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Holocaust Remembrance Day

The first since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.

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.

The first since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.

Alyza Lewin, of Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS that the district attorney is “getting disqualified from prosecuting a case involving antisemitism” for recognizing modern Jew-hatred.
The Islamic Republic “cannot have a nuclear weapon,” the American president reiterated.
Bettan’s first performance of “Michelle” at Vienna’s Wiener Stadthalle drew applause as well as boos and whistles.
Remarks by the US envoy highlight a growing realization that disarming Hamas will likely be left to Israel as the terror group reasserts control in half of Gaza.
The UAE reportedly struck a refinery on Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf in April, sparking a major fire and crippling the facility’s operation.