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Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip during the IDF’s “Gideon’s Chariots” campaign, May 2025. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

IDF strikes over 100 terror sites in Gaza as ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ ramps up

JNS Staff

Netanyahu: World spreading ‘starving Palestinian children’ lie

JNS Staff

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

From the BLM riots to the DC shooting in five short years

In UK, Jewish protester charged over placard mocking Nasrallah

JNS Staff

U.S. CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi in Israel, Nov. 11, 2019. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

Yaakov Lappin

Threaten Iran’s nuclear and energy sectors, ex-CENTCOM chief tells JNS

AJC holds online memorial for murdered Israeli embassy staffers

Jonathan D. Salant

IDF hits 15 Hezbollah terror sites in Lebanon

JNS Staff

Terror stabbing thwarted in Hebron

JNS Staff

Georgian man extradited to US for planning mass attack in NYC

JNS Staff

Kingsley Wilson, Pentagon press secretary. Credit: U.S. Department of Defense.

Pentagon promotes press sec who parrots ‘neo-Nazi playbook,’ AJC tells JNS

Andrew Bernard

US, Iran report ‘some but not conclusive progress’ in Rome talks

JNS Staff

Trump administration drops sanctions on Syria

JNS Staff

Guterres blames looting of Gazan aid on low supplies, though Hamas often steals aid

Mike Wagenheim

Boost federal nonprofit security grants to $500m, Gottheimer tells JNS

Jonathan D. Salant

12 hours ago

Threaten Iran’s nuclear and energy sectors, ex-CENTCOM chief tells JNS

Yaakov Lappin

13 hours ago

Georgian man extradited to US for planning mass attack in NYC

JNS Staff

14 hours ago

In UK, Jewish protester charged over placard mocking Nasrallah

JNS Staff

15 hours ago

US, Iran report ‘some but not conclusive progress’ in Rome talks

JNS Staff

17 hours ago

IDF strikes over 100 terror sites in Gaza as ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ ramps up

JNS Staff

18 hours ago

Terror stabbing thwarted in Hebron

JNS Staff

23 hours ago

IDF hits 15 Hezbollah terror sites in Lebanon

JNS Staff

24 hours ago

IAF downs Palestinian terror rocket from Gaza

JNS Staff

May 23, 2025

AJC holds online memorial for murdered Israeli embassy staffers

Jonathan D. Salant

May 23, 2025

Trump administration drops sanctions on Syria

JNS Staff

May 23, 2025

‘BBC,’ ‘NBC’ repeat outrageous lie about starving Gazan babies

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

May 22, 2025

America is back as the ‘strong horse’ in the Mideast

Jonathan S. Tobin

May 22, 2025

Mount of Olives: Inside Israel’s oldest Jewish cemetery

Josh Hasten

May 22, 2025

European leaders play defense for Hamas

Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev

May 22, 2025

What’s the IDF’s strategy to defeat Hamas in Gaza?

Alex Traiman and Josh Hasten

May 20, 2025

IDF general throws Israel’s soldiers under the bus

Daniel Seaman

May 20, 2025

Israel begins final stage of Gaza war

Meira Kolatch

May 15, 2025

How Oct. 7 revealed Israel’s true friends in America

Jonathan S. Tobin

May 14, 2025

No wedge between Trump and Netanyahu

Daniel Seaman

May 14, 2025

Trump’s Middle East gamble: What does it mean for Israel?

Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev

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.

HHS concludes Columbia violated civil-rights law, will refer case to Justice if school doesn’t comply

JNS Staff

Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Pixabay.

Harvard wins restraining order against Trump admin over student visas

Andrew Bernard

Security officer in uniform. Credit: Kindel Media/Pexels.

Increase national security funding to $1b, US Jewish groups urge federal gov

Vita Fellig

Rabbi Ari Berman, the president of Yeshiva University, speaks at the school's 2025 commencement at Louis Armstrong Stadium, at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in Queens, May 22, 2025. Credit: Yeshiva University.

Over objection of some faculty, Yeshiva awards highest honor to Stefanik at graduation

Emily Goldberg

View of Los Angeles. Credit: RJA1988/Pixabay.

Former LA public safety official pleads guilty to fake bomb threat

Nuclear talks stay focused on no Iranian uranium enrichment, per State Dept

Mike Wagenheim

Kristi Noem, the U.S. secretary of homeland security, testifies before a House Committee Homeland Security Hearing, May 14, 2025. Credit: Tia Dufour/U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

US revokes Harvard’s student visas

Andrew Bernard

Microsoft fires staffer who protested AI tech sold to IDF

JNS Staff

10 Dems in Congress decry ‘all forms of hate’ after antisemitic murder in DC

JNS Staff

An Orthodox volunteer collects blood and other bodily remains off the sidewalk at the shooting location outside of the Capital Jewish Museum on May 22, 2025. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images.

Grim work, righteous anger and political resolve amid mourning at murder scene in Washington, DC

Mike Wagenheim

Senate unanimously approves resolution commemorating Jewish Heritage Month

Jonathan D. Salant

Apparent manifesto of alleged DC shooter found, FBI raids Chicago home

Andrew Bernard

Mixed bag for school choice advocates at Supreme Court, House

JNS Staff

Terror forces at work at UN while blood of Israeli embassy staffers ‘not yet dry,’ Danon says

JNS Staff

Israeli gov takes control of Manhattan apartment registered to Netanyahu for 40 years

Mike Wagenheim

INSIDE ISRAEL

IAF downs Palestinian terror rocket from Gaza

JNS Staff

Israel Kasnett

Israel’s aid plan for Gaza is rife with challenges

Douglas Murray: Israel can’t afford to leave Hamas in Gaza

Canaan Lidor

The groups vying for control of Gaza post-Hamas

Shachar Kleiman

Family of slain policeman sues Palestinian Authority for $15.5m

JNS Staff

A child who said he was sent by Hamas is greeted by Israeli soldiers at an IDF post in the Gaza Strip on March 11, 2025. Credit: IDF.

Hamas casualty numbers ‘deliberately fabricated,’ new analysis reveals

David Isaac

Lilach Shoval

Monster in plain sight: How Israel missed the Houthi threat

Freed hostage Doron Asher-Katz and her daughters, aged 4 and 6, leaving an Israeli Air Force helicopter, Nov. 24, 2023. Source: doronkatzasher/Instagram.

Freed Israeli abductee launches fundraiser for ‘chance to rebuild’

JNS Staff

Outgoing Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz at the ministry in Jerusalem, Nov. 10, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Katz suspends Golan from reserve duty following ‘killing babies’ remark

JNS Staff

A visitor inspects Keter Yom Yakir, one of the 12 Damascus Crowns, on exhibition at the National Library of Israel. Photo by Sharon Altshul.

Smuggled secrets and sacred scripts from Syria

Sharon Altshul

IDF officer marks bar mitzvah in Rafah synagogue

JNS Staff

A New Israel Fund ad. Credit: NIF.org.

New Israel Fund fundraises for Gazans

David Isaac

WORLD

Swedish MEP assaulted as European Parliament debates Gaza

Yossi Lempkowicz

Hungary approves exit from International Criminal Court

JNS Staff

Auschwitz launches digital replica of camp for filmmakers

JNS Staff

Minyan Everest climbers with their Torah scroll atop Mera Peak in northeastern Nepal, May 6, 2025. Credit: Minyan Everest.

‘Minyan Everest’: French mountaineers bring solidarity to new heights

Amelie Botbol

Violence erupts during a pro-Palestinian rally in Berlin, May 15, 2025. Photo by Stefan Frank/ Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images.

In first, German intelligence agency labels BDS ‘hostile to constitution’

Akiva Van Koningsveld

A Palestinian flag with the inscription "Gaza" flutters during a memorial service held on City Hall Square in Copenhagen, on Oct. 27, 2023. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images.

Danish man charged with terror plot involving drones for Hamas

Joshua Marks

Austria launching Israel parliamentary caucus

Etgar Lefkovits

UK lawmakers renew demand to ban IRGC after spy charges against Iranians

JNS Staff

Jordanian textbooks justify Hamas Oct. 7 massacre

Etgar Lefkovits

Jamie Geller’s quest for the perfect cheesecake

Raphael Poch

Turkish citizen to be tried for visiting Israel

Etgar Lefkovits

Spanish Jewish leader wants EU legal action on anti-Israel vice premier

Canaan Lidor

Palestinian who livestreamed illegal UK entry jailed

JNS Staff

‘BBC’ pundit Lineker to step down after antisemitic post

JNS Staff

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Black Lives Matter protest. Credit: Shane Aldendorff/Pixabay.

Jonathan S. Tobin

From the BLM riots to the DC shooting in five short years

How Oct. 7 revealed Israel’s true friends in America

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Heather Johnston, Ep. 177

Jonathan S. Tobin

Anti-Israel demonstrators hold a rally and march to the national headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to protest the arrest of Palestinian activists, as well as Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, April 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Domestic terror inevitable next step for Hamas sympathizers

SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

A pro-Palestinian rally in Barcelona, Spain, on Jan. 7, 2024. Credit: Aniol via Wikimedia Commons.

Fiamma Nirenstein

An upside-down Europe

Mourners gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C., for a vigil in memorial of the two victims of the Capital Jewish Museum shooting on May 21, Israeli embassy staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, May 22, 2025. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

Ruthie Blum

The tragic naiveté of liberal Jews

As many as 200 people took part in a demonstration outside of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, protesting the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip and holding signs reading “Free Gaza,” “Free Palestine” and waving Palestinian flags, Dec. 29, 2008. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Flash90.

Melanie Phillips

Blood on their hands

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world

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Douglas Altabef

License to kill

Danny Danon

On Sunday, we celebrated

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese tzaddik

Donna Robinson Divine

Palestinians as victims, but of whom and of what?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Money buys influence

Yisrael Medad

A two-state solution was never an option

Nadav Steinman

Canada must say no to the ICC’s flawed arrest warrant for Netanyahu

Eric Levine

Like two peas in a pod

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

The creeping dangers of AI: A Jewish perspective

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Kayla Gubov

Democrats have abandoned the fight against campus antisemitism

Daniel Friedman

Pope Leo XIV, AI and Israel

Khaled Abu Toameh

How Arabs see Trump’s ‘separate peace’ with Islamists

Star of David. Credit: NadineDoerle/Pixabay.

featured column

Stephen M. Flatow

The alarming surge of antisemitism in America

And what it portends for the country and its Jewish population.

Police tape cordons off the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., after the shooting of Israeli Embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, following an evening event hosted by the American Jewish Committee, May 21, 2025. Credit: Sdkb via Wikimedia Commons.

Yuval David

Tears in DC, a prayer for our future

After my speech, Yaron Lischinsky approached me. He was thoughtful, insightful, kind, handsome. Twenty-four hours later, he was gone.

“The Finding of Moses,” oil on canvas painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1904. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

Jeremy Davis

Embody the words of Moses: ‘Here I am’

Leonard Grunstein

No ‘HELP’ needed

Karen Bekker

Joe Rogan and the death of expertise

Natalie Sopinsky

Burden or privilege? Caring for the land

Joel Fishman

Israel’s latest war front follows Lenin’s path of utilizing discontent

featured column

Mitchell Bard

Is Trump pulling an Obama on nukes?

Shmuel Katz

Evil must be exposed, marginalized and eliminated

Jason Shvili

Trump’s Mideast moves rattle Israel but don’t betray the Jewish state

Yuval Haberman

Lag B’Omer lessons for responsible investing

featured column

Moshe Phillips

Jerusalem Day and the lie of ‘East Jerusalem’

Karen Feldman

Radicals are hijacking United Federation of Teachers

Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander

Army service as the antidote to the mourning of the Omer

featured column

Gabe Groisman

Can Trump’s economic diplomacy reshape the Middle East?

JNS WIRE

Press releases from around the Jewish world

Wire

Yuval Raphael, Israel's contestant for the Eurovision Song Contest and a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The enduring spirit of the Jewish people: From trauma to triumph

Despite facing unimaginable trauma, Israeli survivors of Oct. 7 are sharing their painful experiences through activism, singing and painting—and refusing to take life for granted.

The Focus Project

Students at Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles. Credit: Courtesy.

‘We’re not just raising Jewish children’

Our mission is to to raise confident and proud Jewish adults who will shape the future with wisdom, courage and joy.

Sinai Akiba Academy

The Odem Mountain Winery visitor center in the Golan Heights in 2022. Credit: Courtesy of the Heritage Conservation Outside the City/Pikiwiki Israel via Wikimedia Commons.

History in a bottle

Odem Mountain is the first Israeli winery invited to James Suckling’s “Great Wines World New York” event.

Royal Wine Corp

Jewish Agency shlichim attend the Israel Day Parade in New York. Photo by Jennifer Roman for The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Jewish Agency ‘shlichim’ march in the Israel Day parade in New York

"Today, in the heart of New York City, we witnessed the power of a united community," said Mark Wilf, chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors.

A group arrives to Israel from the United States for a summer Birthright experience, May 19, 2025. Credit: Birthright Israel.

Birthright kicks off summer season, welcoming more than 20,000 participants

“I’m excited to explore my culture here in Israel through many different lenses and to experience a society built to accommodate my Jewish identity,” said Evan Fennessey, a student at Florida State University.

Birthright Israel