1+ hour ago  (573+ words) As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into a newsmaking tour of Israel. Was I really ready to go to Israel to witness, report and write…...

2+ hour ago  (369+ words) To opponents of the president, he erred in launching an attack on Iran at a time when Iran did not pose an imminent threat. Under this analysis, President Trump should not have acted unless the Iranian regime had actually initiated…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago  (382+ words) This is not a postwar assessment. It is a snapshot " taken in the uneasy pause of a tenuous ceasefire that may not hold by the time this is read. The guns are quieter, but not silent. Both sides are resting,…...

21+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1109+ words) Colorectal cancer rates are climbing among young people and Ashkenazi Jews. First, the good news. Among Americans under 50, the overall cancer mortality has plummeted by 44% over the last quarter-century. Better diagnostic tools, along with a sharp drop in smoking, helps…...

21+ hour, 2+ min ago  (820+ words) Despite security challenges and limited flights, hundreds have made aliyah in 2026. Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite is true. "My worry was, how…...

21+ hour, 30+ min ago  (562+ words) Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a "bias toward centering Israeli and Zionist voices'and "narrowing its vision to a Zionist approach to Jewish culture....

21+ hour, 50+ min ago  (328+ words) Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Israel is turning 78 on April 21 and 22, or 5 lyar 5786, according to the Hebrew calendar. That's the date of Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. Jewish communities across the diaspora celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut with special events. These are some local…...

21+ hour, 44+ min ago  (395+ words) Operation Roaring Lion" against Iranian nuclear sites fulfilled the Jewish state's promise to prevent a second Holocaust, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday night. In the Holocaust, the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg wrote: "We were an extinct people…...

23+ hour, 23+ min ago  (401+ words) A triumphant ceasefire this is not. It was, essentially, a declaration that the two sides would talk about it. Unlike in the last ceasefire that halted an Israel-related conflict " the one in Gaza in the fall " nothing was really accomplished....

23+ hour, 2+ min ago  (432+ words) Two years ago, Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, was rolling around, and members of the Men's Club and Ritual Committee at Congregation Tifereth Israel realized there wasn't a big celebration in the area. Tifereth Israel is in Bensalem, Lower Bucks…...