2+ hour, 55+ min ago   (601+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 JTA " Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer, Maryland's longest-serving member of Congress and a lawmaker with longstanding close ties to the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, has announced his retirement. "I did not want to be one of those members…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1745+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 JTA " In the weeks after Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023, religiously charged videos started circulating on social media. Dozens of young women posted videos of themselves cutting up their "immodest" clothing, jeans, crop tops, minidresses, vowing to…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago   (545+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday's events as they happen. "The aid we have provided to Israel has been a great investment keeping the IDF strong, sharing technology, and making their military more capable " to…...

7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (686+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 NEW YORK " New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday said support for terror groups has "no place in our city," after a pro-Hamas protest in a Jewish neighborhood sparked outrage from other elected leaders. Anti-Zionist…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1115+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 NEW YORK " Sabrina Naimark, a Jewish Panamanian living in Manhattan, had been a longtime fan of the city's Israeli-owned Breads Bakery chain when she saw news that employees were rebelling against its ownership. Some of the…...

9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (499+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 US President Donald Trump said Friday that Washington will "hit Iran very, very hard where it hurts" if the Islamic Republic kills people protesting against the regime. Trump has made variations of this threat several times…...

10+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1176+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 Protesters on Friday took to the streets of Iranian cities for a 13th day in a row, defying threats by authorities of a crackdown and despite reports that security forces had opened fire and killed demonstrators over…...

11+ hour, 3+ min ago   (480+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 BEIRUT, Lebanon " Lebanon's government on Friday signed a deal with an international consortium to explore gas in an offshore area bordering Israel. The deal for exploration at the so-called Block 8 off the coast of southern Lebanon…...

11+ hour, 19+ min ago   (375+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Friday warned security forces in the Islamic Republic could be preparing to commit a "massacre under the cover of a sweeping communications blackout" after imposing a nationwide internet…...

12+ hour, 9+ min ago   (489+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 827 A child was seriously injured after a rock was apparently thrown at a school bus carrying Jewish elementary school students in Teaneck, New Jersey, on Wednesday. The bus was returning third-grade students to Yeshivat Noam, a…...