2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1126+ words) TEL AVIV " Dr. Olivia Keller-Baruch had long dreamed of working as a doctor in Israel. Originally from Montreal, she knew making the move would require some adjustments. Her Hebrew skills needed work, she was aware physician salaries in Israel differ…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (766+ words) In one classroom, students create a podcast featuring an "interview" with the prophet Elijah. In another, instructors teach Jewish prayers using AI-created songs with rhyming lyrics. Elsewhere, Jewish studies classes are automatically recorded and translated into multiple languages for a…...

3+ hour, 4+ min ago   (174+ words) On Feb. 3, Amy Jane Byer Barinbaum, M.D., of Bethesda, Maryland. Loving daughter of the late Abner and Ruth Solomon Byer. Beloved wife of the late Marc A. Barinbaum. Devoted mother of Ryan J. and the late Adam M. Barinbaum. Dear sister of Katherine (Joseph)…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago   (401+ words) Israel is still living inside the shadow of Oct. 7 " the deadliest day in its modern history. Yet more than two years later, the full causes of that catastrophe remain unresolved. Not because the questions are unknowable, but because the one…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (615+ words) Authoritarian systems depend on secrecy, discipline and the careful management of appearances. That is why the allegations surrounding Zhang Youxia, China's senior-most uniformed officer and a longtime confidant of Chinese President Xi Jinping, have drawn such intense attention. Corruption scandals…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (360+ words) The reports emerging from Iran are no longer ambiguous, disputed or deniable. According to multiple news sources, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered security forces to crush nationwide protests using "any means necessary," issuing what witnesses describe as explicit shoot-to-kill…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago   (626+ words) American universities insist " often with genuine conviction " that foreign funding does not buy influence. Academic freedom is sacrosanct, administrators say; donors do not shape values, enforcement or outcomes. But for Jewish students watching antisemitism metastasize across elite campuses, those assurances…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago   (800+ words) A proposal by officials at Deutsche Bahn, the German federal railway system, is serving up a potential train wreck of gargantuan proportions when it comes to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. The officials have proposed a "preferred route" for…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (492+ words) The body of Ran Gvili, the last fallen hostage held in the Gaza Strip, was returned to Israel on Jan. 26 for burial. He was murdered when Hamas and Palestinian terrorists invaded the southern border with Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and proceeded…...

7+ hour, 53+ min ago   (360+ words) Shanie Reichman is not a marginal voice in the American Jewish conversation about Israel. It is an emotionally resonant argument. It is also a dangerous one. This conflation " between skepticism about a specific diplomatic model and abandonment of Zionist identity…...