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Jan 15, 2024 | nysun.com | Dovid Efune

The chaos now engulfing the Middle East and the devastating October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel can be traced back to the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a leader in the anti-Taliban resistance tells The New York Sun.

Jan 12, 2024 | nysun.com | Dovid Efune

An iconic South African Jewish cricket player, Mandy Yachad, is condemning the decision on Friday by Cricket South Africa, the governing body of the sport in the country, to strip the captaincy from the Proteas Under-19 leader, David Teeger. “I am disgusted, but not surprised by the decision to sack him as captain,” Mr. Yachad* tells the Sun. Only last month he had come to the defense of Mr. Teeger.

Dec 28, 2023 | nysun.com | Dovid Efune

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has drawn the ire of the world’s most prominent rabbis, signaling a level of tension with the Jewish community that has not been seen since the days of Pope Pius XII and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Nov 10, 2023 | wsj.com | Dovid Efune

I visited Israel in late August 2005. It was a hot summer, and the political turmoil of the day made it hotter still. The Jewish state was in the throes of one of its more tortured sagas: the self-imposed and forced removal of its citizens from the Gaza Strip. The country was bitterly divided, not for the first or last time. The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had lost its majority and the confidence of his Likud Party’s rank-and-file.

Nov 3, 2023 | nysun.com | Dovid Efune

Further reports are coming to light this week about a baby who was found burned to death in an oven in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on October 7 in southern Israel. In a recorded account seen by The New York Sun, a first responder, Asher Moskowitz, a member of an Israel Police recovery team and deputy head of the Elad branch of the United Hatzalah EMS organization, recalls handling the child’s body on the 4th day after the attack.