The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
POWAY, Calif. (JTA) — “Those who are standing can remain standing,” Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein joked, a nod to the standing-room-only crowd that had packed Chabad of Poway for Friday night services. For many of those who filled the sanctuary, showing up was an act of faith, of solidarity, of defiance just six days after a […]
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 35-year-old man became the fourth Israeli civilian to be killed by Gaza rocket fire, after a rocket struck an apartment building in the southern coastal city of Ashdod. The man was in the stairwell of the building when it was struck by a rocket late on Sunday afternoon. He has been […]
IDF says it destroyed cross-border tunnel, underground rocket factory; IDF denies Palestinian claim Gazan baby, her pregnant mother killed in Israeli airstrike.