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We, the mothers and fathers of Israel, have learned to contain our tears. We cannot afford to fall apart every time a soldier is blown to bits, every time a terrorist attack claims another life, every time a child is brutally injured by flying shards of glass. We have to go on.
Most of the 38 parties registered this time around have no chance of getting anywhere near the Knesset unless they sign up for a tour of the building.
The presumptive next representative of New York’s 12th Congressional District spoke with reporters after being detained by the Israeli military for harvesting olives without permission.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 22, 2026 / JNS) Some 100 Jewish community activists, leaders and innovators from 17 countries on Wednesday concluded in Budapest the second gathering of Voice of the People, a framework developed by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to address shared challenges and develop future Jewish leaders.The three-day conference, held Oct. 19–21, marked the conclusion of […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 22, 2026 / JNS) Israeli soldiers were dispatched on Wednesday to the Samaria village of Awarta following a report and footage of a grave being set on fire, the IDF told JNS on Thursday.Troops searched for suspects, who had fled before their arrival, the military said in response to a JNS inquiry. No injuries […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 21, 2026 / JNS) The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the biggest, and most controversial, political givers during the 2026 midterm elections, said on Wednesday that it would stop endorsing candidates and making direct political action committee donations to them.The group said it would continue its super PAC, the United Democracy Project, […]
Most of the 38 parties registered this time around have no chance of getting anywhere near the Knesset unless they sign up for a tour of the building.
By David Isaac
(Oct. 18, 2026 / JNS) Ronen Bar, ex-head of the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet), apparently had no idea what Hamas was planning or the true nature of its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, just days before the massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, according to an internal agency report, Israel’s Channel 11 reported on Oct. […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 19, 2026 / JNS) On a beautiful autumn day, leaders of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and multiple, high-ranking elected officials gathered at the corner of Second Avenue and East 47th Street in Manhattan to unveil a new street sign which is now co-named Jewish Community Relations Council of New York […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 20, 2026 / JNS) Four decades ago, Shimi Pelman started volunteering for Tomchei Shabbos of Queens, a nonprofit that feeds the needy. Today, as president, he still helps deliver food.“I used to just be a driver for Tomchei Shabbos,” Pelman told JNS. “In 1984, they asked me to serve on the board.” “I love […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Oct. 19, 2026 / JNS) The New York City Police Department’s hate crimes task force is investigating broken windows and spray-painted graffiti at a bank on East 86th Street in Manhattan, an NYPD spokeswoman told JNS.Officers were called to the Capital One Bank branch at about 7:40 a.m. on Monday and “observed broken glass and […]
(Oct. 20, 2026 / JNS) A national organization of Black American pastors on Monday categorically rejected an assertion made by former U.S. President Barack Obama that Israel “took land off people,” saying that claim was a dangerous omission of the Jewish people’s three-thousand-year-old connection to the Holy Land.The strong pushback by the Christian leaders came […]
By Canaan Lidor
(Oct. 20, 2026 / JNS) A Dutch Christian group last week helped rededicate a $560,000 synagogue and community center at an immigrant absorption facility near the northern Gaza Strip, partly in anticipation of mass Jewish immigration driven by rising antisemitism in Western countries.Christians for Israel, based in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, financed the renovation at the […]
(Oct. 19, 2026 / JNS) Syria’s post-Assad educational curriculum heavily features Islamic content that glorifies jihad and martyrdom, according to a new study released on Monday.The findings, which come nearly two years after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, raise serious concerns about Syria’s direction under its current leader, who founded Syria’s […]
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
(Oct. 16, 2026 / JNS) If the Democrats take control of the House in January, as they are expected to do, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would likely become chair of the panel. His track record suggests that he would generally support Israel, experts told JNS.There is a […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 17, 2026 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump expressed optimism Friday about the possible revival of talks on Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with the Jewish state.“Israel has been very helpful to Saudi Arabia,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn on Friday, after being asked about Riyadh’s conflict with the Iranian-backed Houthis. A […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 14, 2026 / JNS) Millions of kids go to bed hungry each night. Lori Golding Zontini was one of them, growing up in Norfolk, Va.“Food wasn’t always there,” said Golding Zontini, 52. “My mom had lots of health issues. She used to lock up the pantry because we didn’t have a lot of food, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 15, 2026 / JNS) Sally Rooney, an Irish author who has expressed support for the anti-Israel terrorist group Palestine Action in the U.K., is unable to profit from book sales there, her British publisher said. Her books will no longer be distributed by Faber & Faber due to her support for Palestine Action, the […]
(Oct. 14, 2026 / JNS) The European Union on Wednesday criticized the Palestinian Authority for postponing legislative and presidential elections until September 2027, saying Palestinians have waited too long to choose their leaders.“The EU deeply regrets the decision,” Kaja Kallas, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, stated. The legislative elections had […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Oct. 14, 2026 / JNS) A day after JNS reported that Andrea Martin, a new Jewish human relations commissioner in Pennsylvania, hopes that the state will amend its statutes to include the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a measure to that effect.Judith Schwank, a Democratic […]
Wiesel’s Son and Protégé, Elisha, Speaks Out on the Nobel Committee’s Ignoble Move
By Joshua Marks
(Oct. 14, 2026 / JNS) Colombia on Wednesday morning opened its embassy in Jerusalem, the 10th foreign diplomatic mission in the Israeli capital.Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, joined by Colombian Foreign Minister Omar Bula Escobar, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion and Israel’s ambassador to Colombia, Vivian Aisen, said after signing the embassy’s guest book that it […]
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
(Oct. 13, 2026 / JNS) Nearly 175 volunteers cleaned up part of Pico-Robertson, a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles, on Sunday.“We, as the Jewish community, want to be good neighbors and be in good neighbor-ship with others,” Becky Sobelman-Stern, deputy CEO of the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, told JNS. “That’s exactly what you’re […]
(Oct. 13, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a case that may define the boundaries of what constitutes “material support” for a terrorist organization.The respondent, Izuchukwu Ozurumba, is a Nigerian national whose asylum claim in the United States was rejected after it was determined that, despite acting under duress, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 13, 2026 / JNS) Elazar Yair Wilensky, a ninth-grade student at ORT Ma’alot Yeshiva High School, was identified as the fatality caused on Monday when unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip in northern Israel. The Israel Defense Forces’ preliminary assessment indicated that the device was likely an unexploded Hezbollah cluster munition left in […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Oct. 12, 2026 / JNS) A federal court has ruled that Dov Aloof, an Israeli-American professional Pokémon player, can proceed with a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the Japanese media company punished his pro-Israel advocacy while allowing another player’s anti-Israel expression.Hernán Vera, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, denied […]
By David Israel
(Oct. 13, 2026 / TPS-IL) Breast cancer remains the most common malignancy among women in Israel, accounting for approximately one-third of all new cancer cases among women, according to 2023 data released by the Health Ministry’s National Cancer Registry for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.A total of 5,565 new cases were diagnosed in 2023. Of these, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 13, 2026 / JNS) Israel’s Jezreel Valley received the Best Resilient Practice in Wine Tourism award at the 11th Iter Vitis Awards, held on Friday evening in Ilok, Croatia.The award recognizes the region’s ability to sustain and develop its wine tourism sector through several challenging years, while supporting local businesses and community initiatives, according […]
(Oct. 13, 2026 / TPS-IL) Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have demonstrated an experimental computer memory approach that brings energy dissipation close to a fundamental limit set by the laws of physics, potentially opening the way to more energy-efficient computing in systems that operate at extremely low temperatures.The approach uses a superconducting vortex […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 9, 2026 / JNS) Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, and fellow council member Jennifer Gutiérrez presented a $1.16 million check to the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, an Orthodox group founded in 1966 by Holocaust survivors that represents 70,000 people and more than 200 nonprofits.“This large check […]
(Oct. 9, 2026 / JNS) The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, an independent judicial body in The Hague, in its entirety on Friday.The move builds on an executive order that U.S. President Donald Trump signed shortly after the start of his second term, which was previously used to impose sanctions on […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 9, 2026 / JNS) South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, who headed a United Nations commission that accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award in Oslo, citing Pillay’s decades-long work in international law and human rights. “The […]
For United Hatzalah, the third anniversary is also an opportunity to remember its volunteers who lost their lives, as well as the men, women and children who were murdered and the soldiers who fell defending the State of Israel.
The Pavilion, one of ten dining stations in Dartmouth’s Class of 1953 Commons, is certified kosher by the Orthodox Union as of this fall, reports the student newspaper The Dartmouth. Two full-time mashgichim were hired, the kitchen was koshered, and equipment that couldn’t be koshered was replaced. A vegetable-washing sink was also installed. Dining director […]
By Alan Zeitlin
“When we started, the team wasn’t good, but now we have fans. Hopefully, this game is one of many celebrity games as we continue to get more and more support.” — Nate Fish, CEO of Israel Baseball Americas
(Oct. 7, 2026 / JNS) Rebeca Grynspan, an economist and former Costa Rican vice president who is Jewish, still leads the race to become the next United Nations secretary-general. But the number of “negative” votes she received in the U.N. Security Council’s fifth straw poll, on Wednesday, was double what she received in the previous […]
(Oct. 8, 2026 / JNS) Christian supporters of Israel around the world are “moral warriors” against Qatar, the president of the World Jewish Congress Israel Region said on Wednesday.Sylvan Adams’s remarks follow criticism of the Gulf nation as a major driver of anti-Israel sentiment, global antisemitism, and regional instability. “Christian supporters of Israel are spiritual […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 8, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday that he received no advance warning of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack, saying that security chiefs had repeatedly assessed the terrorist organization as deterred in the months and days before the assault.In a Likud statement posted to his X account on […]
(Oct. 7, 2026 / JNS) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is drawing widespread criticism after again accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” in a statement ostensibly about marking the third anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks, which was the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.“This day is profoundly painful for […]
In a press release today, the Lawfare Project and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced they had filed suit in the US District Court of the Southern District of New York on behalf of Sophie Shabot, an American Jew who is also a citizen of Israel, against The New School, where she alleges she […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 7, 2026 / JNS) World leaders on Wednesday marked three years since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks that killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to Israel, writing on social media: “Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists tortured, mutilated, and murdered 1,200 innocent civilians […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 7, 2026 / JNS) The first cranes of the autumn migration season have arrived at KKL-JNF Hula Lake Park in northern Israel, heralding the return of one of the country’s most spectacular annual natural phenomena.The first birds arrived overnight Monday into Tuesday, with tens of thousands more expected to descend on the Hula Valley […]
By David Isaac
(Oct. 7, 2026 / JNS) In a first-of-its-kind conference, more than 80 farmers and farm owners from across Judea and Samaria met online on Monday evening with representatives of government ministries and security authorities to discuss strategy ahead of the olive harvest season—a period anti-Israel activists exploit to incite against the region’s residents and the […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 6, 2026 / JNS) More than 5.2 million Israeli flags are being planted worldwide to remember the victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said on Monday. The initiative also seeks to strengthen ties between Israel and Christian communities around the world.The Flags of Fellowship campaign runs […]
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
(Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS) The main entry on Wikipedia—one of the most visited sites on the internet and one that reportedly feeds into the ways that artificial intelligence tools answer questions from users—essentially blames Israel for being attacked on Oct. 7, the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.Jew-hatred watchdogs and pro-Israel groups have […]
(Oct. 6, 2026 / TPS-IL) During the eighth century BCE, workspaces at Tel Shikmona, a fortified industrial site on the Carmel coast south of modern-day Haifa that was controlled by the Kingdom of Israel, were adapted seasonally for different activities rather than dedicated to a single permanent use, according to a new University of Haifa […]
(Oct. 5, 2026 / TPS-IL) Three years after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and the conflicts that followed, Israelis are increasingly likely to view their country as Middle Eastern rather than European and are growing more skeptical of Europe, according to a new survey.The findings offer a snapshot of how the security crisis has […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS) The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that was indicted for allegedly funneling donor funds to members of white supremacist groups, updated its antisemitism resource on Thursday, adding “weaponization” to its list of examples of prominent antisemitic narratives.In July, the list included “the anti-immigrant ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory,” “the demonization […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS) The Indian captain seriously wounded during the midair attack aboard a flydubai flight bound for Israel has spoken publicly for the first time about his fight to save the aircraft and the more than 180 people aboard, confirming that he opened the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to intervene.Capt. […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 24, 2026 / JNS) Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun in New York on Wednesday, on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly, according to Syria’s Foreign Ministry.“During the meeting, a number of issues of common interest were discussed, as well as […]
(Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. State Department intends to host a memorial ceremony dedicated to American victims of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, JNS has learned.The event will be held on Sept. 30, three days before the third anniversary of the attack on the Jewish calendar, and is being handled at the highest […]
By Joshua Marks
(Sept. 24, 2026 / JNS) Neria Leiter, the son of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, remains in very serious condition after being injured in a Palestinian terror attack on Wednesday, Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center said on Thursday morning.“He is in very serious condition, and there is still a danger to his […]
(Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) The Israeli Foreign Ministry criticized Jordanian King Abdullah II on Wednesday, following his speech at the United Nations General Assembly against Israel’s policies in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, which he claimed violate international law.“It is particularly amusing to hear King Abdullah II of Jordan speak so passionately about international […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, sued Blue Bell Creameries, alleging that a Jewish body shop technician in the Brenham, Texas, ice cream company’s facility in Alabama was fired after he requested a religious accommodation to keep his beard.The Sylacauga, Ala., staffer was fired in March 2025, […]
By Canaan Lidor
(Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) Spain’s main Jewish organization on Wednesday circulated a manifesto signed by more than 350 cultural figures opposing the exclusion of an Argentine-Jewish novelist from a literary festival in Granada following her opposition to boycotts against Israel.The organizers of the CULTUR ALH de Granada festival, who canceled a scheduled Sept. 26 […]
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
(Sept. 18, 2026 / JNS) Jeannette Sánchez-Palacios, mayor of Ventura, Calif., said at a press conference at Temple Beth Torah, a Reform synagogue in the city, on Friday that she is working with others to have the city to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred.“This would be particularly important work that […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 17, 2026 / JNS) German-American artist Peter Max, whose colorful, psychedelic artwork expressed the optimism of the “flower power” movement of the 1960s, died on Monday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 88.No cause of death was given, but Max had suffered from dementia for years. His death was announced Wednesday by his son, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) Israel’s men’s and women’s chess teams pulled out of their sixth-round matches against the Netherlands and Bulgaria at the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan that were scheduled to take place on Monday, after both opponents declined requests to change the date, which fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 17, 2026 / JNS) Sweden has expelled an Iranian embassy employee and summoned the country’s ambassador for allegedly threatening Jewish and Israeli interests in Sweden, the country’s justice minister said on Wednesday.“We know that Iran, over a long period of time, has conducted activities that threaten security in and against Sweden, targeting both individuals […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS) Some 150 people gathered at the Orthodox Union’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday to mark the first yahrzeit, the one-year anniversary of the death of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, the umbrella group’s former executive vice president. Speakers remembered the late OU leader as a mentor, teacher, friend and communal leader, whose influence […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS) In its 2026-2027 school resource guide, the Council on American-Islamic Relations devotes 26% of its text to Gaza and Palestinian advocacy while making no mention of Israel, Hamas, the Oct. 7 massacre or the hostages, according to an analysis released by the Combat Antisemitism Movement on Monday.CAIR describes the guide […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS) A Gaza terrorist who U.S. prosecutors allege joined the Hamas assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, can be heard in intercepted telephone calls laughing and discussing weapons and ammunition as the attack was underway, according to newly filed federal court exhibits.One of the transcripts, filed on Tuesday by […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS) U.S. Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that aired on Tuesday that America cannot allow its Middle East foreign policy to be “subservient” to the State of Israel.Speaking on the “All-In Podcast,” Vance compared Washington’s relationship with Jerusalem to U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to America’s “important partnerships” […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 15, 2026 / JNS) Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who narrowly lost the Democratic primary for Senate to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, said on Tuesday that she has continued to be badgered over her pro-Israel views.“Earlier today, I was leaving a science committee hearing, standing up for science to address climate change, when I was once […]
“The practice of carrying firearms to church thus goes back to the days of the Pilgrims, who thought it necessary to keep and bear arms to ensure their safety before, during, and after church services,” said Conel John Eidsmoe, senior counsel to the Foundation for Moral Law in the wake of New York’s 2022 Concealed Carry Improvement Act.
By Canaan Lidor
(Sept. 15, 2026 / JNS) In a survey conducted this month among a sample of 663 Israeli Jews, 72% of respondents said they would not agree to an Israel Defense Forces withdrawal to the pre-Oct. 7, 2023, Gaza border without a security perimeter inside the Strip.The data, with the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) published […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday that it designated the Russian financial institution VTB Bank for its involvement in evading Iranian sanctions, including forming relationships with Iranian banks.The department “will continue to target and disrupt those who provide material, technological or financial support that allows the Iranian regime to […]
By David Isaac
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) The New York Times coverage of the Gaza war “offers a distorted view of the conflict,” focusing on the suffering of Palestinians, their casualties and Gaza’s destruction while de-emphasizing Israeli suffering, according to a Sept. 7 study in the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.Edieal Pinker, of the Yale School […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) Israeli forces killed two members of Hamas’s engineering unit in a strike in the Gaza City area, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday. The military identified them as Hassan Ali Abu Nada and Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Khalil Khawa.According to the IDF, the two men were recently involved in weapons […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 12, 2026 / JNS) A man waving a Palestinian flag stormed onto the field during Friday night’s Subway Series game at Yankee Stadium, on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.The man was quickly tackled to the ground by police, prompting the crowd to […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 11, 2026 / JNS) The Clinton administration was warned in September 1998, three years before 9/11, that the terrorist group behind bombings at U.S. embassies in Africa, al-Qaeda, might fly an explosives-laden plane into an American city, according to intelligence reports that the CIA released on Friday.A Sept. 10, 1998, brief titled “Bin Ladin’s […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 10, 2026 / JNS) The Chicago Rabbinical Council, a nonprofit that has a kosher certification arm, has developed what it says is an innovative model for Jewish divorce, which combines mediation and binding arbitration to address legal, religious and communal dimensions of divorce.The CRC program allows divorcing couples to begin in mediation, turn to […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 10, 2026 / JNS) Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich has withdrawn from an April 13, 2027, Tel Aviv performance of “The Music Critic” after a press release attributed to him remarks he said he never made or approved.Malkovich said a public relations firm hired by the Israeli promoter drafted the quote without consulting him and […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 10, 2026 / JNS) An Orthodox Jewish man shouldn’t have to finish a local permitting process in order to challenge an Ohio city’s restriction on hosting prayer gatherings in his home, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty told the U.S. Supreme Court.“Religious freedom is an empty promise when Americans can’t get their day in […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 8, 2026 / JNS) Montgomery County police will not issue criminal citations for violations of a new firearms law barring the carrying of guns in or within 100 yards of houses of worship while litigation challenging the measure is pending, the county told a federal court Tuesday.The county’s filing came in a lawsuit brought […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 9, 2026 / JNS) Kiryat Motzkin has the highest mammography screening rate for breast cancer of all Israeli cities, with 75.5% of eligible women undergoing the checkup, according to 2025 data from Clalit Health Services, the healthcare organization said on Sunday.In Israel, mammography screening is covered under the national health basket for women aged […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 9, 2026 / JNS) Israeli security forces said on Tuesday that they dismantled a terrorist network involving more than 30 suspects from Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria that was allegedly preparing attacks against Jews and security forces.Five Jerusalem residents were indicted in Jerusalem District Court, according to a joint statement from the Israel Police, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 8, 2026 / JNS) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Alternative für Deutschland’s victory in the Saxony-Anhalt elections on Sunday is “a tectonic upheaval in our party system,” the daily Bild reported.The far-right party, which has been called antisemitic by German Jewish groups, won 43.8% of the vote in the state election, garnering 39 […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 7, 2026 / JNS) A new book, which comes 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City, addresses the rabbinic laws about the status of wives, whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center.An agunah is a woman who cannot remarry, either because her husband’s death has not […]
(Sept. 7, 2026 / JNS) New York state will distribute $70 million to 290 nonprofit community-based organizations that are “vulnerable to hate crimes and attacks due to their ideology, beliefs or mission,” the office of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told JNS exclusively on Monday.“The Jewish community has been subjected to horrible, horrible acts of […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 3, 2026 / JNS) Two Israelis are among the more than 4,000 people still missing Thursday following the catastrophic flooding triggered by a glacial collapse in Nepal last week.At least 1,273 people (1,252 in Nepal, 21 in Tibet) were killed in the Aug. 26 natural disaster. The missing Israelis are a 60-year-old man and […]
(Sept. 7, 2026 / JNS) The Pacific nation of Naoero (formerly known as Nauru) opened an embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, becoming the ninth country to locate its diplomatic mission in Israel’s capital.“Israel’s relations with the nations of the South Pacific are advancing tremendously,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said at the event. “Today two […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 3, 2026 / JNS) Gloria Steinem, a mother of Second Wave feminism and a shaper of American culture, died Wednesday in her home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She was 92 years old.The longtime political agitator, activist and founder was known for her forceful activism and speeches on behalf of women’s equality. She was […]
By Alan Zeitlin
... We are being told by non-Jews who never stepped inside a shul or even watched the Charlton Heston version of The Ten Commandments what our religion, biblical and historical ties to Israel should and shouldn’t be.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 2, 2026 / JNS) Barnard College, an undergraduate college within Columbia University, has paused new and pending Curricular Practical Training approvals for international students as it updates its protocols to comply with new federal guidance.According to the Columbia Daily Spectator, the student-run newspaper of both Columbia and Barnard, the college paused approvals following two […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) If elected governor of New York, Bruce Blakeman plans to muzzle New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to prevent him from making anti-Israel statements, the Republican and Nassau County executive told JNS in a video interview on Tuesday.“I wouldn’t let Zohran Mamdani get away with the virulent antisemitic comments he’s […]
(Sept. 3, 2026 / JNS) A delegation of 14 African Christian leaders from four countries is visiting Israel this week, amid increased outreach to tens of millions of Christian supporters across the continent.The faith-based trip highlights the diplomatic tug-of-war between supporters and opponents of the Jewish state in Africa, home to more Christians than any […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to extend federal government funding through Dec. 11, eliminating the threat of a shutdown before the November midterm elections.The 370-48 vote sends the measure to U.S. President Donald Trump for his signature. The Senate passed the continuing resolution 90-6 on Aug. 8. “I […]
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) Vice President JD Vance spoke to Jewish Republicans in Las Vegas on Monday amid doubts from some pro-Israel conservatives about his feelings towards the Jewish state, his self-described “realist” foreign policy views and his relationship with Tucker Carlson.Vance was met with applause by attendees at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 31, 2026 / JNS) On a breezy Sunday morning in the Bronx, about 20 people gathered near the 182nd-183rd Street subway station to explore a side of the neighborhood near Fordham University that is easy to miss today—its Jewish past. “I find it fascinating that there are so many layers of history that people […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) Talia Dekel-Fleissig, who led the Jerusalem Press Club as CEO until it shuttered after 13 years on Tuesday, plans to formally open the Israel Press Club, which is to serve foreign correspondents and visiting journalists, on Oct. 27, Israeli Election Day, she told JNS exclusively.The new Tel Aviv-based club is […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended his congratulations on the capture of the head of Hamas’s internal security apparatus on Tuesday.Describing the terrorist as “one of the most senior Hamas leaders,” the prime minister said he had been “responsible for hiding and transporting our abductees [and] hiding senior Hamas officials.” […]
The 2026-27 school year opened today in Israel at approximately 28,000 locations across the country, per the Israeli Ministry of Education. There are approximately 180,000 first graders and 143,000 twelfth graders, out of a total student body numbering around 2.6 million. Per the ministry, around 260,000 teachers have begun the year as well. The Israel […]
(Aug. 28, 2026 / JNS) After New York state regulators approved a proposed merger between Maimonides Medical Center and New York City’s public hospital system on Thursday, Orthodox Jewish leaders warned that the deal could cost the community control over a hospital that has accommodated Jewish religious needs for generations.A committee of the New York […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 28, 2026 / JNS) Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 29, a former civilian employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is part of the Pentagon, pleaded guilty to sharing national defense information with a foreign government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.Laatsch, of Alexandria, Va., worked in the agency’s insider threat division and held a […]
By Canaan Lidor
(Aug. 30, 2026 / JNS) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded a medal of honor on Thursday to Natan Sharansky in Kiyv for his efforts to help Ukraine and preserve the memory of the Holocaust there.Sharansky, a human rights activist and former Prisoner of Zion, received the 3rd class Order of Merit of Ukraine medal for his […]
Olim B’Limud has reached a milestone of approximately forty million Israeli new shekalim distributed among participating yeshivos and seminaries. A program of the Jewish Agency for Isael in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Olim B’LImud offers a range of financial assistance and educational supplements for gap year students studying in Israel. […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
(Aug. 26, 2026 / JNS) After antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker tried to blame Jewish supporters of Israel for worsening antisemitism, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) called on House Republican leaders on Tuesday to allow a vote on his bipartisan resolution condemning such voices in both parties.“Hatred is hatred. Period,” stated Gottheimer, who is Jewish. “Let’s bring […]
(Aug. 25, 2026 / JNS) A “secret garden.” That’s how James Kellerhouse describes the grassy, historic grounds of Vanderbilt University’s new campus in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.“You walk through the gates and you’re just in this oasis of historic, beautiful buildings,” Kellerhouse, assistant vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and executive director of operations and engagement for […]
(Aug. 26, 2026 / JNS) The Trump administration sanctioned on Wednesday three entities it says are “violent far-left terrorist groups,” with all connected to anti-Israel activity.The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Palestine Action, a United Kingdom-based organization that was proscribed as a terrorist group by Britain in July 2025. The group has targeted defense […]
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