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Netanyahu: Israel’s position on Turkish role in Syria ‘better understood’ after strikes

The Israeli premier warned Ankara against military entrenchment south of Aleppo following an attack on the Abu al-Duhur airbase early Tuesday morning.

Aug. 20, 2026

Joshua Marks

Israel News

Never too late to make aliyah: American ‘oleh’ turns 105

Sandy Goldstein moved to Israel at 102 with his wife, Rosalie. As he approaches his birthday, his advice is simple: “Do not wait.

Aug. 20, 2026

Howard Blas

Israel News

In meeting with Kushner, Netanyahu makes ‘very clear, in no uncertain words, that he is against a Palestinian state’

“The other side heard the message very well,” a senior Israeli official told JNS, of the Israeli prime minister’s meeting with the Trump adviser.

Aug. 20, 2026

Alex Traiman, David Isaac

Israel News

Delta and United are returning to Israel in September

The move, which comes just ahead of the busy Jewish High Holiday season, follows the gradual resumption of service to Tel Aviv by most major European airlines.

Aug. 20, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits
U.S.
U.S. News

Palm Beach County worker accused of Nazi salute, ‘Heil Hitler’ remark

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said the employee should no longer work for the county if the allegations are confirmed.

Aug. 22, 2026

Rebecca Szlechter

U.S. News

Texas governor asks Justice Department to investigate Muslim wash stations at airports

“Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain white-only bathrooms,” wrote Gov. Greg Abbott.

Aug. 22, 2026

Mike Wagenheim

U.S. News

‘Incredible pride’ to be Key West’s first Jewish mayor, Samuel Kaufman says

“We’re probably the only city in the state and in the country that raised the Israeli flag on our City Hall, next to our state flag, next to the American flag, and it stayed there for four months,” the mayor-elect told JNS.

Aug. 21, 2026

Andrew Bernard

U.S. News

New online study tracks migration of antisemitic language from fringe forums to mainstream platforms

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue tracked what it called “lexical laundering,” the process by which extremist vocabulary enters mainstream discourse while retaining its original meaning among insiders and becoming more “deniable” to outsiders.

Aug. 21, 2026
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Trump declares ‘economic D-Day’ for Iran

“These maniacs are on the ropes, and these historic measures will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide,” said the U.S. president.

Aug. 20, 2026

JNS Staff

Analysis

Netanyahu’s ‘Islamic Republic’ barb signals UK ‘no longer a friend of Israel,” British politician tells JNS

British Jewish leaders said the remark did not cause the rupture but reflected years of diplomatic and social deterioration.

Aug. 21, 2026

Canaan Lidor

World News

UN Security Council ‘emergency’ meetings have become political tool against Israel, Danon says

The global body’s focus is “more about bashing Israel, less about concrete efforts, practical solutions and confronting the bad guys,” the Israeli envoy told JNS.

Aug. 20, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

World News

Jewish candidate for UN sec-gen falls to second place in new round of polling

“After years of bias, failure and eroded trust, the organization needs a leader who is prepared to change the system,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the global body.

Aug. 21, 2026

Mike Wagenheim
Analysis
- Yaakov Lappin
- Shimon Sherman
Analysis

The Iran strike Trump halted: ‘We were about to destroy what remained of the regime’

Senior government official claims Israel was hours away from a massive operation that was stopped at the last minute last week. Also, Netanyahu’s successor, who still does not know he is one.

Aug. 15, 2026

Amit Segal

Analysis

Mecca defense pact ‘sidesteps the United States and Israel’

Israeli observers tell JNS the Pakistan-Saudi-Turkish agreement signifies the rise of a Sunni axis.

Aug. 13, 2026

Yaakov Lappin

Analysis

Netanyahu’s ‘Islamic Republic’ barb signals UK ‘no longer a friend of Israel,” British politician tells JNS

British Jewish leaders said the remark did not cause the rupture but reflected years of diplomatic and social deterioration.

Aug. 21, 2026

Canaan Lidor

Analysis

Katz’s police plan for Judea and Samaria: A step toward sovereignty—or politics?

Some see the transfer of law enforcement from the IDF to the police as a step toward greater Israeli governance, while a legal expert says it would bring greater normalcy to Israeli life in Judea and Samaria but not advance sovereignty.

Aug. 18, 2026

Josh Hasten
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Why is Rep. Jamie Raskin enabling campus antisemitism?

Notable victories have been achieved against campus Jew-hatred. But the Maryland congressman wants to stop the DOJ from turning the tide against woke discrimination.

August 21, 2026 06:45 PM

Jonathan S. Tobin

Senior Contributing Editor

Jingle hell

The score of Yair Golan’s latest campaign clip is music that freed hostage Rom Braslavski’s terrorist captors in Gaza listened to as regularly as they tortured him.

August 21, 2026 10:30 AM

Ruthie Blum

Opinion

‘Shema’: One people, one love

For one extraordinary moment, American Jews of every background, denomination and degree of observance raised their voices in unison in words that Jews have recited for thousands of years.

August 21, 2026 11:30 AM

Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald

Opinion

Good question, Abdul!

The Democratic senatorial candidate in Michigan seems overly concerned about Israel’s liberal values. He may wish to ask about countries whose constitutions name Islam as the state religion.

August 21, 2026 06:00 AM

Rabbi Avi Shafran
JNS TV
JNS TV / Axis of Truth

Iranian commander offers cash reward for killing or capturing Americans

Aug. 20, 2026

Emily Schrader

JNS TV / Judeacation

U.N. ‘settler violence’ data faces questions over disputed incidents

Aug. 19, 2026

Josh Hasten

JNS TV / Israel Undiplomatic

Is Israel turning military victories into diplomatic defeats?

Aug. 18, 2026

Ruthie Blum, Mark Regev

JNS TV

Inside the Israeli kibbutz rebuilding on Hezbollah’s doorstep

Aug. 17, 2026

Canaan Lidor
Jewish Life
Opinion

How American Jews can cope with the Democratic Party’s betrayal

The Democrats have left us: It’s time to face facts and time to take a stand.

Aug. 19, 2026

James Sinkinson

Opinion

AIPAC promotes left-wing issues … and gets attacked by the left

Too often, the Jewish lobbying group has taken problematic positions.

Aug. 18, 2026

Morton A. Klein

Opinion

Thomas Friedman is wrong again, this time about AIPAC

It’s not his first trip down this road, once again finding a culprit: Israel and the people who defend it.

Aug. 19, 2026

Stephen M. Flatow

Opinion

When a self-described Zionist organization stops acting like one

The question is whether Jewish national self-determination and Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state remain core values T’ruah is prepared to defend.

Aug. 20, 2026

Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt
Antisemitism
U.S. News

‘Tsunami of hate’ against Jews in medicine and hospitals, researchers say

“We decided that it was time for a rigorous narrative review of what we called anatomy of antisemitism in the health professions, not just medicine but across-the-board,” one of the authors of a new paper told JNS.

Aug. 19, 2026

Jonathan D. Salant

World News

Argentinian judge who called Jews ‘rats and vipers’ dismissed

The decision was the first time in the country’s history that a judge has been removed from office over anti-Jewish hate speech.

Aug. 19, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

Lone Jewish member of Georgia state legislature tells CAIR to disinvite antisemitic speakers from gala

“This is actual, straight-out Nazi-level ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ kind of antisemitism,” Esther Panitch told JNS.

Aug. 19, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Michigan Orthodox rabbi, who usually votes Dem, backs Rogers over El-Sayed

“I have concerns, but I have to do whatever I can to make sure this candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, does not win,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin told JNS.

Aug. 18, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman
Features
Feature

A Jewish teen’s departure reflects Belgium’s ‘silent exodus’

“Before Oct. 7, I was Raphael. Then I became ‘the Jew,’” a new immigrant to Israel told JNS amid a steady stream of Jews leaving his native country.

Aug. 14, 2026

Canaan Lidor

Feature

83 years later, Yad Vashem honors Dutch woman who saved Jewish baby during Holocaust

Jacqueline Meents-Lenstra hid Efraim Kochba as her own son in Nazi-occupied Holland after his Jewish parents entrusted the infant to her care.

Aug. 16, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

Feature

A ‘piyut’ for former Gaza hostage Agam Berger

Zev Shandalov, a Ma’ale Adumim-based rabbi and teacher, transformed the six words Berger wrote after 482 days in Hamas captivity into a thousand-year-old poetic form.

Aug. 14, 2026

Sasha Silber

Feature

Young evangelicals visiting Israel: ‘We should not stay silent’

Christian students and young professionals say firsthand encounters with Israel challenged media narratives and strengthened their resolve to confront antisemitism.

Aug. 11, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits
Culture
Opinion

Islam’s Trojan horse

We must ask Muslim immigrants if they will respect the Western way of life.

Aug. 17, 2026

Thane Rosenbaum

U.S. News

Amar’e Stoudemire inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

“For 20 years prior, secretly, I was learning Torah, I was learning the Bible, the biblical understanding of history, and I wanted to go to a place where I can live and also play,” the NBA legend said of his time playing in Israel.

Aug. 17, 2026

Andrew Bernard

Wandering Nation

Pakistan’s vanished Jewish legacy

The Jews helped build Karachi, the country’s capital and largest city, before prejudice finally forced them out.

Aug. 9, 2026

Michael Freund

Opinion

Why the anti-Israel left keeps siding with authoritarian regimes

The Cold War doctrine of “campism” now influences how parts of the American left perceive Israel.

Aug. 11, 2026

Tirza Shorr
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Netanyahu: Israel’s position on Turkish role in Syria ‘better understood’ after strikes

The Israeli premier warned Ankara against military entrenchment south of Aleppo following an attack on the Abu al-Duhur airbase early Tuesday morning.

Aug. 20, 2026

Joshua Marks

Israel News

Never too late to make aliyah: American ‘oleh’ turns 105

Sandy Goldstein moved to Israel at 102 with his wife, Rosalie. As he approaches his birthday, his advice is simple: “Do not wait.

Aug. 20, 2026

Howard Blas

Israel News

In meeting with Kushner, Netanyahu makes ‘very clear, in no uncertain words, that he is against a Palestinian state’

“The other side heard the message very well,” a senior Israeli official told JNS, of the Israeli prime minister’s meeting with the Trump adviser.

Aug. 20, 2026

Alex Traiman, David Isaac

Israel News

Delta and United are returning to Israel in September

The move, which comes just ahead of the busy Jewish High Holiday season, follows the gradual resumption of service to Tel Aviv by most major European airlines.

Aug. 20, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits
U.S.
U.S. News

Palm Beach County worker accused of Nazi salute, ‘Heil Hitler’ remark

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said the employee should no longer work for the county if the allegations are confirmed.

Aug. 22, 2026

Rebecca Szlechter

U.S. News

Texas governor asks Justice Department to investigate Muslim wash stations at airports

“Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain white-only bathrooms,” wrote Gov. Greg Abbott.

Aug. 22, 2026

Mike Wagenheim

U.S. News

‘Incredible pride’ to be Key West’s first Jewish mayor, Samuel Kaufman says

“We’re probably the only city in the state and in the country that raised the Israeli flag on our City Hall, next to our state flag, next to the American flag, and it stayed there for four months,” the mayor-elect told JNS.

Aug. 21, 2026

Andrew Bernard

U.S. News

New online study tracks migration of antisemitic language from fringe forums to mainstream platforms

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue tracked what it called “lexical laundering,” the process by which extremist vocabulary enters mainstream discourse while retaining its original meaning among insiders and becoming more “deniable” to outsiders.

Aug. 21, 2026
World
- United Nations
- Middle East
- Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Latin America
- Canada
- Australia
- Iran
World News

Trump declares ‘economic D-Day’ for Iran

“These maniacs are on the ropes, and these historic measures will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide,” said the U.S. president.

Aug. 20, 2026

JNS Staff

Analysis

Netanyahu’s ‘Islamic Republic’ barb signals UK ‘no longer a friend of Israel,” British politician tells JNS

British Jewish leaders said the remark did not cause the rupture but reflected years of diplomatic and social deterioration.

Aug. 21, 2026

Canaan Lidor

World News

UN Security Council ‘emergency’ meetings have become political tool against Israel, Danon says

The global body’s focus is “more about bashing Israel, less about concrete efforts, practical solutions and confronting the bad guys,” the Israeli envoy told JNS.

Aug. 20, 2026

Rikki Zagelbaum

World News

Jewish candidate for UN sec-gen falls to second place in new round of polling

“After years of bias, failure and eroded trust, the organization needs a leader who is prepared to change the system,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the global body.

Aug. 21, 2026

Mike Wagenheim
Analysis
- Yaakov Lappin
- Shimon Sherman
Analysis

The Iran strike Trump halted: ‘We were about to destroy what remained of the regime’

Senior government official claims Israel was hours away from a massive operation that was stopped at the last minute last week. Also, Netanyahu’s successor, who still does not know he is one.

Aug. 15, 2026

Amit Segal

Analysis

Mecca defense pact ‘sidesteps the United States and Israel’

Israeli observers tell JNS the Pakistan-Saudi-Turkish agreement signifies the rise of a Sunni axis.

Aug. 13, 2026

Yaakov Lappin

Analysis

Netanyahu’s ‘Islamic Republic’ barb signals UK ‘no longer a friend of Israel,” British politician tells JNS

British Jewish leaders said the remark did not cause the rupture but reflected years of diplomatic and social deterioration.

Aug. 21, 2026

Canaan Lidor

Analysis

Katz’s police plan for Judea and Samaria: A step toward sovereignty—or politics?

Some see the transfer of law enforcement from the IDF to the police as a step toward greater Israeli governance, while a legal expert says it would bring greater normalcy to Israeli life in Judea and Samaria but not advance sovereignty.

Aug. 18, 2026

Josh Hasten
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Why is Rep. Jamie Raskin enabling campus antisemitism?

Notable victories have been achieved against campus Jew-hatred. But the Maryland congressman wants to stop the DOJ from turning the tide against woke discrimination.

August 21, 2026 06:45 PM

Jonathan S. Tobin

Senior Contributing Editor

Jingle hell

The score of Yair Golan’s latest campaign clip is music that freed hostage Rom Braslavski’s terrorist captors in Gaza listened to as regularly as they tortured him.

August 21, 2026 10:30 AM

Ruthie Blum

Opinion

‘Shema’: One people, one love

For one extraordinary moment, American Jews of every background, denomination and degree of observance raised their voices in unison in words that Jews have recited for thousands of years.

August 21, 2026 11:30 AM

Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald

Opinion

Good question, Abdul!

The Democratic senatorial candidate in Michigan seems overly concerned about Israel’s liberal values. He may wish to ask about countries whose constitutions name Islam as the state religion.

August 21, 2026 06:00 AM

Rabbi Avi Shafran
JNS TV
JNS TV / Axis of Truth

Iranian commander offers cash reward for killing or capturing Americans

Aug. 20, 2026

Emily Schrader

JNS TV / Judeacation

U.N. ‘settler violence’ data faces questions over disputed incidents

Aug. 19, 2026

Josh Hasten

JNS TV / Israel Undiplomatic

Is Israel turning military victories into diplomatic defeats?

Aug. 18, 2026

Ruthie Blum, Mark Regev

JNS TV

Inside the Israeli kibbutz rebuilding on Hezbollah’s doorstep

Aug. 17, 2026

Canaan Lidor
Jewish Life
Opinion

How American Jews can cope with the Democratic Party’s betrayal

The Democrats have left us: It’s time to face facts and time to take a stand.

Aug. 19, 2026

James Sinkinson

Opinion

AIPAC promotes left-wing issues … and gets attacked by the left

Too often, the Jewish lobbying group has taken problematic positions.

Aug. 18, 2026

Morton A. Klein

Opinion

Thomas Friedman is wrong again, this time about AIPAC

It’s not his first trip down this road, once again finding a culprit: Israel and the people who defend it.

Aug. 19, 2026

Stephen M. Flatow

Opinion

When a self-described Zionist organization stops acting like one

The question is whether Jewish national self-determination and Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state remain core values T’ruah is prepared to defend.

Aug. 20, 2026

Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt
Antisemitism
U.S. News

‘Tsunami of hate’ against Jews in medicine and hospitals, researchers say

“We decided that it was time for a rigorous narrative review of what we called anatomy of antisemitism in the health professions, not just medicine but across-the-board,” one of the authors of a new paper told JNS.

Aug. 19, 2026

Jonathan D. Salant

World News

Argentinian judge who called Jews ‘rats and vipers’ dismissed

The decision was the first time in the country’s history that a judge has been removed from office over anti-Jewish hate speech.

Aug. 19, 2026

JNS Staff

U.S. News

Lone Jewish member of Georgia state legislature tells CAIR to disinvite antisemitic speakers from gala

“This is actual, straight-out Nazi-level ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ kind of antisemitism,” Esther Panitch told JNS.

Aug. 19, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

U.S. News

Michigan Orthodox rabbi, who usually votes Dem, backs Rogers over El-Sayed

“I have concerns, but I have to do whatever I can to make sure this candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, does not win,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin told JNS.

Aug. 18, 2026

Jessica Russak-Hoffman
Features
Feature

A Jewish teen’s departure reflects Belgium’s ‘silent exodus’

“Before Oct. 7, I was Raphael. Then I became ‘the Jew,’” a new immigrant to Israel told JNS amid a steady stream of Jews leaving his native country.

Aug. 14, 2026

Canaan Lidor

Feature

83 years later, Yad Vashem honors Dutch woman who saved Jewish baby during Holocaust

Jacqueline Meents-Lenstra hid Efraim Kochba as her own son in Nazi-occupied Holland after his Jewish parents entrusted the infant to her care.

Aug. 16, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits

Feature

A ‘piyut’ for former Gaza hostage Agam Berger

Zev Shandalov, a Ma’ale Adumim-based rabbi and teacher, transformed the six words Berger wrote after 482 days in Hamas captivity into a thousand-year-old poetic form.

Aug. 14, 2026

Sasha Silber

Feature

Young evangelicals visiting Israel: ‘We should not stay silent’

Christian students and young professionals say firsthand encounters with Israel challenged media narratives and strengthened their resolve to confront antisemitism.

Aug. 11, 2026

Etgar Lefkovits
Culture
Opinion

Islam’s Trojan horse

We must ask Muslim immigrants if they will respect the Western way of life.

Aug. 17, 2026

Thane Rosenbaum

U.S. News

Amar’e Stoudemire inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

“For 20 years prior, secretly, I was learning Torah, I was learning the Bible, the biblical understanding of history, and I wanted to go to a place where I can live and also play,” the NBA legend said of his time playing in Israel.

Aug. 17, 2026

Andrew Bernard

Wandering Nation

Pakistan’s vanished Jewish legacy

The Jews helped build Karachi, the country’s capital and largest city, before prejudice finally forced them out.

Aug. 9, 2026

Michael Freund

Opinion

Why the anti-Israel left keeps siding with authoritarian regimes

The Cold War doctrine of “campism” now influences how parts of the American left perceive Israel.

Aug. 11, 2026

Tirza Shorr
The Wire
Newsletter
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Rabbi Yehudah Glick: Something big is happening on the Temple Mount

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Steve Linde is the JNS features editor and former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. Born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa, he made aliyah in 1988 and served in the IDF. A Jerusalem resident, he regularly interviews leading voices in the pro-Israel and Jewish spheres at the JNS Media Hub.

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Steve Linde, the JNS features editor, is a former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report and a former head of Kol Yisrael English News. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, he grew up in Durban, South Africa, and has degrees in sociology and journalism. He made aliyah in 1988, served in IDF Artillery and lives in Jerusalem.

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Palm Beach County worker accused of Nazi salute, ‘Heil Hitler’ remark

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Netanyahu’s office scorns Turkish regime threat to arrest PM

“Erdoğan is an antisemitic dictator who has massacred Kurds, harbors Hamas terrorists, occupies half of Cyprus, and jails record numbers of journalists.”

August 22, 2026 12:30 PM

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‘Deeply disturbing, unacceptable,’ Surfside, Fla. rabbi says of alleged antisemitic assault

Rabbi Gavriel Koskas of Magen David Congregation of Surfside-Bal Harbour told JNS that it appeared to be an “isolated incident” that shouldn’t define the beach town.

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Grossinger’s Catskills resort to be redeveloped as year-round destination

The 1,029-acre former Jewish vacation resort, which closed in 1986 and inspired the film “Dirty Dancing,” will feature new golf, equestrian, hospitality, residential and wellness facilities.

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