Hourly Roundup 00:00 Israel · 3 Oct 2026
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- Protesters disrupt Mahmoud Khalil book eventA version of this piece first ran as part of the New York Jewish Week’s daily newsletter, rounding up the latest on politics, culture, food and what’s new with Jews in the city. Sign up…
- The vacation from Jewish history is over for AmericansIt didn’t begin on Oct. 7, 2023. And it won’t end after Oct. 27, 2026, even if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated for re-election. The change in attitudes toward Jews in recent years…
- Jewish communities worldwide under heightened threat after flydubai attackThe apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv has left Israelis stranded in the UAE, after flydubai suspended its flights to and from Israel while the investigation continues
- Israeli television marks three years since October 7 massacreTV Time: What is most striking about much of the new programming is how different it feels from the documentaries made in the first months after the attack
- America’s only major etrog grower is in survival mode amid global competitionThe Kirkpatrick family, who are not Jewish, began growing etrogs 46 years ago on a small California ranch. Now, they are the only major commercial growers of kosher etrogs in the United States
The erasure of Jews from sectors of American life where they once flourished is not a political trend but a spiritual test. The Jewish people have faced this pattern across every host culture for two millennia. What changes is not the hostility but the response. The Torah's instruction is not to measure acceptance by the tolerance of the surrounding society, but by the inner integrity of Jewish life itself. When the prophet tells Israel 'you are a people apart' (Bamidbar 23:9), it is not a curse but a calling. The current moment strips away the illusion that Jewish safety depends on being liked. It returns us to the older, harder truth: Jewish continuity has never been guaranteed by the gentleness of exile, but by the strength of what we build within it.