Since Nov. 4, 2023, a group of marchers have gathered each week and made a trek across downtown Manhattan to publicize the plight of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, with the hope that they will be returned. Among those snatched were a 24-year old woman, Eden Yerushalmi and a 79 year old grandfather, Gadi Moses. ( Photo: Philip Maier) Protestors Call for Return of Hostages on Grim Anniversary of Hamas Terrorist Attack on Israel On October 7, 2023 terrorist organizations, led by Hamas, launched a massive rocket barrage breaching Israeli defenses allowing... Voices 07 Oct 2024 | 12:07
Pro-Palestine NYU students and faculty on April 22 protest and demand NYU divest from holdings in Israel. ( (Photo: Tehsin Pala)) Claims and Counter Claims Fly as “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” Gets Crushed at NYU Tensions remain high at New York University.after hundreds of students who had set up a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in Gould... News 24 Apr 2024 | 08:07
“I did not want to replicate IRL what I was seeing online—adults in my feed fighting about Israel and Palestine, offending one another, and even losing friendships over it,” said Sare Beth Rosenberg. ( Wikimedia Commons) My Students Asked If I Was ‘Team Israeli’ or ‘Team Palestinian” In the past few years, social studies teachers have found it especially challenging to find unbiased, educational, and harm-free... Voices 31 Oct 2023 | 05:36
Photo of Cornelia, “Connie” Kapp-Frydman, the writer’s mother at ten years old, taken after the family fled to Italy after her father, a Yugoslav resistance fighter, was killed fighting Nazis in WW II. Photo: Courtesy of Ken Frydman Son Whose Mother Fled Nazis Never More Proud to be Jewish My mother is having nightmares. Since the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, 88-year-old Cornelia “Connie” Kapp-Frydman... News 29 Oct 2023 | 06:11
The main entrance to the 92NY, which finds itself embroiled in controversy. The Jewish cultural organization cancelled an appearance by an author after he signed a letter calling for a ceasefire in the latest Israel-Palestine war, leading to staff resignations. ( Photo via Epicsunwarrior on Wikimedia Commons) 92Y Pulls Guest Author After He Calls for Gaza Ceasefire, Pauses Series After Uproar 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center called off a guest appearance by critically acclaimed author Viet Thanh Nguyen on October 20–due... News 28 Oct 2023 | 03:27
Empty Shabbat table installation outside of the American Museum of Natural History on Oct. 27. ( Photo by: Vanessa Torres ) Empty Shabbat Table Installation Commemorates Hostages taken by Hamas While war is brewing in the middle east, in the Upper East Side people are honoring the hostages that Hamas terrorists have... Home 27 Oct 2023 | 05:19
New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, Sen. Jabari Brisport, and Council Member Alexia Avilés march with a group of protesters, holding a banner that calls for the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. ( Photo: Honda Wang) 139 Arrested as Thousands of Palestine Supporters Rally for Gaza Cease-fire in Midtown Thousands of people gathered outside of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue at 5 p.m. on Oct. 20, waving Palestinian... News 25 Oct 2023 | 07:10
Congressman Dan Goldman at the vigil that was held in New York on Oct. 9 for victims of recent terrorist attacks in Israel. (Instagram/repdangoldman) Rep. Dan Goldman, After Return from Israel, Says Hamas “Must Be Eradicated” Congressman Dan Goldman, who was in Israel with his family when Hamas breached the Gaza border and killed 1,400 men, women... News 16 Oct 2023 | 05:27
