Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community 
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations of prominent Israel supporters Pete Hegseth, Rep. Elise Stefanik, and Mike Huckabee respectively as Defense Secretary, US Ambassador to the UN, and US Ambassador to Israel, brought out cheers among my colleagues at this newspaper. They are familiar faces that we’ve seen at pro-Israel fundraising dinners, on missions to Israel, and in the news.
In the years following the development of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military control was ensured by constructing military roads through the territory, subjecting residents to checkpoints between population centers. Upon returning to Gaza following the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, security corridors were brought back on the Egyptian border and south of Gaza City.
(Nov. 26, 2024 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati had agreed to a U.S.-negotiated ceasefire deal on Tuesday.
For the Los Angeles-born Rabbi Ari Edelkopf, appointed as a Jewish spiritual leader in Montenegro in 2017, his commitment to espousing halachic principles to an increasingly curious and growing community nestled in the Balkans remains inspiring.
