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Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

Gone with the wind...

“I think one of the bedrocks of our city is protest,” the New York City mayor said when asked what Palestinian New Yorkers should do when the Israeli prime minister visits New York in September.
Gloria Romero, who is running for lieutenant governor of California, told JNS that after Oct. 7, anti-Israel demonstrations at UCLA cemented her party switch.
Explosions were reportedly heard in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat, near the Jordanian border.
The effort to single out Jewish and Israeli tourists was widely condemned by Italian politicians across the political spectrum.
The United States would reportedly approve uranium enrichment only if a joint study concludes the move is justified.
The strikes were intended to “further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”