Hourly Roundup 00:00 Israel · 12 Nov 2026
Stories in this hour
- A challah festival descends on New YorkA 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…
- Israel and Morocco Expand Defense Partnership Despite Growing Global Efforts to Isolate Jewish StateIsraeli and Moroccan military officials exchange a handshake during a meeting reflecting the growing defense partnership and closer military ties between Jerusalem and Rabat. Photo: Screenshot As international calls to boycott and isolate the Jewish…
- Incoming Rep. Adam Hamawy Refuses to Label Iran a US ‘Adversary’ In Contentious CNN InterviewHere is the credit: Adam Hamawy, Princeton, New Jersey, Sept. 6, 2024. Photo: USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect New Jersey Democrat Adam Hamawy, who is headed to Congress after winning a heavily Democratic House…
- Yeshiva University President: "For Too Long We Were Guests at American Universities"Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman participated in the Israel Hayom conference in New York and said that faculty members from prestigious institutions, including a professor from MIT, are leaving to join Yeshiva University. "They see a…
- Millions went on strike in Spain, massive protests ahead of elections: "I'm 36 years old and can't live alone"The first general strike in 14 years rocked Spain, less than 3 weeks before the fateful elections that serve as a test for the anti-Israeli Prime Minister Sanchez: about 4 million workers went on strike…
Torah perspective
ChallahFest is a small thing, a bakery tour, and that is exactly its power. The sages teach that were Israel to observe two Sabbaths properly, they would be redeemed immediately (Shabbat 118b). The bread itself carries the teaching: the word Shabbat permutes to spell tashov, "you cause to return," and its letters allude to the eye, the shin its three colors, the beit and tav the dark pupil. A table set with challah is a return to the source, a foretaste of the world to come. Seven cities, one loaf, and a people remembering who they are.