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February 18, 2025, 8:11 pm
A starting point for deeper reflection and conversation
Exodus 21:1 – 24:18
By Rabbi Hindy Finman
An AI commercial was recently released featuring prominent members of the Jewish community in response to antisemitic comments from Kayne West. (Photo by Brandon Winters, courtesy of flickr.com)
February 18, 2025, 8:06 pm
I liked the AI Jews-against-Kanye video — and we should all be terrified of it
If AI could create a video that supports the Jews, it could just as easily create videos that defame the Jews
By Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin
(Photo from Flash90)
February 18, 2025, 8:00 pm
Letters to the editor
Readers respond
February 18, 2025, 7:56 pm
Wanted for being Jewish
Since Oct. 7 I have learned what unites the far-left progressive community. It’s called antisemitism
By David Rullo
(L-r) Dr. Max Gerson in 1929; a Works Progress Administration poster warning against "cancer quacks" in 1936-38. (ullstein bild Dtl./public domain)
February 18, 2025, 6:05 pm
Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?
The story behind the show’s “Hirsch Institute,” and why cancer experts have warned against it for decades.
By Andrew Lapin
Row 1 (L-R): Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen, Tal Shoham; Row 2: Omer Shem-Tov, Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed. (All photos courtesy)
February 18, 2025, 2:06 pm
6 hostages to be freed Sat.; Hamas says bodies of Bibas mom, kids set for Thurs. return
Family of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas ‘in turmoil’ over Hamas announcement, has not received Israeli confirmation; only 3 living hostages were to go free this week, but Hamas will instead release all 6 of phase 1’s remaining living hostages
By Lazar Berman
Ari Ribay (left), one of the victims of the shooting, speaks to the media. (Screenshot via JTA)
February 18, 2025, 1:38 pm
Florida man arrested after shooting 2 Israelis he thought were Palestinians
The man, Mordechai Brafman, opened fire on the two men Saturday night, firing 17 shots. They were lightly injured.
By Ben Sales
Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal, Canada, pictured here on Sept. 15, 2022. (Photo by D. Benjamin Miller / Wikimedia Commons)
February 18, 2025, 12:11 pm
Montreal synagogue defaced with swastika on Shabbat
“With how the world is right now, it was a matter more of when, rather than if, something like this would happen,” the synagogue’s rabbi said in a message.
By Ben Sales
Israelis hold photographs of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas at a gathering calling for their release at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, on November 28, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 18, 2025, 10:19 am
Hamas official says bodies of Bibas family will return to Israel on Thursday
The return of the bodies of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas would mark a tragic end to 16 months of activism, protest and prayer on behalf of the family, who became symbols of the Israeli hostages’ plight.
By Ben Sales
Rodef Shalom Congregation. (Photo courtesy of Rodef Shalom Congregation)
February 18, 2025, 9:11 am
Rodef Shalom, Temple Sinai continue with unification talks
“Doing nothing is not an option.”
By David Rullo
February 17, 2025, 4:04 pm
Florence “Flossie” Helfer
Students from Community Day School and Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School begin Shabbat in Cleveland. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
February 17, 2025, 3:47 pm
Walls be gone: Jewish day school educators use Shabbatons for meaningful instruction
Didactic tool is reminder that 'everything about our people is lived in community'
By Adam Reinherz
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, briefs reporters at U.N. Headquarters, Oct. 30, 2024. (Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo)
February 17, 2025, 1:52 pm
UN official employs word salads in defending anti-Jewish, anti-Israel vitriol
Challenged by a Norwegian journalist, Francesca Albanese says “you can make up your own definition” of antisemitism.
By Mike Wagenheim
Actors from “I Never Saw Another Butterfly and The Terezin Promise” rehearse the Holocaust-themed play, which will be stages beginning Feb. 28 at the New Hazlett Theater. (Photo courtesy of Prime Stage Theatre)
February 17, 2025, 1:03 pm
Prime Stage Theatre presents ‘I Never Saw Another Butterly and The Terezin Promise’
Holocaust play is part of company's enGAGE anti-genocide education program
By David Rullo
Hamas terrorists hand over three male Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, as part of the ceasefire agreement between Jerusalem and the Islamist group, in Deir al-Balah, the Gaza Strip, on Feb. 8, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90 via JNS)
February 17, 2025, 12:29 pm
Hamas expected to return bodies of several hostages on Thursday
Separately, Jerusalem trying to persuade the terrorists to free six live captives instead of three in the next round.
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