Hourly Roundup 21:00 Israel · 3 Jul 2026
Stories in this hour
- Students Supporting Israel Launch Fall Tour to Promote Black, Ethiopian, Jewish UnityUniversity of Florida campus in April 2026. Photo: USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect. Students Supporting Israel (SSI), one of the largest collegiate groups for Jewish undergraduates in America, on Wednesday announced an ambitious fall…
- Now under-fire UK channel airs matzah blood libel - but Ofcom still insist ‘We can’t do anything’Jewish leaders call for government to step in against Al-Hiwar TV after it was previously exposed by JC for broadcasting pro-terror extremism
- As America turns 250, Jews shouldn’t mistake it for just another exile - opinionSociologist Charles Liebman long ago pointed out that all Jews in America are Jews by choice. Nothing in American society binds you to your Jewishness
- Trump Says He Hs Been ‘Best President’ For Israel, Questions Why Jews Vote DemocratUS President Donald Trump attends a working lunch with the leaders of G7 and the Middle East during the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool President Donald Trump on Friday…
- ‘I though, let’s rebuild the festival and show the world what happened’ – the story behind the Nova ExhibitionCreators of the display bearing witness to horrors of October 7 speak to the JC as it nears the end of its stint in London
- Netanyahu, Trump spoke on Friday, agree to meet 'soon' in the USNetanyahu and Trump last met on February 11, 2026. Later that month, the United States and Israel jointly attacked Iran
- Netanyahu's "huge headache" and the lesson from the hotel security failure: The storm over the PM's visit to New York, two months beforeThe Prime Minister will arrive at the UN General Assembly in September, and the expected visit is already stirring a security and political storm. The Shin Bet and the Secret Service are working on securing…
- No head of state attended Khamenei's funeral: Iran blames the USAli Khamenei's funeral in Tehran is being held without leaders of the great powers, as Iran claims that the US exerted heavy diplomatic pressure on countries not to send senior officials to the event.
Torah perspective
The impulse to rebuild the Nova festival as an exhibition of witness is deeply Jewish. After destruction, Torah does not command despair but testimony. The Mishnah teaches that false witness undermines the world; the opposite is equally true: truthful witness rebuilds it. To show the world what happened is to refuse the comfort of forgetting, to sanctify the Name by insisting that atrocity not be hidden. Yet the rebuilding itself transforms the act: we do not let evil write our story. We remember because memory is the root of redemption. To testify is already to begin restoring light.