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Israeli city sues Iran for $65 million in war reparations

“We will continue to fight until we bring about the economic collapse of the ayatollah regime,” said attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.

Nov. 8, 2026

JNS Staff

Analysis

Can Gadi Eisenkot assemble Israel’s next governing coalition?

Arab parties, haredi conscription and Trump complicate his coalition bid.

Nov. 8, 2026

Amelie Botbol

Israel News

Likud preparing to challenge election results

The party’s planned appeal centers on alleged use of voter-mobilization apps in the Arab community.

Nov. 8, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Netanyahu says ‘time for unity,’ warns against government backed by ‘Islamists’

The Yashar party says Likud is welcome to join a coalition under Gadi Eisenkot as prime minister, without “extremists.”

Nov. 7, 2026

JNS Staff
U.S.
U.S. News

Massachusetts teen who praised Tree of Life mass shooter charged with threatening to kill Trump

Trenton Touch allegedly wrote in social media messages that he was going to kill the U.S. president and dress as a Nazi on Halloween to commit a mass shooting.

Nov. 9, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Gaza-born anti-Israel writer challenges Fetterman in 2028 primary

Ahmed Moor, who has called Hamas rocket fire “self-defense” and said that “‘Zionist Israel’ does not have the right to exist,” is the first candidate to announce that he’s taking on the pro-Israel stalwart.

Nov. 9, 2026

Andrew Bernard

U.S. News

Police not probing man who tried to enter DC synagogue with unregistered gun for hate crime

“There is no ongoing threat,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington stated of the incident at Washington Hebrew Congregation.

Nov. 9, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Florida man forfeits smuggled ancient Torahs, Mesopotamian tablets

“These improperly obtained foreign antiquities have been recovered and will be repatriated back to their countries of origin,” stated the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Nov. 9, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman
World
- United Nations
- Middle East
- Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Latin America
- Canada
- Australia
- Iran
World News

Court orders Sotheby’s to return painting looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs

The 1902 landscape by Camille Pissarro was part of the collection of French banker Salomon Flavian seized in 1941.

Nov. 7, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

US sanctions Canadian money services businesses for helping Iranian regime move money out of the country

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs stated that it “has long called on the Canadian government to ensure that Canada is not used as a safe haven for the IRGC, its operatives or other elements of the regime.”

Nov. 7, 2026

Mike Wagenheim

World News

‘We support Hamas’ banners displayed at mass anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam

Organizers say more than 200,000 joined the march, demanding tougher sanctions and an end to arms sales to the Jewish state.

Nov. 9, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

Coming to Israel dispels ‘nonsense’ of ‘Tucker Carlsons of the world,’ Huckabee tells JNS at world mayors event

Daniel Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, told JNS that Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, wasn’t invited to the 35th International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem.

Nov. 9, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum
Analysis
- Yaakov Lappin
- Shimon Sherman
Analysis

Can Gadi Eisenkot assemble Israel’s next governing coalition?

Arab parties, haredi conscription and Trump complicate his coalition bid.

Nov. 8, 2026

Amelie Botbol

Analysis

The limits of political legitimacy: Israel’s Arab vote and the Jewish state

Arab parties’ historic gains spark election-fraud probes and debate over Hamas ties.

Nov. 6, 2026

Shimon Sherman

Analysis

Can Israel sustain a multi-front war amid political deadlock?

Political uncertainty could complicate Israel’s ability to sustain military operations, defense spending and long-term strategic commitments as threats persist from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon.

Nov. 1, 2026

Shimon Sherman

Analysis

Decoding Israel’s vote: Electorate divided, Netanyahu resilient, Arabs rising

Record turnout underscores faith in the democratic process as the results reshape the political landscape.

Oct. 30, 2026

David Isaac
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Kristallnacht eve wasn’t the day to ‘shelter in place’ against antisemites

Philly residents resoundingly responded to a “boycott ride” that targeted Jewish- and Israeli-owned eateries. Yet the existence of a group employing Nazi tactics reflects a growing acceptance of Jew-hatred.

November 9, 2026 07:50 PM

Jonathan S. Tobin

Column

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November 9, 2026 05:30 PM

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

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The unfinished business of Iran

The New York Times wants to end the war while leaving the threat intact.

November 9, 2026 04:15 PM

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Opinion

Nearly 40 years later, Freedom Sunday still teaches the power of advocacy

It is built through patient work that happens long before the cameras arrive.

November 9, 2026 02:45 PM

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Iran celebrates Trump’s midterm losses as Vance calls for shift in U.S.-Israel ties

Nov. 10, 2026

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JNS TV / Jerusalem Minute

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Nov. 9, 2026

Alex Traiman, Josh Hasten

JNS TV / Judeacation

Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel: Why Jewish farms are essential to Israel’s future

Nov. 9, 2026

Josh Hasten

JNS TV / Straight Up

Is ending U.S. aid the key to Israel’s independence?

Nov. 8, 2026

Daniel Seaman
Jewish Life
Senior Contributor

Not waving but drowning

Political momentum in the United States steadily supports the red-green alliance because centrists lack a moral and intellectual spine.

Nov. 5, 2026

Melanie Phillips

U.S. News

Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave, visited recently by 6,500 Chabad emissaries, where ‘lone trees come back to the forest’

“When we are strengthening and reinforcing each other, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish and overcome,” Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski, an emissary in Tampa, Fla., told JNS.

Nov. 7, 2026

Rebecca Szlechter

Feature

Israeli experts divided on whether Netanyahu is best leader with Dems poised to take over Congress

“It was the Democrats that moved away from Israel, not Israel away from the Democrats,” Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs told JNS.

Nov. 5, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

Feature

Great-nephew honors American Zionist’s legacy with new Jerusalem gallery

The Marc Shmuel Levine Gallery at the Jerusalem Theater pays tribute to Harry Levine, who helped arm the Haganah and establish the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Nov. 6, 2026

Judy Lash Balint
Antisemitism
U.S. News

Lawmakers attend ‘solidarity lunch’ at Jewish-owned Philadelphia restaurant ahead of ‘boycott ride’

“No business should be made to feel unwelcome in our city because of its owner’s identity, heritage or perceived political beliefs,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia said.

Nov. 6, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

US close to a ‘danger point’ with new class of politicians who hate Israel and Jews, experts say

“In these races, antisemitism wasn’t disqualifying,” Mark Goldfeder of the National Jewish Advocacy Center told JNS.

Nov. 5, 2026

Aaron Bandler, Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

US Jewish groups take stock of midterms

“I’ve been on the phone with a lot of unhappy Jewish people from across the country this morning,” B’nai B’rith International CEO Evan Bernstein told JNS. “I think people are scared. They’re nervous.”

Nov. 7, 2026

Andrew Bernard

World News

University of Toronto dentistry dean resigns after antisemitic slides used in lecture

An investigation found that Dr. Anil Kishen “had a limited understanding” of antisemitic tropes when he used cartoons depicting a figure bathing in money and another wrapped in an Israeli flag and being strangled to illustrate medical concepts.

Nov. 6, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman
Features
Feature

Paulson says his $250 million Hebrew University gift ‘won’t be the last,’ eyes haredi STEM education

The American billionaire told JNS that supporting Israeli higher education can have nearly 10 times the impact of giving to an Ivy League institution.

Nov. 3, 2026

Atara Ruderman

Feature

Jew-hatred a problem for all of NY, City Council member Virginia Maloney says

The non-Jewish council member, who grew up on the Upper East Side, told JNS that she was raised in a “proud Zionist household.”

Oct. 29, 2026

Rebecca Szlechter

Feature

‘We sympathize with our Israeli and Jewish friends,’ diaspora Iranians continue to say three years after Oct. 7

“We Iranians have no better friends in this world than the Jewish people and will always unapologetically stand with them,” Fred Saberi, an Iranian activist in Sweden, told JNS.

Oct. 29, 2026

Karmel Melamed

Feature

‘Don’t want to check any part of who I am at the door,’ says Orthodox Jewish NY state Assembly member

“When I go out and do things, it’s never, ‘Oh, look at what Sam did.’ It’s always like, ‘What Sam-the-Jew did,’” Sam Berger told JNS.

Nov. 3, 2026

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Culture
Opinion

When religion becomes law: Iran’s warning before America votes

Legislators will change come Nov. 3. That prompts the question: What limits must government respect, regardless of who wins?

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Election fraud allegations mount in Israel’s Arab towns

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Nov. 3, 2026

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U.S. News

Former Hebrew Union College leaders hope to take over Cincinnati Reform rabbinical campus, as court lets state’s suit against HUC continue

“If the case is successful, if we’re able to come to a successful resolution of this matter, that will be what you might call the soil out of which CCJ will grow,” Rabbi Gary Zola, founding president of the College for Contemporary Judaism, told JNS.

Nov. 2, 2026

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‘Don’t want to check any part of who I am at the door,’ says Orthodox Jewish NY state Assembly member

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Israeli city sues Iran for $65 million in war reparations

“We will continue to fight until we bring about the economic collapse of the ayatollah regime,” said attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.

Nov. 8, 2026

JNS Staff

Analysis

Can Gadi Eisenkot assemble Israel’s next governing coalition?

Arab parties, haredi conscription and Trump complicate his coalition bid.

Nov. 8, 2026

Amelie Botbol

Israel News

Likud preparing to challenge election results

The party’s planned appeal centers on alleged use of voter-mobilization apps in the Arab community.

Nov. 8, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Netanyahu says ‘time for unity,’ warns against government backed by ‘Islamists’

The Yashar party says Likud is welcome to join a coalition under Gadi Eisenkot as prime minister, without “extremists.”

Nov. 7, 2026

JNS Staff
U.S.
U.S. News

Massachusetts teen who praised Tree of Life mass shooter charged with threatening to kill Trump

Trenton Touch allegedly wrote in social media messages that he was going to kill the U.S. president and dress as a Nazi on Halloween to commit a mass shooting.

Nov. 9, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Gaza-born anti-Israel writer challenges Fetterman in 2028 primary

Ahmed Moor, who has called Hamas rocket fire “self-defense” and said that “‘Zionist Israel’ does not have the right to exist,” is the first candidate to announce that he’s taking on the pro-Israel stalwart.

Nov. 9, 2026

Andrew Bernard

U.S. News

Police not probing man who tried to enter DC synagogue with unregistered gun for hate crime

“There is no ongoing threat,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington stated of the incident at Washington Hebrew Congregation.

Nov. 9, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Florida man forfeits smuggled ancient Torahs, Mesopotamian tablets

“These improperly obtained foreign antiquities have been recovered and will be repatriated back to their countries of origin,” stated the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Nov. 9, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman
World
- United Nations
- Middle East
- Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Latin America
- Canada
- Australia
- Iran
World News

Court orders Sotheby’s to return painting looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs

The 1902 landscape by Camille Pissarro was part of the collection of French banker Salomon Flavian seized in 1941.

Nov. 7, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

US sanctions Canadian money services businesses for helping Iranian regime move money out of the country

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs stated that it “has long called on the Canadian government to ensure that Canada is not used as a safe haven for the IRGC, its operatives or other elements of the regime.”

Nov. 7, 2026

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World News

‘We support Hamas’ banners displayed at mass anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam

Organizers say more than 200,000 joined the march, demanding tougher sanctions and an end to arms sales to the Jewish state.

Nov. 9, 2026

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Coming to Israel dispels ‘nonsense’ of ‘Tucker Carlsons of the world,’ Huckabee tells JNS at world mayors event

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Nov. 9, 2026

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- Yaakov Lappin
- Shimon Sherman
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Can Gadi Eisenkot assemble Israel’s next governing coalition?

Arab parties, haredi conscription and Trump complicate his coalition bid.

Nov. 8, 2026

Amelie Botbol

Analysis

The limits of political legitimacy: Israel’s Arab vote and the Jewish state

Arab parties’ historic gains spark election-fraud probes and debate over Hamas ties.

Nov. 6, 2026

Shimon Sherman

Analysis

Can Israel sustain a multi-front war amid political deadlock?

Political uncertainty could complicate Israel’s ability to sustain military operations, defense spending and long-term strategic commitments as threats persist from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon.

Nov. 1, 2026

Shimon Sherman

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Decoding Israel’s vote: Electorate divided, Netanyahu resilient, Arabs rising

Record turnout underscores faith in the democratic process as the results reshape the political landscape.

Oct. 30, 2026

David Isaac
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Editor-in-Chief

Kristallnacht eve wasn’t the day to ‘shelter in place’ against antisemites

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November 9, 2026 07:50 PM

Jonathan S. Tobin

Column

The seesaw of life

Don’t curse the darkness. Kindle a flame.

November 9, 2026 05:30 PM

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Opinion

The unfinished business of Iran

The New York Times wants to end the war while leaving the threat intact.

November 9, 2026 04:15 PM

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Opinion

Nearly 40 years later, Freedom Sunday still teaches the power of advocacy

It is built through patient work that happens long before the cameras arrive.

November 9, 2026 02:45 PM

Marcia Bronstein
JNS TV
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Iran celebrates Trump’s midterm losses as Vance calls for shift in U.S.-Israel ties

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Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave, visited recently by 6,500 Chabad emissaries, where ‘lone trees come back to the forest’

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Nov. 7, 2026

Rebecca Szlechter

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Israeli experts divided on whether Netanyahu is best leader with Dems poised to take over Congress

“It was the Democrats that moved away from Israel, not Israel away from the Democrats,” Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs told JNS.

Nov. 5, 2026

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Feature

Great-nephew honors American Zionist’s legacy with new Jerusalem gallery

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Nov. 6, 2026

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Lawmakers attend ‘solidarity lunch’ at Jewish-owned Philadelphia restaurant ahead of ‘boycott ride’

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Nov. 6, 2026

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US Jewish groups take stock of midterms

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Nov. 7, 2026

Andrew Bernard

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University of Toronto dentistry dean resigns after antisemitic slides used in lecture

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Nov. 6, 2026

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Feature

Paulson says his $250 million Hebrew University gift ‘won’t be the last,’ eyes haredi STEM education

The American billionaire told JNS that supporting Israeli higher education can have nearly 10 times the impact of giving to an Ivy League institution.

Nov. 3, 2026

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Jew-hatred a problem for all of NY, City Council member Virginia Maloney says

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‘We sympathize with our Israeli and Jewish friends,’ diaspora Iranians continue to say three years after Oct. 7

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“When I go out and do things, it’s never, ‘Oh, look at what Sam did.’ It’s always like, ‘What Sam-the-Jew did,’” Sam Berger told JNS.

Nov. 3, 2026

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Oct. 31, 2026

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Election fraud allegations mount in Israel’s Arab towns

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Former Hebrew Union College leaders hope to take over Cincinnati Reform rabbinical campus, as court lets state’s suit against HUC continue

“If the case is successful, if we’re able to come to a successful resolution of this matter, that will be what you might call the soil out of which CCJ will grow,” Rabbi Gary Zola, founding president of the College for Contemporary Judaism, told JNS.

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‘Don’t want to check any part of who I am at the door,’ says Orthodox Jewish NY state Assembly member

“When I go out and do things, it’s never, ‘Oh, look at what Sam did.’ It’s always like, ‘What Sam-the-Jew did,’” Sam Berger told JNS.

Nov. 3, 2026

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The Wire
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