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Conservative Judaism relaunches Israel gap-year program with Tel Aviv internships
JTA — The Conservative movement is relaunching its Israel gap-year program in 2026, after shuttering operations completely over a year and a half ago. The four-decade-old Nativ program was put on hiatus in 2024 after it failed to recruit enough...

Under Fire in Tel Aviv: A Civilian’s View of Israel’s 12-Day War
“See you tomorrow—unless war breaks out,” I joked to an Israeli friend as we left a Tel Aviv café the day after I arrived. Less than five hours later, at around 3 a.m. Israel Standard Time on July 13, air raid sirens ripped me from my sleep and...

RELIGION HEADLINES FRI 7-11-25
Audio By Carbonatix (SRN NEWS ) Battles over the place of religion in the public schools are multiplying. Some states are passing laws to add chaplains and Bible lessons to classrooms, to set aside prayer time in the school day and to expand...

Israel is taking its old Gaza model abroad
During an Oval Office meeting on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had nominated President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize and praised him for “forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after...

Israel officials concerned Iran’s enriched uranium may have survived US strikes
Satellite image shows construction on a new underground facility (the small cluster of buildings lower down in the image) just south of Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, before the Natanz facility was hit by U.S. airstrikes, June 15, 2025. (Photo: Maxar...
Jewish students staying strong
Since Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitism and intimidation have been rife on campuses, including the University of British Columbia, where there have been numerous incidents of graffiti and personal attacks on the university’s president, among others....

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 82 Palestinians in past day — TV
DUBAI, July 11. /TASS/. At least 82 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others were injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past day, Qatari television channel Al Jazeera reported, citing the Palestinian enclave’s Health...

Israeli military expands Arabic and Farsi intelligence programs
The Israeli military has decided to boost its language intelligence programs as a key lesson of the ongoing war with the Iranian regime and its regional terrorist proxies Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. While modern warfare has become highly...

Israel and EU said to reach agreement allowing more aid into Gaza as ceasefire negotiations continue
Humanitarian aid is distributed to Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, June 26, 2025. (Photo: Khalil Kahlout/Flash90) Israel and the European Union reached an agreement to significantly increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Bloomberg...
Israeli premier, UN envoy express condolences for Texas fatalities
Two days after Israeli President Isaac Herzog issued a statement mourning the loss of life due to flash floods in Texas, other Israeli officials offered their condolences. “My wife, Sara, and I and all of Israel are praying for the Great State of...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iran threatens her life after its war with Israel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's security services have threatened the life of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after her native country's war with Israel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and activists said Friday. Mohammadi said...
Israel to launch Save the Child’s Heart initiative in Juba
By Anak Dut The Israeli Embassy in Juba is set to launch another round of “Save the Child’s Heart” initiative aimed at providing treatment for children with heart problems in South Sudan. This treatment program will be conducted in both South...

Study: Global Jewish population still below pre-Holocaust level
Israelis walking along Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on January 8, 2025. (Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) According to a recent study, the global Jewish population has yet to return to its pre-Holocaust level. The study, conducted by Pew Research,...

Netanyahu attends memorial for slain Israeli embassy workers before departing Washington
A display at a memorial ceremony at the Israel Embassy in Washington, D.C., to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim (Photo: The Prime Minister's spokesperson) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara participated in a...

One in four Americans believe recent attacks on Jews were ‘understandable,’ ADL survey finds
(JTA) — While the majority of Americans oppose antisemitism, a quarter believe that the recent string of attacks on Jews in the United States were “understandable,” according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday. The...

Overcoming Antisemitism By Investing In Your Jewishness
Since October 7, 2023, and especially over the past year, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with all the antisemitism, protesting, and anti-Jewish propaganda that fills my inbox, TV, and social media feeds. It seems like the world has gone mad,...

Israel and the covenant
As I was saying…as my boss, for some years now, of blessed memories, was wont to say—for how much longer will the world have to wait to see peace restored to the Middle East. Mr. Donald Trump believes after his meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the...

FO° Talks: Israel Strikes Iran. Tehran Hits Back. What Now?
In this episode of FO° Talks, Fair Observer Founder Atul Singh and former Israeli Government Official Josef Olmert unpack the June 13 Israeli strike on Iran. The operation had been in the works for years and showcased what Olmert called an...

U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies, “Militarized Response” to Protests
Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The wide-ranging conversation touched on immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to...

Jewish community reacts after Portland man convicted for racially motivated vandalism
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A jury has found a man guilty of 11 charges in a string of hate crimes at several places of worship. One of those places was the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Northwest Portland, where the senior rabbi tells FOX 12...