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Israel Defense Forces soldier G'haleb Alnasasra, who was killed in the northern Gaza Strip on April 19, 2025. Credit: IDF.

IDF tracker killed in Hamas ambush in northern Gaza

Warrant Officer G'haleb Alnasasra, a Bedouin from Rahat, was killed near Beit Hanoun; three others seriously wounded.

JNS Staff

A mural depicting a mock version of the Great Seal of the United States, with the eagle holding syringes and ammunition cartridges in its talons and a Star of David is seen painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran, colloquially-referred to as the Spy Den, on April 19, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images.

US, Iran make headway in Rome nuclear negotiations

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Harming Iran’s oil exports to China is ‘dramatic blow’

Screenshot of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering remarks on April 19, 2025. Source: YouTube/@IsraeliPM.

Netanyahu vows to press on until Hamas defeated

The Israeli premier rejected ceasefire proposals, stating that ending war now would be “a strategic defeat."

JNS Staff

Israeli security forces guard at the Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, on Jan. 25, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel to charge 22 Hamas terrorists for Oct. 7 crimes

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Screenshot of Hamas propaganda video published on April 19, 2025 featuring Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot. Source: X.

Hamas releases video of Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot

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US-Israeli hostage’s father calls for direct talks with Hamas

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INSIDE ISRAEL

Israel Defense Forces troops operating in the Gaza Strip, April 12, 2025. Credit: IDF.

IDF strikes 40 terrorist targets in Gaza

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Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, gives a speech during Friday prayers in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2015. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas rejects Israel’s latest hostage deal proposal

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee inserts a note from President Donald Trump into a crack in the Western Wall, April 18, 2025. Credit: Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

Huckabee to JNS: America ‘benefits a great deal from Israel’

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U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler, speaking in his previous role as CEO of the United States International Financial Development Corporation, during a press conference with Kosovo's prime minister in Pristina on Sept. 21, 2020. Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images.

Trump envoy Boehler: ‘Nothing goes forward until all hostages are released’

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Rom Braslavski, 19. Credit: Courtesy of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad releases proof of life of hostage Rom Braslavski

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Residents and members of the clergy march together ahead of Palm Sunday mass in Lebanon's southern village of Qlayaa on April 13, 2025. Photo by Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images.

Lebanon claims it is replacing Hezbollah in the south

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David and Tammy Friedman, facing camera, speak to an attendant of a ceremony held at Ein Kshatot, Israel on March 25, 2025. Photo by Canaan Lidor.

Golan locals honor David Friedman, who led US recognition

For Trump's previous ambassador to Israel, the lack of diplomatic pushback is the change itself—a sign of enduring, bipartisan recognition.

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Posters denouncing antisemitism at Belgian university torn down

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Hezbollah terrorists parade with a missile as the Palestinian (R) and the movement's (back) flags flutter during an annual parade in the southern city of Nabatiyeh on Jan. 10, 2009. Photo Mahmoud Zayat/AFP via Getty Images.

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US & CANADA NEWS

Grand marshall Lizzy Savetsky attends the 2023 Celebrate Israel Parade on June 4, 2023 in New York City. Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images.

‘Never in a million years,’ Lizzy Savetsky says, of imagining she’d use Instagram to defend Jews

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Close-up of a wooden gavel. Credit: Sora Shimazaki/Pexels.

NY man admits traveling to Saudi Arabia with intent to join ISIS in Syria

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Mark Levin speaking with attendees at the 2nd Annual Turning Point USA Winter Gala at the Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 18, 2019. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump names ‘Fox News’ host Mark Levin to Homeland Security Advisory Council

Mike Wagenheim

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) surveys the damage after an arson attack at the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, Pa., on April 13, 2025. Credit: Commonwealth Media Services/Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

House panel leaders condemn attack on Jewish governor’s home

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Ed Martin, president of the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, speaks during a Jan. 6 field hearing held by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in the U.S. Capitol on June 13, 2023. Credit: Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images.

Pursuing Hamas and its supporters is personal for acting US attorney in DC

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About 400 people rallied in Toronto to state that anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, April 16, 2025. Credit: Amy Fernandes.

‘Our haters should not get to define us’: Rally stating anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred draws hundreds in Toronto

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Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. Credit: DHS/Benjamin Applebaum.

Former DHS officer who glorified Oct. 7 fired after 16 months of paid leave

Harvard Yard on the university’s campus in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Homeland Security cancels $2.7m in grants to Harvard over Jew-hatred

Vita Fellig

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, provides an update to the media after an arson attack on April 12, the first night of Passover, at the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, Pa., April 16, 2025. Credit: Commonwealth Media Services.

from the editor-in-chief

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Former hostage exhibits artwork in NYC

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People’s prayers ‘lifting us up,’ Shapiro says after Passover attack

The Jewish governor of Pennsylvania said some of the destroyed Passover items would be kept as evidence of the arson.

Jonathan D. Salant

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asks a question during a House committee hearing about antisemitism on campus with the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT, Dec. 5, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of the office of Rep. Stefanik.

Stefanik, Comer launch Harvard bias probe

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In memory of Yaakov Kirschen ...

Yaakov Kirschen. Credit: Courtesy.

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In “Mom and Me” by Yaakov Kirschen, the user responds to the “Mom” character by choosing to click one of several predefined choices. Conversations with Mom often involve some guilt and nagging. Credit: Courtesy.

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Yaakov Kirschen’s other legacy

Yaakov Kirschen at the drawing board. Photo by Sali Ariel.

‘Dry Bones’ political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen dies at age 87

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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, provides an update to the media after an arson attack on April 12, the first night of Passover, at the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, Pa., April 16, 2025. Credit: Commonwealth Media Services.

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What the Shapiro attack tells us about America in 2025

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“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Michael Pregent, Ep. 173

Jonathan S. Tobin

A picture shows front-page newspaper headlines at a kiosk in Tehran, featuring Iran-U.S. talks on the Iranian nuclear program to begin in Oman, April 12, 2025. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images.

Jonathan S. Tobin

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WORLD

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Dark ironies: How fear of offense has undermined British security

Erling Haaland plays for Manchester City against RB Leipzig in a UEFA Champions League match at the Red Bull Arena, Leipzig, Germany, on Feb. 22, 2023. Photo by Jacek Stanislawek/Wikimedia Commons.

Soccer star Haaland chats with freed Israeli hostage

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Gal Gadot attends the World Premiere of Disney's Snow White at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 15, 2025. Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney.

Lebanon bans ‘Snow White’ due to Israeli star Gal Gadot

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Bangladesh restores ‘except Israel’ wording on passports

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attends a meeting at Vahdettin Palace in Istanbul on Jan. 26, 2024. Photo by Rory Arnold/No10 Downing Street via Wikimedia Commons.

Turkish spy chief talks Gaza aid with Hamas leaders

Ankara's National Intelligence Organization advertised the meeting in a statement that accused Israel of "genocidal acts."

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 28, 2009. Photo by Remy Steinegger.

Putin meets freed Hamas hostages in Moscow

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AJC’s EU office urges ‘strict oversight’ of Europe’s $1.8 billion PA budget

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People celebrate the marriage ceremony of Prince Harry and Meagan Merkel as it is screened live from England, at the British ambassador's home in Ramat Gan, Israel, on May 19, 2018. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Prince Harry charity donated to org whose founder called for ‘liberation of Palestine’

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SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Extensive fire damage to the Pennsylvania Governor's Mansion in Harrisburg, the residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro, after an arson attack on April 12, seen during a press conference on April 13, 2025. Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images.

Melanie Phillips

The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban review a military honor guard in Budapest on April 3, 2025. Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images.

Fiamma Nirenstein

Netanyahu, Orbán and the battle for global legitimacy

An Israeli family reading the Haggadah at a Passover Seder, April 22, 2024. Photo by Chen Leopold/Flash90. April 22, 2024.

Ruthie Blum

Passover: Long division and a short memory

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world

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Rabbi Chaim Goldberg

How IDF Rabbinate prepped for Pesach

Amine Ayoub

When will the Muslim world wake up to its own chaos?

Hannah Garces

‘You have to be carefully taught’

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

‘Tradition, Tradition!’

William Choslovsky

A Passover parable

Yisrael Medad

Israel’s ‘privileged class’: Roots and rot

Michael Masters

They have a manual. We need a movement.

Raphael Shore

Antisemitism harkens all the way back to Moses and Pharaoh

Joseph Puder

Iran behind rushed summit between Trump and Netanyahu

Giovanni Giacalone

Hezbollah crackdown in Europe means time for EU to blacklist it

Howard Teich

Renewing ‘tikkun olam’ in modern times

Jason Shvili

America makes high returns on investment when it comes to Israel military aid

Young men stand above the crowd holding a Palestinian flag and a "Stop Genocide in Gaza" sign during a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 12, 2025. Photo by Mehedi Hasan/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images.

Featured Column

Ben Cohen

‘Valid for all countries except Israel’

Authorities in Bangladesh announced that they were reintroducing what is essentially a disclaimer on the passports issued to its citizens.

Family and friends of Israeli hostages Ziv and Gali Berman march through the streets of Tel Aviv, calling for their release from Hamas captivity, April 10, 2025. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Scott McGrath

A tale of light and love

This Passover, we must tell the modern-day story of the captives and work for their release.

A monument to Haviva Reik in Givat Haviva. Credit: Zalmanson Zeller via the PikiWiki Israel and Wikimedia Commons.

David Heller

American Jews should prioritize shared society in Israel

Andrew Bostom, Morton A. Klein

ADL quietly purged data on European Muslim antisemitism

Josh Renaud

Yaakov Kirschen’s other legacy

Eric Levine

John Kerry’s attempt to revive the failed Iran nuclear deal

Daniel Greenfield

Non-Orthodox sign letter standing with campus Hamas supporters

Hadi Mahdeyan

Removal of Yale Law School member was justified, not a free-speech violation

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Mitchell Bard

The latest attempt to undermine Israel? Exploiting Palestinian Christians

Dr. Alex Sternberg, David Levine

Israeli ‘hegemon’ will make deal-making in Mideast more moral

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Martin Sherman

Augmenting the Abraham Accords to include Azerbaijan

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Moshe Phillips

Anti-Israel hate at Tufts: A case study

Simmy Allen

Might, mercy, a strong hand and a soft heart

Micha Danzig

One of America’s best investments: US military aid to Israel

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Press releases from around the Jewish world

Wire

Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, along with children present, observe a propaganda ceremony during which Israeli hostages who were taken during the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 are turned over to the Red Cross, Feb. 22, 2025. Credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90.

How an ancient hatred of Jews has rippled through history

Antisemitism has morphed into ideological opposition to Zionism, the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland of Israel.

The Focus Project

At the Met at Yachad dinner are, from left, Josh and Sammi Aranoff; Rena and Avi Kirshtein; and Betzalel Rosenwasser. Front row: Chaim and Tamar Goldman, and Lani Rosenwasser. Credit: Courtesy of Yachad.

Orthodox Union’s Yachad launches alumni network

Two dozen couples who met at Yachad learn about the organization’s progress at inaugural alumni event and pledge future involvement.

Orthodox Union,

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish American Heritage month starts on May 1

“JAHM is a celebration of America’s rich and diverse Jewish heritage, and the myriad contributions Jews have made to this country since the dawn of our nation,” said Dan Tadmor, museum president and CEO.

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

Israeli teens from Gaza border communities together with their American counterparts last summer at Ramah Berkshires. Credit: Jen Roman for the Jewish Agency.

Jewish Agency continues camp initiative fostering peoplehood with $2.5m annual gift

Campers2Gether will bring 700 Israeli teenagers from the country’s southern and northern confrontation lines to Jewish overnight camps throughout North America.

The Jewish Agency for Israel

AEPi from the University at Buffalo won this year's Mensch Madness tournament. Credit: Courtesy.

AEPi Mensch Madness raises more than $60k for philanthropy

The chapter raising the most money was at the University at Buffalo.