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Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot

From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual — with a little bit of extra protection

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Mati Wagner

Haifa court rules divorce refusal is a crime, sentences husband to 18 months in prison

Man is 2nd to be sentenced to prison for refusing to give his wife a ‘get,’ after trapping her in marriage since 2004; rabbinic courts in US,...

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New top Sephardic rabbi backs rulings that soldiers in combat must eat on Yom Kippur

Seeking to allay concerns of ultra-Orthodox troops in Gaza, David Yosef notes existing protocols barring them from fasting, says when in doubt they...

11.10.2024 80

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On anniversary of 1970 Black September hijacking, six survivors on life after captivity

As Hamas continues to hold 97 hostages kidnapped on October 7, marking the September 6 PFLP terror group’s takeover of four planes paints new wounds...

07.09.2024 50

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A yeshiva that preps Haredi men for IDF service mourns first graduate to fall in battle

As Israeli society debates mandatory ultra-Orthodox enlistment amid war, Staff Sgt. Bezalel Kovacs’s life and death present a new view of what it...

12.06.2024 30

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An ideological minority of parents of hostages held by Hamas oppose negotiations

Tikva Forum is a right-wing alternative to the main hostage advocacy group. Its members, primarily pro-government religious Zionists, say they are...

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Shocked by Oct. 7 failures, Israelis rush to buy guns, with government encouragement

In the months since the Hamas massacre, there were 6 times as many license requests for handguns as in all of 2022, causing some to worry that...

30.12.2023 40

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The world’s foremost rabbinic authority on declaring death grapples with Oct. 7 horrors

Drafted back into the army following the Hamas massacre, Rabbi Yaakov Ruzah says the terrorists’ atrocities have left even Judaism’s...

27.12.2023 50

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Return to Gush Katif: Determined movement emerges to resettle Israelis in Gaza

As some supporters cite ideology and others defense needs, a coalition forms after Hamas’s October 7 massacre with the goal of renewing Jewish...

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