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“Run for Their Lives is a global movement of local communities, building a wide awareness of the hostages that are currently held by Hamas. We do it by meeting weekly in each neighborhood, and going for a short run or a walk, wearing a branded outfit so that we stand out. We are doing it q…
Four hundred Jewish leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to advocate for emergency supplemental aid to Israel, passage of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, and procurement of increased funding for FEMA's Nonprofit Security Grant Program. Jewish Federation of NENY was represented at this week…
Like many of you, I’ve been trying to follow the UN’s International Court of Justice case brought by the South African government accusing Israel of genocide. I’ve been reading the articles and I watched some of the proceedings. Today, the court announced its complex and confusing deci…
In 1982, on my first trip to Israel, I climbed Masada. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve climbed this mountain since. I jokingly refer to the first sight-seeing tour of Israel as the “climbing Masada trip.” Whether it’s the high-school trip, the summer trip, the Birthright tri…
