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This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story is Evan Gershkovich’s memoir of his arrest, 16 months behind bars and release from a Russian prison.

A report released by Israel’s largest health organization found that the most pronounced impact of the health costs of war over the past three years was on mental health.

Major security lapses in three countries preceded the near, deliberate crash of Fly Dubai flight #1073, Sept. 30: Oman, Dubai (UAE) and Israel.

At a Colorado interfaith observance at Resurrection Anglican Fellowship in Greenwood Village in advance of the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, the chanting of “Hatikva” was in full force.

Ahead of Boulder’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the IJN sent a questionnaire to mayoral and City Council candidates. Six people are running for mayor. Three responded: Aaron Brockett (incumbent), Jamo Goldstein and Aquiles La Grave. Overall, candidates’ responses reflect an awareness about how serious the issue of anti-Semitism in Boulder is.

Ahead of Boulder’s municipal election on Nov. 3, the IJN sent a questionnaire to mayoral and City Council candidates. City Council candidates Benita Duran, Sam Fuqua, Jill Grano, Rachel Rose Isaacson, Ryan Jamieson, Tina Marquis, David Martus, Scott Rendleman, Ryan Schuchard, Lynn Segal and Tara Winer responded. Overall, candidates’ responses reflect an awareness about how serious the issue of anti-Semitism in Boulder is.

A Jewish public school teacher who posed as a pro-Palestinian advocate in Philadelphia, Hannah Gann, admitted to fabricating Palestinian, Tunisian and black heritage to her colleagues for years, in a case that some online commenters are dubbing “the Palestinian Rachel Dolezal.”

Charity Commission for England and Wales has opened an investigation into Médecins Sans Frontières UK, also known as Doctors Without Borders, following a report raising concerns about alleged links between the medical charity and terrorist organizations operating in Gaza.

One pilot stabbed another in the cockpit of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in what may have been an attempt to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. A passenger intervened to help restrain the attacker, he added.

“They blow the conch shell. We blow the shofar.” That’s how Rabbi Rachel Short, a rabbi on Hawaii’s Big Island, put it in a conversation the day after JNS reported that Jews, who make up about 0.69% of Hawaii’s population, were the targets of 75% of the religion-based hate crimes in the state in 2025 and, per official data, were targeted in 4.3% of all hate crimes in Hawaii since 2023.