Washington Jewish Week

10/30/2025

Hamas never really agreed to fully implement Trump’s peace plan.

Grisly videos on social media have captured Hamas goons grabbing, blindfolding and executing suspected Israel collaborators on Gaza City streets.

10/30/2025

The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington announced $376,200 in security funding for more than 30 local Jewish organizations.

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington announces more security funding to enhance safety for the local Jewish community.

10/30/2025

🏘️ Meet Olivia Hazlett, a young professional who seeks to bring Jewish people together both professionally and on the side. She is the senior mid-Atlantic community manager of Mem Global, a peer-led community of Jewish young adults in their 20s and 30s. Olivia supports Moishe Houses from Charlestown, South Carolina to New Jersey.

We talked Jewish matchmaking, a life-changing trip to Israel and Jewish community bonding in the District.

Olivia Hazlett seeks to bring Jewish people together. It’s something she does both professionally and on the side.

10/30/2025

💎 If this can happen at one of the most famous museums on Earth, in broad daylight, in a nation with extensive cultural infrastructure, then no institution is immune. Cultural treasures are soft targets, and the thieves know it.

It reads like the opening scene of a Netflix thriller: a mid-morning jewel heist at the Louvre Museum. Four nimble, experienced criminals in yellow vests.

10/30/2025

Eliezer may have played a vital role in the recitation of our history. Our sages assume that he’s the unnamed servant who later persuaded our matriarch Rebecca to leave her land, to leave her father’s house and go with Eliezer to marry a man that he would show her — Isaac — thus enabling her to play her own essential role in keeping Abraham’s legacy alive.

I wish the Torah had told us more about Eliezer. Did he have a wife? A family? If so, did his children “marry in” and become part of our ancestry?

10/30/2025

A second rabbinic letter about the New York City mayor’s race repudiating the first has drawn hundreds of signatures in the day since its launch.

Explore the rabbinic letter about Mamdani that advocates for shared safety and support for Palestinian self-determination.

10/30/2025

Tucker Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes on his online talk show for a conversation about "these Zionist Jews."

10/29/2025

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👨Goodweather Seeks to Become DC’s First Jewish Mayor
🏆David and June Trone Given JCRC’s Highest Award
🏃‍♀️Run for Their Lives on Pause After Hostage Release
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10/29/2025

🇮🇪 By electing Catherine Connolly as its next president, the Irish electorate has deliberately elevated a figure whose hostility to Israel is not subtle, not occasional and not in dispute.

Ireland has made a choice that speaks volumes — not only about its politics but also about its moral bearings.

10/29/2025

“It won’t happen,” Trump told Time magazine. “It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries … Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”

Sometimes a single moment can reveal everything about an administration’s approach to foreign policy.

10/29/2025

🏛️ There are few presidential powers as sweeping — or as revealing — as the power to pardon. It is a mirror of how a leader understands the limits of their office. For some presidents, it has been an instrument of mercy, a way to correct injustice or offer grace.

For Donald Trump, the power to pardon has become something else entirely: a personal tool to reward allies, enrich loyalists and protect those whose fortunes are tied to his own.

For Trump, the power to pardon has become a personal tool to reward allies, enrich loyalists and protect those whose fortunes are tied to his own.

10/29/2025

🤸‍♀️ In its unabashedly political decision, Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world, publicly asserted that its decision to bar Israeli gymnasts from this critical sports competition was a form of protest against the Jewish state for its launching a counteroffensive against Hamas following the Oct. 7 massacre.

In its unabashedly political decision, Indonesia publicly asserted that its decision to bar Israeli gymnasts from this critical sports competition was a form of protest against the Jewish state.