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Hamas terrorists amid a transfer of four bodies of Israeli hostages, whom Hamas murdered, to Israel, Gaza, Feb. 20, 2025. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
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People hold signs as they protest the arrest of former Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil and show support for Palestinians during a “Fight for Our Rights” demonstration by Shut It Down for Palestine (SID4P) and various local groups at the University of Washington campus in Seattle on March 15, 2025. Photo by Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images.
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U.S. Central Command operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen on March 15, 2025. Credit: CENTCOM.
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Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), of the House Appropriations Committee, asks questions of U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla L. Provost during a hearing on border patrol oversight, July 24, 2019. Credit: Glenn Fawcett/U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., March 5, 2016. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.
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Illustrative image of a cyber attack. Credit: TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay.
Israel extradites developer of ‘one of most prolific’ cybercrime groups to US
U.S. Central Command operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen on March 15, 2025. Credit: CENTCOM.
US attacks Houthi targets across Yemen
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Pro-Palestinian activists hold a Friday prayer service and demonstration outside the gates of Columbia University in Manhattan on March 14, 2025. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images.
Columbia University searched for illegal alien anti-Israel activists
Dubai chocolate. Credit: Courtesy of Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami.
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Anna Rahmanan
5 years ‘receivership’ for Mid East program to get $400m back, Trump admin tells Columbia
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South African envoy ‘no longer welcome’ in US, Rubio says
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks with the press in La Malnaie, Quebec, March 14, 2025. Credit: Freddie Everett/U.S. State Department.
ICE arrests Columbia pro-Hamas student, another self-deports
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Parliament Hill Ottawa, Canada, on Aug. 22, 2019. Credit: Ron Przysucha/U.S. State Department.
A tale of three Canadian officials’ Purim comments
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INSIDE ISRAEL

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi holds a press conference at the Palmachim Airbase south of Tel Aviv on July 14, 2024. Credit: IDF.
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The Iron Beam system in action. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry.
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Friends and relatives of the victims gather in front of a hospital following a fire in a nightclub which killed 51 people in Kocani, a town some 100 kilometers east of the capital Skopje, on March 16, 2025. Photo: Robert Atanasovski/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel to send medical experts to North Macedonia after deadly fire
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Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely speaks at an event at the London School of Economics on Nov. 10, 2021. Source: Tzipi Hotovely/X.
Jewish students in UK prep for university, expect antisemitism
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Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter as an air-raid siren sounds in Tel Aviv, Oct. 26, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Nearly half of Israeli young adults suffering from PTSD, study shows
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Houthi supporters chant anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans in Sanaa, Yemen, on Feb. 14, 2025. Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images.
IDF confirms missile launch from Yemen
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Israeli forces foil shooting plot in Jerusalem’s Old City
A photo from the weapons storage facility in Nur Shams, released on March 16, 2025. Credit: IDF.
IDF discovers UNRWA vest in weapons cache during Samaria raid
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.
Netanyahu OKs talks based on US proposal to free 11 living hostages
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A United Airlines flight on approach to Harry Reid International Airport, formerly McCarran International Airport, in Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 13, 2018. Photo by Noah Wulf via Wikimedia Commons.
United Airlines restarts flights to Israel
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Israel and Azerbaijan to ink strategic energy agreement
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Tevel 2 project students testing environmental conditions at the satellite laboratory at Tel Aviv University. Photo by Ronen Horesh.
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SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Left-wing Israeli activists protest against the war, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and IDF operations in Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, March 12, 2025. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
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The deadly ‘conceptzia’ is alive and well
Adam Boehler, the U.S. envoy for hostage affairs, speaks at the U.S. State Department, on March 6, 2025. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images.
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Missteps by US envoy are followed by a firm stance on freeing the hostages
A view of cars charred by Hamas terrorists during the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, at a field near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, Nov. 26, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.
Melanie Phillips
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Melanie Phillips
The West is facing an Islamic holy war

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world
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Mahmoud Khalil case
Mordechai Kedar
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Iran, its adversaries and the Middle Corridor
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It’s time to abolish the UN’s pro-Hamas bureaucracy
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Hadara Ishak
The cost of complacency
Nicholas Woode-Smith. Credit: Courtesy.
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
‘Hague Group’ requires some scrutiny
Mitchell Bard
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Democrats still wobbly on antisemitism
opinion
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann
The gallows, the tunnels and the tree: Hidden miracles from Persia to Gaza
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Raphael BenLevi
Victory now, peace with Arab world later
James Sinkinson
opinion
James Sinkinson
Israel’s maximum pressure on Hamas can free the hostages and end the war
Virag Gulyas. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Virag Gulyas
Despite rhetoric from the left, US law applies to green-card holders
Robert Silverman
opinion
Robert Silverman
Trump’s Gaza plan: A change of narrative
opinion
Yoni Ben Menachem
Israel redraws borders in Syria and Lebanon
Israeli and Azerbaijani flags at the Baku Summit of World Religious Leaders. Credit: Akos Nagy.
Martin Sherman
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Martin Sherman
The alliance that alarms the ayatollahs
As Iran inches closer to its desired doomsday weapon, the rationale for a countervailing tri-axial alliance between America, Israel and Azerbaijan has never been more compelling.
Hezbollah in Lebanon carry the coffin of slain member Hussein Amhaz during his funeral in Baalbek, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on Sept. 19, 2024. Hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon in unprecedented attacks that spanned two days, killing 32 people and wounding more than 3,000 others. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.
Sarah N. Stern
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Sarah N. Stern
Something has changed …
Despite tremendous costs on the individual level, Israelis know they are here to stay in the Middle East.
Protests in the Thomas Paine Park in New York City against the detention of activist and former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, on March 10, 2025. Credit: SWinxy via Wikimedia Commons.
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Brandy Shufutinsky
When speech turns into conduct
Phyllis Chesler
opinion
Phyllis Chesler
How the West was won, and how it can be saved
Margaux Jubin. Credit: Courtesy.
opinion
Margaux Jubin
Khalil’s arrest is about law and order
Eric Levine
opinion
Eric Levine
Who protects Jewish students in First Amendment battles?
Rabbi Chaim Goldberg. Credit: Courtesy.
opinion
Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Purim for every IDF soldier
opinion
Joseph Puder
The US State Department’s hostility toward Israel
Kamal Alam. Credit: Courtesy.
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Kamal Alam
Syrian Jews could hold the key to peace
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Joseph Frager
Gateway to a reimagined Gaza Strip
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Opinion
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Behind the mask
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opinion
Chaya Yosovich
Jewish education amid unprecedented antisemitism
Steve Rosenberg
Opinion
Steve Rosenberg
Woke indoctrination is destroying schools
Khalifa Khalifa. Credit: Courtesy. Brett Kaufman. Credit: Courtesy.
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Khalifa Khalifa, Brett Kaufman
Druze sovereignty in Syria in America’s, Israel’s best interest
opinion
Daniel Greenfield
Jews protest deporting Hamas supporter

WORLD

The beach promenade in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, Feb. 3, 2025. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
BBC apologizes for footage of Israeli city in report on ‘settlements’
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The emissaries to Kharkiv turned rescue operators for Ukrainian Jews
Etgar Lefkovits
Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime (left), Mohammad Comrie (center) and Faiz Shah (right) were convicted of the attempted kidnapping of Israeli music producer Itay Kashti on Aug. 24, 2024. Credit: Dyfed-Powys Police.
UK: Trio convicted for kidnap attempt of Israeli music producer
JNS Staff
An anti-Israel rally in Dublin on Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: Sinn Féin via Wikimedia Commons.
‘Zionists are not welcome’: Israeli spat on in Dublin eatery
No one intervened in the altercation.
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Jewish National Fund offices in London vandalized by Palestine Action, Nov. 2, 2024. Source: Palestine Action/X.
UK group causes millions in damage to Israel-linked firms
JNS Staff
Uzbekistan’s textbooks highlight tolerance and Jewish history, report finds
Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans and his attorneys at the Gent Correctional Court, on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by James Arthur Gekiere/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images.
Jewish groups alarmed by Belgian ruling acquitting Brusselmans
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JNS WIRE

Press releases from around the Jewish world
Wire
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at $23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Wire
American Jewish University invests in TOV ETF, strengthening values-based investing
The newly launched exchange-traded fund is managed by JLens and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TOV—a nod to the Hebrew word for “good."
American Jewish University
OU executive vice president and COO Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph (left) and OU executive vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer shared the OU’s strategy and vision for addressing the Jewish community’s ongoing needs and advancing communal solutions. Credit: Courtesy.
Wire
OU marks 125 years of building a religiously vibrant community
Orthodox Union's celebrates its milestone anniversary and its work supporting Jewish life, innovation and community growth at its biennial convention and gala.
Orthodox Union
Dr. Betsy Stone presents a workshop on “Promoting Growth Through Embracing Struggle." Photo by Jill Goldstein Smith, Foundation for Jewish Camp.
Wire
The Jewish Education Project conference highlights mental-health challenges faced by teens
The keynote address focused on how families can find balance in their relationship with technology for the benefit of our teens and ourselves.
The Jewish Education Project
Gratz College's Jenkintown headquarters has office space and room for small community gatherings. Photo by Brian Kroker, Lindy Properties.
Wire
Gratz College solidifies plans on both sides of the Schuylkill River
With new sites in Jenkintown and Bala Cynwyd on the horizon, officials say this is an "exciting time" for the college.
Gratz College
“Esther Before Ahasuerus,” oil on canvas, by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1547. Credit: Royal Collection, United Kingdom via Wikimedia Commons.
Wire
From ancient Persia to modern American campuses, echoes of Purim reverberate
As Jews worldwide celebrate the holiday, they are reminded that the fight against hatred is a continuous struggle.
The Focus Project

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