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Israeli Air Force fighter jets taking off ahead of strikes in Tehran in June 2025. Credit: IDF.

Israel strikes Tehran centrifuge site in major air assault

Joshua Marks

IDF Staff Sgt. Stav Halfon. Credit: IDF.

IDF soldier KIA in Gaza’s south, increasing military wartime toll to 871

JNS Staff

Sa’ar explains need for ‘Operation Rising Lion’ to UN Security Council

Mike Wagenheim

Iranians in central Tehran hold pictures of Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps slain by Israel, as they gather for a protest against Israel's wave of airstrikes on Iran, June 13, 2025. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Iran needs regime change, but that can’t be the goal

Rocket fired from Gaza at Israel for second night

JNS Staff

Man reported wounded in latest Iranian nighttime barrage on Israeli civilians

JNS Staff

France, Germany, UK, EU tell Israel, Iran to de-escalate, Tehran to return to nuclear talks

Mike Wagenheim

GHF denounces false media narrative of Palestinians killed at distribution site

Iran launches two missile barrages at Israel overnight

JNS Staff

Sa’ar hits back at Turkey’s pres over ‘Hitler’ comment

David Isaac

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‘Time for moral clarity,’ Republican politicians say after Israelis mistreated at Paris event

Mike Wagenheim

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‘Striking ayatollahs with great force’: Netanyahu updates nation on Iran war

David Isaac

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US embassy in Israel sends urgent notice about evacuation of US citizens

Mike Wagenheim

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‘Go burn in an oven’: Florida man charged with antisemitic threats

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IDF soldier KIA in Gaza’s south, increasing military wartime toll to 871

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JNS Staff

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US Holocaust Museum accuses Mamdani of ‘exploiting’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Vita Fellig

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France, Germany, UK, EU tell Israel, Iran to de-escalate, Tehran to return to nuclear talks

Mike Wagenheim

3 hours ago

GHF denounces false media narrative of Palestinians killed at distribution site

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Man reported wounded in latest Iranian nighttime barrage on Israeli civilians

JNS Staff

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Trump: Patience with Iran has run out, ‘very late’ for renewed nuclear talks

JNS Staff

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Mike Wagenheim

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U.S. Army Capt. Nathan McCormack from Dallas, Texas, holds a meeting at Sheik Mohammad Hasan Falah's house about the economy of Al Butoma, Iraq, on Dec. 15, 2008. Credit: Sgt. Kani Ronningen/U.S. Army photo.

Pentagon removing Israel planner from Joint Staff, launching probe after JNS scoop

Andrew Bernard

The river entrance of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., April 24, 2025. Credit: U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza/U.S. Department of Defense.

Chief Israel planner at Pentagon bashes Jewish state publicly, extensively

Andrew Bernard

New York state representative Zohran Mamdani at the “Resist Fascism Rally” in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, on Oct 27, 2024. Credit: Bingjiefu He via Wikimedia Commons.

US Holocaust Museum accuses Mamdani of ‘exploiting’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Vita Fellig

Andrew Cuomo, then-governor of New York, at the opening of the new Delta Air Lines terminal in LaGuardia Airport in Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 29, 2019. Credit: Delta News Hub via Wikimedia Commons.

Manhattan Institute poll has Cuomo ahead by 13 points in NYC mayoral race

Gavel next to American flag. Credit: Sergei Tokmakov/Pixabay.

‘Go burn in an oven’: Florida man charged with antisemitic threats

Gavel on a courtroom table. Credit: Joe Gratz via Wikimedia Commons.

Maryland man charged with making ‘numerous’ threats against Jewish institutions

Mike Wagenheim

Khamenei: US joining war against Iran would have ‘serious’ consequences

JNS Staff

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at a "fight oligarchy" rally at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz., March 20, 2025. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons.

Mum’s the word on Israel striking Iran from likely 2028 Dem presidential hopefuls

Aaron Bandler

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press as workers install a large flag pole on the South Lawn of the White House, June 18, 2025. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images.

Trump: Patience with Iran has run out, ‘very late’ for renewed nuclear talks

JNS Staff

US Embassy in Jerusalem closed due to Iran war

JNS Staff

A replica of the U.S. Great Seal is displayed in the Harry S. Truman Building of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, May 12, 2025. Credit: Serkan Gurbuz/U.S. State Department.

US ‘working before, during and after’ on Iran scenario

Mike Wagenheim

Conservative American Christians urge Trump to back regime change in Iran

Etgar Lefkovits

Using ‘$1b of soft power,’ Qatar has corrupted Georgetown, report says

Dave Gordon

Times Square campaign links ‘Free Palestine’ with call for Jewish genocide

JNS Staff

NYC comptroller detained by ICE at Manhattan immigration court

Vita Fellig

‘Concerned’ about West Virginia University probe of Jewish student, free speech org says

Aaron Bandler

INSIDE ISRAEL

Israeli defense company Elbit Systems' Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft System. Credit: Elbit Systems

IDF: Drone downed in Iran

JNS Staff

Israeli forces during a counter-terror operation in Jenin in northern Samaria, Sept. 2024. Credit: IDF.

IDF thwarts terror stabbing near Bethlehem

JNS Staff

Birthright Israel participants boarding a Cyprus-bound ship at Ashdod Port, June 17, 2025. Credit: Erez Uzir, courtesy of Birthright Israel.

Birthright Israel evacuates 1,500, ‘unprecedented’ op

JNS Staff

El Al rescue flight lands at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, June 18, 2025. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israeli airlifts start bringing home stranded citizens

Etgar Lefkovits

Israeli President Isaac Herzog visits the northern town of Tamra, where four young women were killed by an Iranian missile strike, June 18, 2025. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

‘Arab and Israeli society as one’: Herzog pays condolence visit to Tamra

JNS Staff

New-generation centrifuges on display in Tehran during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day, April 10, 2021. Credit: Iranian Presidency Office/WANA.

Failing to dismantle Iran’s nuke program would ‘haunt’ world, says expert

Amelie Botbol

Iranian missiles have killed 24, injured more than 800

Israels enjoy at the beach promenade in Tel Aviv, June 17, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

IDF eases some restrictions on civilian activities amid war

JNS Staff

Gideon Sa'ar speaks to foreign diplomats in Bat Yam, Israel on June 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel.

Strikes in Iran to continue, Israeli foreign minister tells diplomats

JNS Staff

Police face off against anti-Israel protesters at Dam Square in Amsterdam on Nov. 10, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Bart Schut.

Amsterdam cops didn’t prepare for Maccabi pogroms, report says

Canaan Lidor

‘Operation Rising Lion’: Over 1,100 targets hit in Iran

JNS Staff

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets opposition leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid Party) for a security briefing, June 17, 2025. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Netanyahu meets Lapid for security briefing amid Iran war

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Iranians in central Tehran hold pictures of Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps slain by Israel, as they gather for a protest against Israel's wave of airstrikes on Iran, June 13, 2025. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Iran needs regime change, but that can’t be the goal

Israel must take the gloves off in Gaza

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Thane Rosenbaum, Ep. 181

Jonathan S. Tobin

Conservative talk-show host Tucker Carlson speaks to attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 19, 2020. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Jonathan S. Tobin

The anti-Israel, pro-Iran faction on the right lost Trump

WORLD

A Jewish man outside the synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, on Dec. 11, 2017. Photo by Canaan Lidor.

France: Jewish, US sites could be targeted by ‘foreign power’

JNS Staff

Germany ups protection at Jewish, Israeli sites

JNS Staff

A "Red Line For Gaza" demonstration in Brussels on June 15, 2025. Photo by Luis Miguel Caceres/Getty Images.

Photos of Jews displayed in Brussels with: ‘He/she lobbies for genocide’

Yossi Lempkowicz

A black wall blocks access to an Israeli pavilion at the Paris Air Show on June 16, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Defense of the State of Israel.

France walls off Israeli pavilion at Paris Air Show

JNS Staff

Israel Kasnett

Is Saudi-Israel normalization still on track?

Rabbi Shlomo Köves, chief rabbi of the Chabad-affiliated Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities (or EMIH), at his office in Budapest, May 28, 2025. Photo by David Isaac.

Hungary’s leading Orthodox rabbi hopes to see secular Jews return to their roots

David Isaac

Canaan Lidor

Amid tensions with China, Israel eyes stronger India ties

SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the JNS International Policy Conference in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Fiamma Nirenstein

Netanyahu’s finest hour: Facing Iran alone, if he must

Armored vehicles of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces are deployed outside the U.S. embassy building in Baghdad's Green Zone after an announcement by a U.S. official the previous day that staff levels at the diplomatic mission in Iraq were being reduced over security concerns, on June 12, 2025. Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images.

Melanie Phillips

The nightmare scenario arrives

Security personnel work to hide graffiti on a panel outside the Rafael booth next to the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) at the Israeli Pavillon during the 55th edition of the International Paris Air Show at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on June 16, 2025. France blocked access to the stands of Israeli arms manufacturers for displaying "offensive weapons." Photo by Mathieu Rabechault/AFP via Getty Images.

Fiamma Nirenstein

Paris erects a wall of shame around Israel

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world

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Joel Margolis

Israel’s right to fight, explained

Avi Abelow

Earthquake shaking beneath the West

featured column

Moshe Phillips

A single night in Jerusalem made me rethink everything I knew about Israel

featured column

Gabe Groisman

The ‘woke right’ is wrong on Iran

Kirill Gayvoronskiy

Russia offers to mediate between Iran and Israel

Rami Chris Robbins

China’s role in the Iranian missile crisis

Jeff Ballabon

America First’ pretenders are siding with Iran chant of ‘Death to America’

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Where are you, God?

featured column

Stephen M. Flatow

Our children’s journeys to Israel are more than a rite of passage

Sarah N. Stern

This one seems different ...

Yaron Buskila

Between missiles and messages

Daniel S. Mariaschin

‘Chicken Little,’ the fight against Iran

Jewish men from the Belz Chassidic dynasty study Torah with gas masks in Jerusalem during the Persian Gulf War in January 1991. Photo by Flash90.

featured column

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Doubt under (literal) fire

One of the hardest things human beings have had to do is find faith during perilous times.

Egyptian military trucks cross a bridge laid over the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War, Oct. 7, 1973. Credit: U.S. Government/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Gerald M. Steinberg

Minimum requirements for a negotiated ceasefire with Iran

Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip via the coastal al-Rashid Road as part of the ceasefire agreement with Israel, Jan. 27, 2025. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Avraham Russell Shalev

Lazy accusations of genocide distort the reality of war

Yisrael Medad

In America, the Jew as ‘settler’

Louis Rene Beres

Demilitarization is a false promise

Eric Navarro

The United States must help topple the Iranian regime

Yuval David

The world must wake up: Iran’s war against freedom is unleashed

William Choslovsky

Tom Friedman knows better

Rav Hayim Leiter

Of blood, bravery and ‘brit milah’

Mark Levin

This is the MAGA foreign policy

Andrew Bostom

Al-Azhar University’s Jew-hating jihad reaches Colorado

Banafsheh Zand

Mahan Air and the Khomeinist regime’s secret flight network

David Yaari

Two hours that reshaped the world order

featured column

Ben Cohen

Zohran Mamdani is the Ken Livingstone of New York City

Phyllis Chesler

Miraculous Israel: The downfall of Iran, the rise of Persia

JNS WIRE

Press releases from around the Jewish world

Wire

In the wake of Israel's confrontation with Iran, a national emergency volunteer headquarters has been established to assist evacuees and affected communities across the Jewish state, June 18, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund.

Kibbutz movement sets up emergency volunteer headquarters to assist Israeli evacuees

Just hours after its launch, the HQ carried out its first operation, delivering 121 mattresses to bomb shelters in kibbutzim in the Upper Galilee.

A view of damage in Bat Yam, in central Israel, caused by a ballistic missile fired from Iran, June 15, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Foundation launches emergency-relief campaign for Israeli families displaced by Iran missile strikes

“We watched families lose everything in seconds,” said Shelly and Mike Pitman, founders of La’Aretz Foundation.

La'Aretz Foundation

Leket Israel continues to serve Israelis in need of food despite the war. Credit: Courtesy.

Leket Israel launches emergency measures during war with Iran

“We are turning to creative solutions, purchasing meals and fresh produce, to ensure those who depend on us are not left with nothing,” said Gidi Kroch, CEO Leket Israel.

Israeli security and rescue forces in Bnei Brak, where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused major structural damage, June 16, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

UJA-Federation sends $10m to aid Israeli civilians under fire

“In the days and weeks ahead, we’ll continue to allocate funding where it’s most needed,” said Eric S. Goldstein, CEO of UJA-Federation of New York.

UJA-Federation of New York

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists take part in an anti-Israel show in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 10, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

What Hamas holds hostage: Oct. 7 victims, Gazans and public opinion

Iran is the head of global terror, but Hamas is its most lethal arm—working in partnership for the shared goal of destroying Israel, or “Little Satan,” and the United States, “Big Satan.”

The Focus Project