https://www.youtube.com/live/w4vN_csujaM
Join us for an enlightening conversation as a Gentile pastor poses tough, thought-provoking questions to Rabbi Schneider, exploring the rich intersections be

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-israel-gaza-war-a-jewish-perspective/
The Israel-Gaza conflict is a complex and multifaceted issue that demands careful analysis from a Jewish Halachic perspective. While Halacha recognizes the right to self-defense and the necessity

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-church-the-jewish-people-and-the-war/
The Church, which shares with Jews an important part of the sacred Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant and their faith as one of the sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf. Rom 11:16-18). As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign religion. I am moved by this sentiment when I write here as a Jew.

https://forward.com/culture/627457/im-losing-my-religion-thanks-to-the-war-can-jewish-tradition-guide-me/
And Judaism today is a rabbinic religion that relies on the writings of such sages codified in the Talmud and books of interpretation such as the mystical Book of Zohar, which sees Amalek as an

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/15/1198908600/the-emotional-impact-of-the-israel-gaza-conflict-on-jewish-and-palestinian-ameri
It's been more than a week of war in Israel and Gaza, following Hamas attacks in southern Israel that left more than 1,300 Israelis dead. In response, Israeli air strikes in Gaza have killed more

https://www.jta.org/2024/06/04/ny/a-new-group-is-a-safe-space-for-observant-jews-who-oppose-israels-war-in-gaza
The name of the group refers to halacha, or traditional Jewish law, and the gathering had two goals: to protest Israel's military operation in Gaza, and to show that doing so was for them an

https://www.vox.com/23915948/jewish-american-israel-gaza-war-attacks-opposing-beliefs-progressive-movement
This week will almost certainly be remembered by Jewish Americans as one of the most difficult in our collective modern memory. There is the primary grief, over the loss of innocent Israeli and

https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-war-gaza
Kirchick goes on to claim that the accusation that Israel is committing genocide is "one of the greatest mass delusions of the 21st century" and analogizes it to the medieval blood libel, the false accusation that circulated from the Middle Ages forward that Jews used Christian blood to make matzo. Juxtaposed against Neier's essay

https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/judaism-101/the-religious-connection-of-the-jewish-people-to-the-land-of-israel/2021/08/29/
Though demography was not an exact science, Jews may have numbered several million in the early Roman Empire. For more than a century before the 70 CE destruction of the Second Temple, most Jews pre

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/long-the-heart-of-liberal-judaism-reform-judaism-shaken-by-israel-gaza-war/ar-AA1lDQAT
The Israel-Gaza war has spotlighted rifts among liberal Jews about Israel's military campaign, what Zionism means and how core a connection to Israel should be to being Jewish.

https://jwa.org/stories/october-7-and-israelgaza-war
The shocking attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023, represents an inflection point in Jewish history. The implications of the attack and the ensuing war in Gaza continue to unfold. We have seen rising antisemitism worldwide, divisions and solidarity within Jewish communities, an increase in Jews' alienation from wider communities, and

https://www.newsweek.com/support-israels-war-shaking-my-faith-americas-jewish-community-opinion-1904582
Saying that does not make me a "self-hating Jew," but a thoughtful one who empathizes with people in Israel as well as Gaza and the West Bank, where illegal settlements continue to grow.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-muslim-and-jewish-faith-groups-are-coming-together-during-israel-hamas-war
How Muslim and Jewish faith groups are coming together during Israel-Hamas war. The conflict in the Middle East has been a fraught subject for decades, including in the U.S., and especially within

https://urj.org/what-we-do/israel-engagement/longstanding-urj-positions-israel-and-israeli-palestinian-conflict
The URJ is committed to a Jewish, democratic state of Israel, flourishing in peace and security. One of the URJ's six core values, which are the moral and ethical imperatives that undergird everything we do, is Israel and Jewish Peoplehood. We believe that Kol yisrael arevim zeh ba'zeh (Shevuot 39a), "All of Israel and the Jewish people are responsible, one for the other." We are

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-war-in-gaza
Palestinian Opinion on War in Gaza; Bibliography and Photo Credits; Statements and Documents. Biden on the Terrorist Attacks in Israel (October 10, 2023) Remarks on the Terrorist Attacks in Israel by President Biden in Israel (October 18, 2023) U.S. Announcement of Humanitarian Assistance to the Palestinian People (October 18, 2023)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-on-gaza-after-palestinians-zionism-next-victim-jewish-faith
Palestinians continue to suffer for western empire's spoils, under the guise of safeguarding the Jewish people. After Palestinians, Zionism's next victim is the Jewish faith. Israel and Zionists

https://www.thejc.com/judaism/the-ethical-defence-to-israels-actions-in-gaza-unsx29fs
In Jewish tradition, a war fought to protect Israel from an enemy attacks is just. Jewish soldiers serving in a just war must battle and kill according to the normal rules of combat.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/804034/jewish/How-Do-I-Explain-Israels-Actions.htm
Israel seeks to live in peace with its neighbors; Hamas and its allies seek to destroy Israel, no matter what Israel does. There is a world of difference between the Hamas terrorists and the Israeli soldiers. The Hamas terrorist seeks violence as a way of life; his aim is to sow war and death.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-26/ty-article-magazine/.premium/polarized-israel-gaza-war-is-forcing-young-u-s-jews-to-choose-sides/0000018c-a608-db79-abee-f6ad3b1d0000
On October 7, up to around 1,200 Israelis were murdered, thousands were wounded, and roughly 230 were taken hostage. The deadliest attack against Jews since the Holocaust, it sent shock waves across the Jewish world that appeared to cut across generations.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19427786231220046
The clear presumption is that Israel and the Jewish people wherever they are constitute an identity. Consequently, in terms of what has become the standard story, that it is simply beyond reason that anti-Semitism and Zionism are compatible one with the other. ... The Gaza War is unlikely to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict to anyone's

https://www.timesofisrael.com/evading-national-service-in-the-jewish-state-is-the-opposite-of-authentic-judaism/
Indeed, few Israeli Jews doubt the centrality of Judaism to Israel's very legitimacy: This is the only ancient and modern homeland of the Jewish people, who were sustained in exile for millennia

https://www.businessinsider.com/jewish-tefillin-comeback-chabad-israel-gaza-war-2024-2?op=1
Demand for leather prayer boxes, called tefillin, has soared among Jews since the war in Israel and Gaza that erupted on October 7. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-06-20/ty-article-magazine/the-palestinian-families-wiped-out-by-israels-war-in-gaza/00000190-356c-d6fa-abb4-77efce9f0000
Hamas militants from Gaza attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people in the deadliest day of the Jewish state's 75-year history. Israel promised to destroy Hamas' leadership and its estimated 35,000 fighting force in response. Within five days, Israel Air Force dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza, including many unguided missiles.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/june-web-only/israel-ultra-orthodox-idf-haredi-draft-exemption.html
Amid the war in Gaza, Israel's most religious Jews threatened to emigrate. ... who came to faith among the small Jewish minority in Tunisia, was one of the first messianic believers in Israel

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-26/ultra-orthodox-jews-soon-to-become-conscripted-to-israeli-army/104026686
Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews now make up 13 per cent of Israel's 10 million population — a figure expected to reach 19 per cent by 2035 due to their high birth rates.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sknsriqgc
Hamas' October 7 assault on Israel elicited a response from the IDF in the Gaza Strip that was unparalleled in its intensity, resulting in a high number of casualties and spawning a significant

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/27/israel-war-on-gaza-live-children-buried-as-us-to-support-israel-build-up?update=3006615
At least 37,765 people have been killed and 86,429 wounded in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of

https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2023/11/the-logic-of-jewish-history/
The war for Israel cannot be fought in Israel alone: the United Nations is right here in New York. Let us look at it this way. Back in elementary school, I remember learning about the fall of Jerusalem and the rise of Yavne—how Yohanan Ben Zakkai got smuggled out of Jerusalem in a coffin so that he could rebuild Judaism on a talmudic foundation.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/06/27/jewish-shabbat-rules-are-tested-by-gaza-war-in-israel-
In Israel, life typically slows down on the weekly day of rest, but since Hamas's October 7 attack and with the ongoing war in Gaza, some Shabbat rules have been turned upside down. (File photo