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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 25, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Sen. Rubio's Office.

Netanyahu, Rubio discuss Gaza war, ‘unwavering’ US support for Israel

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An Israeli soldier during military activity in the Rafah area of southern Gaza on March 23, 2025. Credit: IDF.

IDF expands ground operations throughout Gaza

Troop encircled Tel al-Sultan in Rafah and entered Beit Hanun to target Hamas terrorists and expand the security zone.

IDF downs Houthi missile as sirens sound across central Israel

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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks during a rally against the government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2025. Photo by Dor Pazuelo/Flash90.

Coalition MKs slam Lapid’s call for anti-gov’t strike, ‘tax revolt’

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Amid escalation and protests, US issues travel warning for Israel

Anti-Israel activists protest at Times Square in Manhattan for Al-Quds Day on April 5, 2024. Credit: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images.

Canada braces for week of anti-Israel ‘Al Quds’ events

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Teenager with Palestinian roots hits, bites French rabbi

The attack in Orléans prompted condemnations from Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar.

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Israeli Cabinet unanimously votes no confidence in AG

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Deni Avdija’s career night powers Blazers past Nuggets

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Jewish coaches retake center stage in college basketball

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Israel opens World Cup qualifiers with 2-1 victory over Estonia

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U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff appears on :The Tucker Carlson Show," March 21, 2025. Credit: Tucker Carlson/YouTube.

Witkoff: Blocking Iran nukes, solving Gaza key to regional stability

David Isaac

Foreign citizens wait at the Rafah crossing to be allowed to travel on Oct. 21, 2023 in Rafah, Gaza. Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images.

Israel establishes new body to assist Gazans seeking to emigrate

Joshua Marks

Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel's attorney general, attends the funeral of former National Labor Court Judge Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Dec. 11, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israeli Cabinet unanimously votes no confidence in AG

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Construction in the Dagan neighborhood of Efrat in Judea on July 22, 2019. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

13 Judea and Samaria towns split from ‘mother’ communities

Akiva Van Koningsveld

PLO envoy to Mexico Nadya Rasheed (left) presents her diplomatic credentials to President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City on March 21, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico.

Diplomatic event sparks claims Mexico recognized ‘Palestine’

Canaan Lidor

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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court, Dec. 10, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Netanyahu is right about Israel’s ‘deep state’

Oil’s surprising role behind Oct. 7 and the Abraham Accords

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Jennifer Sutton, Ep. 170.

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French far-right politician Marine Le Pen (second from right) and deputies including Sebastien Chenu to her right and Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally (right) participate in a march against antisemitism from the Esplanade des Invalides to the Senate on Nov. 12, 2023 in Paris. Photo by Antoine Gyori-Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Don’t reject allies who oppose the red-green antisemitic alliance

INSIDE ISRAEL

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir leads the party's faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 3, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Ben-Gvir urges strikes on Hamas food reserves, power supply

IDF attacks two military bases in central Syria

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Israeli soldiers drill the evacuation of wounded comrades via helicopter in the Golan Heights, Feb. 7, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Israeli Defense Ministry: Over 16,000 war wounded treated

Israeli aerial defense systems intercept Hezbollah rockets over the Upper Galilee, as seen from Safed, Oct. 9, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

IDF downs three terror rockets fired from Lebanon

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Gazans walk north on the al-Rashid Road coastal route to cross the Netzarim Corridor on Jan. 27, 2025. Photo by Youssef Alzanoun/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images.

Poll: Half of Gaza residents are ready to leave if given the chance

Israel Hayom

Israeli nursing student saves tourist in Sri Lanka after lightning strike

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Wanda Peretz with a copy of her book at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Photo by Sharon Altshul.

Wanda Peretz’s journey through art, faith and history

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US & CANADA NEWS

A view of protesters demonstrating outside the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 22, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

Columbia agrees to Trump admin’s conditions to restore federal funding

Vita Fellig

Tammy Bruce, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman, holds a daily press briefing on March 6, 2025. Credit: Freddie Everett/U.S. State Department.

‘A distraction’ to talk of annexing Gaza, State Department says

Mike Wagenheim

Masih Alinejad, one of the most outspoken opponents of the Islamic regime in Tehran, receiving the American Jewish Committee's Moral Courage Award, June 2022. Credit: American Jewish Committee.

Two men convicted in Iranian plot to kill American dissident

Surveillance camera. Credit: Pixabay.

Release grant monies for synagogue, nonprofit security, bipartisan House group tells Trump admin

Jonathan D. Salant

A gavel. Credit: Pixabay.

NJ woman admits to stealing $350,000 from synagogue

Newspaper. Credit: Andrys/Pixabay.

CAMERA slams ‘Politico’ for omitting Georgetown fellow’s Hamas ties

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Group arrested for breaking into historic Indiana synagogue

The White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: Pixabay.

Law firm strikes $40 million deal with White House, will fight Jew-hatred pro-bono

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council on March 21, 2025. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

UN resolution that passed on Obama admin 11th-hour abstention ‘a mistake,’ US envoy says

Mike Wagenheim

Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) at the Jewish Democratic Council of America’s 2024 Leadership Summit, May 21, 2024. Credit: Jewish Democratic Council of America.

Jewish Ill. congressman blames Hamas for resumed fighting, stresses diplomacy

UN staffer hospitalized in Israel has pro-Nazi tattoos

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner speaking at the ceremony for the Felix Houphouet-Boigny award for Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo for "Pursuit of peace" at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on Sept. 13, 2011. Credit: Presidency of Argentina via Wikimedia Commons.

Former Argentine president, suspected of Iran bombing cover-up, sanctioned by US

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SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Former hostages, including Alexander "Sasha" Troufanov, hold a press conference at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Melanie Phillips

The agonizing dilemma

Israeli soldiers near the Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Fiamma Nirenstein

Israel’s war for survival

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a security assessment at the Kirya in Tel Aviv with Defense Minister Israel Katz and senior security officials, March 18, 2023. Photo: Maayan Toaf/GPO.

Ruthie Blum

Striking when the iron’s cold

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world

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David M. Litman

Politico runs cover for Hamasniks at Georgetown

Shoshana Bryen

It is, and it isn’t one war

Joseph Puder

Where are the Christians of Bethlehem and the Middle East?

Joseph Frager

Making good on campaign promise

Gedaliah Blum

Faith-based diplomacy: The best way forward for Israel

Alyza D. Lewin

‘Erasive’ antisemitism

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

God in a box

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Moshe Phillips

P.A.’s ‘crackdown’ on terror was fake

Erfan Fard

Global public opinion is against Iran’s regime, Islamic terrorism

Jason Shvili

Arab plan for Gaza ignores Palestinians’ failed quest to destroy Israel

Brandy Shufutinsky

When speech turns into conduct

Robert Silverman

Mahmoud Khalil case

Sarah N. Stern

Something has changed

Palestinian supporters mark the approaching anniversary of the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks on Israel in Times Square on Oct. 5, 2024. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images.

Richard D. Heideman, Joseph Tipograph

Resistance is terror

The moral justification implied by “resistance” is rendered meaningless when it involves bombings, rocket attacks, rape and the abduction of civilians.

Israelis protest for the return of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 15, 2025. Credit: Flash90.

Efraim Inbar

The hostage crisis: A test of Israel’s national resilience

As Israel grapples with the ongoing war, the growing focus on hostage negotiations raises critical questions about national endurance and the balance between immediate humanitarian concerns and long-term security imperatives

Posters distributed around New York University of people kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 are vandalized and covered with pro-Palestinian graffiti on Oct. 25, 2023. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images.

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Ben Cohen

Countering the Oct. 7 deniers

A new report on Hamas’s atrocities offers an impressive counterweight for undecided readers who will encounter the deniers as they seek the truth.

Jan Lee

Drawing hope from Passover’s message

Anna Stanley

New U.K. education leader has a troubling history of extremist ties

Chaim Noll

Obama’s long arm

Jon Lerner

Buenos Aires, the unexpected capital of the Jewish Diaspora

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Mitchell Bard

Trump is right on anti-Semitism

Yoel Zilberman

Israel’s security model is failing

Oded Ailam

Breaking the paradigm in Gaza

Lizzy Savetsky

No other purpose

Bryan E. Leib

Promises made, promises kept

Farley Weiss

Democrats fail to grasp the concerns of American Jews

Phyllis Chesler

How the West was won, and how it can be saved

featured column

Martin Sherman

The alliance that alarms the ayatollahs

Mordechai Kedar

Iran, its adversaries and the Middle Corridor

WORLD

Pope Francis meets at the Vatican with relatives of Israelis held captive in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 22, 2023. Photo by Yair Rotem.

Pope to leave hospital after double pneumonia

JNS Staff

BBC requests guest ‘critical of Netanyahu,’ Gaza ground offensive

Demonstrators reinforce a barricade at an anti-Israel tent encampment at the University of Amsterdam, six months to the day after a violent citywide attack against Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans, on May 7, 2024. Credit: Umbrellafighter via Wikimedia Commons.

4 culprits from Amsterdam pogrom get brief jail sentences

Canaan Lidor

Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in Tel Aviv on March 16, 2025. Credit: KOKO/Israel Hayom.

Former French PM: I didn’t agree with every decision made by Macron

Israel Hayom

South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool at the Pentagon in 2012. Credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/Wikipedia.

South African Jews worry about Pretoria’s tense ties with Washington

Rolene Marks

‘Zionists are not welcome’: Israeli spat on in Dublin eatery

JNS Staff

The aftermath of a suspected arson outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris, France on march 20, 2025. Photo courtesy of
the European Jewish Congress.

French regional council head labels Paris dumpster fire ‘antisemitic infamy’

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Press releases from around the Jewish world

Wire

A girl recites the four questions at Passover. Photo by Laura Ben David/Jewish Life Photo Bank.

Search for PJ Library’s DIY question catchers

The origami-style paper toys will be in a 100th anniversary box of Streit's Matzo just in time for Passover.

Ifat Ovadia-Luski, chairwoman of KKL-JNF, at a tree-planting ceremony in the Biriya Forest in northern Israel on Feb. 4, 2025. Credit: Anat Harmoni, KKL-JNF.

Dozens of ambassadors tour southern Israel, witnessing impact of war on the Gaza Envelope

During the visit, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund presented rehabilitation efforts jump-started by the agency.

The “USS Carney” guided-missile destroyer defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea on Oct. 19, 2023. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau.

Gaza ceasefire collapses; Houthis continue to target US and Israel

Funding, weapons and training by Iran enable Hamas and the Houthis to carry out devastating attacks, including attacks against U.S.-flagged merchant ships.

The Focus Project

Gary Engel. Credit: Courtesy of Jewish National Fund-USA.

Top media executive named chief marketing officer at JNF-USA

Gary Engel is named new chief marketing officer of the Jewish National Fund-USA.

Jewish National Fund-USA

Participants in the therapeutic mountain-biking program run by Geerz, which also sponsors an annual “Israel Charity Ride.” Credit: Courtesy.

Riding for resilience: 100-plus bicyclists unite to support mental health for Israeli youth

“The Geerz Israel Charity Ride is more than a fundraiser; it’s a celebration of the community coming together to support the resilience and success of our youth,” says Nachum Wasosky.

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