot stabbed another in the cockpit of a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in what may have been an attempt to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Israel probes flydubai incident as terror attack after co-pilot allegedly stabs captain

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – A flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after the co-pilot allegedly repeatedly stabbed the captain in what Israeli authorities are now treating as a terrorist attack, according to...

Stephen Sondheim was Jewish, but was his a ‘Jewish Life’?

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — When Daniel Okrent first proposed writing a biography of Stephen Sondheim for the Yale Jewish Lives series, he had a warning for his publisher.

“I would love to write about Sondheim if you’re interested, but I...