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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stressed that “Operation Economic Fury” against Tehran would continue.
The president reiterated his commitment to bringing all 48 captives home.
“We also have a September 11. We remember October 7. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered flags at half mast to honor the founder of Turning Point USA, who was shot and killed at an event in Utah.
Yaron Ayalon says Fairfield University in Connecticut provides an alternative for the region’s Jewish students: “You don’t have to send your kids to the south, because there’s also a cost involved—a mental cost.”
The founder of Turning Point USA was speaking at Utah Valley University.
Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tenn., was “motivated by a violent ideology,” said the U.S. assistant attorney general for national security.
The hearing “largely downplayed the true scope of antisemitism in our city,” stated Debra Silverstein, the only Jewish city alderman, and 24 of her colleagues.
“The return of the 48 hostages and the complete removal of Hamas from Gaza are the necessary conditions for ending this war,” stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York.
Senate Abraham Accords Caucus co-chair James Lankford told JNS that he would “shudder to think” what Israel-Arab relations would be like amid war without the accords.
WFP aid is being looted at astronomical rates, leading a senior Trump administration official to accuse McCain of “wild incompetence.”
The Rosh Hashanah ceremony has taken place in nearby Mount Kisco, N.Y., for the past five years.
“There was a time when Jews could be murdered with impunity. But since the founding of the State of Israel, those days are over.”
