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Israeli police at the border fence with Syria, near the northern Israeli town of Majdal Shams, on Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Netanyahu warns Syrian regime against giving Iran foothold in country
JNS Staff
Residents in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights celebrate after rebels took over Syria from the Bashar Assad regime, Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Jonathan S. Tobin. Photo by Tzipora Lifchitz.
from the editor-in-chief
Jonathan S. Tobin
Trump should trust his instincts and ignore the Syria ‘experts’
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Tikvah Fund Jewish Leadership Conference in New York City on Dec. 8, 2024. Photo by Sean T. Smith/Simon Luethi via Tikvah Fund.
Time of essence in response to Iran, former Israeli, US diplomats say
Mike Wagenheim
IAF F-35 stealth fighter aircraft fly in Israeli airspace. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
IDF hit over 300 Syrian targets, ‘effectively wiping out air force’
‘No reason to question’ Israeli claim of interim presence on Syrian side of Golan, US says
Mike Wagenheim
Photos that the U.S. government says Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, took of himself as part of his alleged effort to join Hezbollah. Source: U.S. Justice Department.
Pittsburgh man ‘idolized’ anti-Jewish violence, tried to join Hezbollah, US says
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‘No reason to question’ Israeli claim of interim presence on Syrian side of Golan, US says
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Pittsburgh man ‘idolized’ anti-Jewish violence, tried to join Hezbollah, Justice Department says
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Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Mullah worries
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Tel Aviv to hold three-day jazz festival
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Troops of the Israeli Air Force's elite Shaldag unit on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.
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analysis
Yaakov Lappin
Israel ‘likely used heavy munitions’ in Syria strikes
A view of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Google Maps.
Suspected bomb found outside Cape Town Jewish center
Canaan Lidor
The Swedish flag over Stockholm. Credit: Stefan Lins via Flickr.
Swedish ISIS brothers planned attacks on synagogues after conversion to Islam
Palestinian fighters in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, during a patrol in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 27, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
IDF eliminates Gaza terrorists who killed three soldiers
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With Trump’s return, will Abraham Accords make a comeback?
Nadav Shragai

US & CANADA NEWS

The exhibit "Gaza, Palestine: A Crisis of Humanity, a Cry for Justice" at United Nations headquarters in New York, Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Vita Fellig.
No mention of Hamas in Gaza ‘justice’ photo show at UN headquarters
Vita Fellig
Filming for the documentary "Dying to Live." Credit: Courtesy.
Documentary views Oct. 7 attacks via non-Jewish eyes
Dave Gordon
Adam Kwasman is sworn in as a member of the Scottsdale City Council in Arizona on his family's copy of a Hebrew Bible published by the late renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as his wife Orit Kwasman looks on, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Adam Kwasman.
Orthodox Jewish Arizona council member uses family Bible for swearing-in ceremony
Vita Fellig
Protesters burn an American flag outside of Union Station in Washington, D.C., following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address during a joint session of Congress on July 24, 2024. Photo by Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images.
Legislators confront People’s Forum for ‘well-documented connections to Hamas and Iran’
An image from Hadassah's Antisemitism Report. Credit: Courtesy.
Two-thirds of women surveyed feel impact of Jew-hatred, Hadassah finds
University of Michigan regent’s home vandalized for third time by pro-Palestinian activists
House Republican Israel Caucus co-chair Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) speaks during a news conference to talk about the military conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza outside the U.S. Capitol on May 19, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Retiring Colorado congressman to be feted for faith-based support of Israel
Etgar Lefkovits
Anglo-Israeli public diplomacy professionals, activists and Israel-U.S. relations experts attend the Yesha Council's "Policy Opportunities for the Israel-US Relationship" conference at the Psagot Winery in Binyamin, Dec. 4, 2024. Credit: Yesha Council.
Policymakers aim to enhance US-Israel relations during Trump term
Josh Hasten
Victoria Coates poses with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), her former boss, at the signing of the Abraham Accords at the White House. Photo by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), courtesy of Victoria Coates.
Former national security official pens book to ‘arm’ Americans with answers to why Israel matters
Menachem Wecker
Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Financial Development Corporation, Adam Boehler (L), flanked by U.S. Special Envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Richard Grenel, speaks during a press conference with Kosovo Prime Minister in Pristina, on Sept. 21, 2020. Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images.
Trump envoy: ‘He wants the hostages, and he will get them’
Ariel Kahana
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Tel Aviv, Dec. 14, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.
Sullivan to head to Israel for meeting with Netanyahu
DC synagogue cancels event featuring former Israeli defense minister amid security threat
Andrew Bernard
A basketball team comprised of Israeli high school teens who survived the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, reunited to play at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles on a trip to the United States from late September to early October 2024. Photo by Izzy Salant.
They survived Oct. 7 … now they’re playing basketball in Los Angeles
Izzy Salant
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaking at inaugural convening against antisemitism at Anti-Hate in Education Center in New York City on Dec. 5, 2024. Credit: Center for Jewish History.
Anti-Hate in Education Center in New York to grapple with bias, bigotry
The main building of Crown College in Minnesota. Credit: Clappert via Wikimedia Commons.
Parents back in court after Minnesota pre-college program exlcudes faith-based schools
A billboard against antisemitism in America put up by JewBelong. Credit: Courtesy.
JewBelong to put up antisemitism awareness billboards during holidays
Former President Donald Trump at an “Arizona for Trump” rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., on Aug. 23, 2024. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.
Trump wants Netanyahu to end war, but ‘you have to have a victory’

INSIDE ISRAEL

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court, Dec. 10, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Netanyahu begins testimony in corruption trial
Israel Defense Forces troops enter Syrian territory, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: IDF.
IDF denies reports ground troops 16 miles from Damascus
An ambulance evacuates civilians wounded in a terrorist attack in the Jordan Valley to Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, March 28, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel Police investigating possible terror motive in Karmiel stabbing
Pope Francis is welcomed by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, May 25, 2014. Photo by Atta Jaber/Flash90.
Abbas set to meet Pope Francis at Vatican
European Commissioner-designate for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner attends a hearing in the European Parliament on Nov. 4, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images.
EU commissioner: ‘No justification for any form of antisemitism’
Yossi Lempkowicz
Prof. Ofer Marder, Prof. Israel Hershkovitz and Dr. Omry Barzilai in the Manot Cave. Credit: Omry Barzilai.
Galilee cave discovery sheds light on first cases of communal worship
Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: IDF.
Three soldiers killed in Gaza, IDF toll hits 816
Katz orders IDF to create security zone beyond Syrian border
Akiva Van Koningsveld, Amelie Botbol
FM Sa’ar: IAF hit suspected chemical arms sites in Syria
Doron Almog, chairman of the Jewish Agency, attends a memorial ceremony for IDF soldiers who died in the Battle of Tel Saki during the Yom Kippur War, at the Tel Saki Memorial Site near Moshav Ramat Magshimim on the Golan Heights, Sept. 27, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
‘I’m mortal, but Am Israel Chai is eternal’
Jewish Agency chairman Doron Almog, who had family members killed and abducted in the Oct. 7 massacre, shares the path he sees to recovery.
Hanan Greenwood
‘Eruption of a dam’: An IDF reservist fights Hezbollah in Lebanon
Natan Galula
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference on the situation on various warfronts, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO.
PM: ‘We’re dismantling the Iranian axis piece by piece’
David Isaac
Wilders: Netanyahu has done more to combat terror since Oct. 7 than Europe in seven decades
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends the Great Conference of Basij members at Azadi stadium in Tehran, Oct. 4, 2018. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Israeli indicted for acting on behalf of Iran for thousands of dollars
Natan Galula
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in the southern Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
‘NY Times’ confirms Hamas presence in UN schools
JNS Staff
Ruby Chen, the father of Sgt. Itay Chen,19, whose body has been held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since he was killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, invasion, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2024. Photo by Amelie Botbol.
Israel denies report hostage deal in ‘advanced stage’
Amelie Botbol, Natan Galula
IDF operational activity in the Gaza Strip. Credit: IDF.
Israeli prosecutors file first charges against Gaza terrorists since Oct. 7
Chana Simon (second left) with RE-SPECS staff. Credit: Courtesy.
RE-SPECS: Helping Israelis see light after Oct. 7 darkness
Amelie Botbol

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Residents in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights celebrate after rebels took over Syria from the Bashar Assad regime, Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Jonathan S. Tobin. Photo by Tzipora Lifchitz.
the column
Jonathan S. Tobin
Trump should trust his instincts and ignore the Syria ‘experts’
video
BlueAnon: Left’s conspiracy theories target Jews
“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest David Harsanyi, Ep. 157
Jonathan S. Tobin
U.S. President Joe Biden walks out of Nantucket Bookworks with his son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Mass., on Nov. 29, 2024. He is carrying the book “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images.
Jonathan S. Tobin. Photo by Tzipora Lifchitz.
the column
Jonathan S. Tobin
Biden’s reading doesn’t matter, false Palestinian narrative does

WORLD

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Credit: Australian Government via Wikimedia Commons.
Australian prime minister calls torching of Melbourne synagogue ‘terrorism’
Canaan Lidor
Police searching for three suspects in Melbourne synagogue ‘terror attack’
Report: Incidents of Jew-hate up 316% in Australia
Receiving honors in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Romanian government for their longtime work in building the Eastern European country’s democracy and combating antisemitism are (from left) Mark Levin, executive vice chairman and CEO of the National Coalition for Supporting Eurasian Jewry; Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International; and Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee, Dec. 2, 2024. Credit: LucyJo Photography.
Romania bestows honor upon trio of longtime American Jewish leaders who tackle antisemitism
Mike Wagenheim
Tens of thousands of people participate in the March Against Antisemitism in London, on Dec. 8, 2024. Photo by Stuart Mitchell/Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Thousands march against rising Jew-hatred in UK
The U.K. government “must finally act against hate before it’s too late,” a representative from the Campaign Against Antisemitism told JNS.
Faygie Holt
Visualization of Golda Meir Park in Kyiv. Credit: Kyiv City Council.
Kyiv approves Golda Meir Park in historical center
David Isaac
Macron announces French-Saudi conference for Palestinian state
A PLO flag flutters in the wind after it was raised in the courtyard outside City Hall in Oslo on Nov. 29, 2023. Photo by Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/AFP via Getty Images.
Norwegian fund divests from Bezeq over Judea and Samaria service
JNS Staff
A scene from "Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque." Source: Screenshot.
Computer game that glorifies Hamas pulled offline in UK
Canaan Lidor
European parliamentarians meet in Brussels in an effort to have Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps designated as a terrorist organization, Dec. 4, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.
European lawmakers renew push to list the IRGC as terror group
Etgar Lefkovits
Chanukiyah with oil candles. Credit: Ri-Ya/Pixabay.
UK Chanukah initiative to ‘shine light’ on hostages in Gaza
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Only survivor of 6,000 Jewish children deported from France dies, aged 97
David Isaac

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Temple University resolves federal civil-rights probe for alleged anti-Jewish bias
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SJP distributes anti-Israel publication on Columbia campus
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SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

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OPINION

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Douglas Altabef
The ascension of a Jewish political philosophy
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The ICC’s illegitimate, antisemitic ruling against Israel
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America is silent about Christian girls kidnapped by Islamists
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China’s attempts at Mideast diplomacy is faced with reliance on Iranian oil
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The murder of a Chabad rabbi puts peace at risk
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‘Let this truth serve … ’
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Dennis Ross is on television and in news articles offering unsolicited advice to Israel. But from 1993 to 1994, he was a source of hot air.
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Ronn Torossian
The ‘heroes’ who destroyed a Nazi mural in Milwaukee should be lauded
Many Jews realize that governments aren’t protecting us, and we must stand up to haters.
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‘We are changing the face of the Mideast’
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Thane Rosenbaum
A tale of two presidencies
Shoshana Bryen
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Shoshana Bryen
Where we’ve been, and why it matters
Sarah Levin
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Sarah Levin
The time for California Gov. Newsom to adopt IHRA is now
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If the war against Hezbollah isn't won decisively, Israel's northern residents will find themselves back in the same precarious position within a decade, according to IDF Maj. (res.) Gilad Ach, a co-founder of the "Reservists-Generation of Victory" non-profit.
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Dec. 9, 2024
A basketball team comprised of Israeli high school teens who survived the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, reunited to play at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles on a trip to the United States from late September to early October 2024. Photo by Izzy Salant.
They survived Oct. 7 … now they’re playing basketball in Los Angeles
A team of Israeli high-schoolers from kibbutzim in the Gaza Envelope came to Los Angeles and were received with open arms by the community.
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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham chief Abu Mohammad al-Julani checks the damage following an earthquake in Besnaya, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib Province at the border with Turkey, on Feb. 7, 2023. Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images.
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris react while high school senior and youth leader DuWayne Portis Jr. delivers remarks at a Black History Month reception on Feb. 27, 2023 in the East Room of the White House. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.
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U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Vice President Kamala Harris along the West Colonnade of the White House to the Oval Office on May 26, 2023. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.
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AEPi's 111th annual convention in Miami from July 24-28, 2024. Source: Screenshot/AEPi Facebook.
Wire
AEPi and CSS provide advanced security training for students
Alpha Epsilon Pi International Fraternity has launched a partnership with the Community Security Service to provide AEPi members with security training.
AEPi,
Community Security Service
ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran’s inclusive gardening team harvests a crop of organic and insect-free strawberries on the annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Credit: ADI.
Wire
Israeli gardeners with disabilities make strawberries acessible to all
ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran’s gardening team has cultivated an impressive crop of organic and insect-free fruit, making beloved berries accessible to the ultra-Orthodox community.
ADI
Thorne Hall at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Credit: The Port of Authority via Wikimedia Commons.
Wire
Cover blown: Targeting ‘Zionists’ is targeting Jews
No religious or ethnic group should be villainized and left alone to fight battles about their very existence.
The Focus Project
Volunteers from abroad help with manifold needs in Israel while it fights Hamas to the south and Hezbollah to the north, one of many programs associated with Birthright Israel. Credit: Courtesy of Birthright Israel.
Wire
Birthright Israel expands age limit of volunteer program to 50 in 2025
The increase in 10 years—from 40 to 50—is driven by several key factors, including more than a year of war to Israel's north and south.
Birthright Israel
For Naaleh students, the OU relief mission to Asheville constituted so much more than fixing homes. Credit: Courtesy.
Wire
Orthodox Union relief missions sends 10th group to North Carolina since Hurricane Helene
Naaleh High School for Girls was the first school to participate in the OU’s missions to New Orleans and North Carolina following destructive hurricanes.
Orthodox Union,
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