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Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard is the Washington correspondent for JNS.org.

“I’d rather see a peace deal than the other, but the other will solve the problem,” the U.S. president said, hinting at possible military action against Iran’s nuclear program.
“Jewish students deserve consistent support from their university administrators, not calls to hide their Jewish identity,” said Julia Jassey, of Jewish on Campus.
“We estimate 22, maybe 24 live bodies,” the U.S. Middle East envoy said. “We want them all back.”
“Members of our Jewish community should not have to think about their safety when they go to worship,” said Joseph McNally, acting U.S. attorney.
“The polite lie that we tell ourselves over and over again is that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said. “It is simply not true.”
“Broadly speaking, Jews tend to be less religious on a range of traditional religious measures of belief and practice compared with Americans overall,” Becka Alper, one of the lead researchers, told JNS.
Hamas handed over remains it said were of Tsachi Idan, Ohad Yahalomi, Itzik Elgarat and Shlomo Mansour to the Red Cross en route to their return to Israel, “Al Jazeera” reported.
“Lebanon could actually normalize and come into the Abraham peace accords, as could even potentially Syria,” Steve Witkoff told attendees at an AJC event.
“This administration no longer has the ability to effectively govern with Eric Adams as mayor,” the speaker of the New York City Council said Monday.
“The entire region is shaken now, and it’s good,” Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Effie Defrin told reporters. “Because for more than seven decades, eight decades, we have repeated the same mistakes.”
“It is inappropriate for the conference to put out a letter of any sort, frankly, without approval of the members of the conference,” Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.
The Hashemite leader agreed to accept 2,000 severely ill children into his country, but stated that Arab leaders would present a counter proposal to the president’s idea to “own” Gaza.