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WATCH: Rare halo phenomenon spotted in Israel’s skies

The unusual sight can occur during heatwaves when light interacts with clouds at very high altitudes.

May. 2, 2026

JNS Staff

Analysis

The Beyachad gamble: Inside the Bennett-Lapid bid to topple Netanyahu

May. 2, 2026

Shimon Sherman

U.S. News

Board of Peace denies report that US-run Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel set to close

“The CMCC will continue to be mission critical to our efforts,” the international body led by President Trump said.

May. 2, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Hezbollah fires rockets, explosive drones at IDF soldiers

The Israeli military released footage showing a Lebanese terrorist eliminated at close range.

May. 2, 2026

JNS Staff
U.S.
U.S. News

Body of WWII airman returned to New York more than 80 years after his death

“It is a great honor to welcome home a New Yorker who fought and died for our country, and the freedom and rights we have today,” said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

May. 3, 2026

U.S. News

Poll suggests most Jewish New Yorkers oppose Mamdani policies, connect rising Jew-hatred and normalized anti-Zionism

“We’re not seeing any indication that a large part of the Jewish community supports anti-Zionism,” Jonathan Schulman, of Jewish Majority, which conducted the survey, told JNS.

May. 3, 2026

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Antisemitism

Watchdog: Antisemitic graffiti greets passengers in NY subway

“Those responsible must be found and investigated before words turn into action,” the Combat Antisemitism Movement said.

May. 3, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Israel approves procurement of two fighter squadrons from the United States

Netanyahu: Israel to boost air power, invest in domestic arms production

May. 3, 2026

JNS Staff
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JK Rowling accuses MP Zarah Sultana of hypocrisy for condemning antisemitic stabbing

“I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey,” Rowling wrote.

Apr. 30, 2026

U.S. News

Brooklyn rabbi’s body found in closet in Bogota

Nachum Yisrael Eber, 51 was murdered by members of a local gang, authorities said.

Apr. 30, 2026

World News

UK professor faces backlash for justifying stabbing of Jews in Golders Green

Calls are mounting for the University of Portsmouth to act after a history professor posted on social media that “blowback is bad, but it is also inevitable.”

May. 1, 2026

World News

Peruvian president draws backlash for stating Jews ‘pushed’ Germany into WWII

“It is unbelievable that in the 21st century, arguments worthy of the dark ages are being used to blame the victims of their own Holocaust,” the Jewish Association of Peru stated.

May. 1, 2026
Antisemitism
World News

JK Rowling accuses MP Zarah Sultana of hypocrisy for condemning antisemitic stabbing

“I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey,” Rowling wrote.

Apr. 30, 2026

U.S. News

Mamdani shares video of keffiyeh-clad door knocker, raising questions, hackles of Jewish New Yorkers

“If we had produced anything like this, I would have been fired the next day,” Benny Polatseck, who worked in the creative communications department at City Hall under the former mayor, told JNS.

Apr. 30, 2026

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

U.S. News

‘Thought it was end of my life,’ says Jewish man attacked near Los Angeles synagogue

“People shouldn’t think that, ‘Oh this is not going to happen to me,’” the 32-year-old Judaic studies teacher told JNS. “It can happen to anyone walking the streets, anyone with their groceries.”

Apr. 29, 2026

Aaron Bandler

U.S. News

NY Jewish leaders call for probe after Jew-hatred at food coop meeting

At a Park Slope Food Coop meeting about boycotting Israel, a member, who reportedly compared Jews to Nazis, was applauded for saying that “Jewish supremacism is a problem in this country.”

May. 1, 2026
Jewish Life
Editor-in-Chief

Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.

Apr. 30, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Editor-in-Chief

Who’s to blame for declining American support for Israel?

The growing distaste for the Jewish state isn’t the fault of Netanyahu or Israeli behavior. It’s driven by forces seeking the destruction of the West and beyond the control of Jerusalem.

Apr. 29, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Opinion

Troubling practice: Discriminating against Jewish students in Israel’s medical schools

Young men and women who completed demanding military service for years, often carrying visible and invisible scars, find themselves at a disadvantage compared to peers who did not serve at all.

May. 1, 2026

Oshy Ellman

Opinion

Mali is over

The same faulty Western logic applied to the African country is also being applied to Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

May. 1, 2026

Shoshana Bryen
Features
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.

Apr. 30, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Senior Contributing Editor

The fallacy of ‘unity’

Israelis with contradictory views on crucial matters are never going to cease battling one another ideologically, and no constellation of musical chairs in the Knesset is going to alter that reality.

May. 3, 2026

Ruthie Blum

Opinion

Reflections on Israel at 78

It’s been a year when everything felt different.

May. 3, 2026

Judy Lash Balint

Opinion

Mali is over

The same faulty Western logic applied to the African country is also being applied to Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

May. 1, 2026

Shoshana Bryen
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WATCH: Rare halo phenomenon spotted in Israel’s skies

The unusual sight can occur during heatwaves when light interacts with clouds at very high altitudes.

May. 2, 2026

JNS Staff

Analysis

The Beyachad gamble: Inside the Bennett-Lapid bid to topple Netanyahu

May. 2, 2026

Shimon Sherman

U.S. News

Board of Peace denies report that US-run Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel set to close

“The CMCC will continue to be mission critical to our efforts,” the international body led by President Trump said.

May. 2, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Hezbollah fires rockets, explosive drones at IDF soldiers

The Israeli military released footage showing a Lebanese terrorist eliminated at close range.

May. 2, 2026

JNS Staff
U.S.
U.S. News

Body of WWII airman returned to New York more than 80 years after his death

“It is a great honor to welcome home a New Yorker who fought and died for our country, and the freedom and rights we have today,” said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

May. 3, 2026

U.S. News

Poll suggests most Jewish New Yorkers oppose Mamdani policies, connect rising Jew-hatred and normalized anti-Zionism

“We’re not seeing any indication that a large part of the Jewish community supports anti-Zionism,” Jonathan Schulman, of Jewish Majority, which conducted the survey, told JNS.

May. 3, 2026

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Antisemitism

Watchdog: Antisemitic graffiti greets passengers in NY subway

“Those responsible must be found and investigated before words turn into action,” the Combat Antisemitism Movement said.

May. 3, 2026

JNS Staff

Israel News

Israel approves procurement of two fighter squadrons from the United States

Netanyahu: Israel to boost air power, invest in domestic arms production

May. 3, 2026

JNS Staff
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World News

JK Rowling accuses MP Zarah Sultana of hypocrisy for condemning antisemitic stabbing

“I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey,” Rowling wrote.

Apr. 30, 2026

U.S. News

Brooklyn rabbi’s body found in closet in Bogota

Nachum Yisrael Eber, 51 was murdered by members of a local gang, authorities said.

Apr. 30, 2026

World News

UK professor faces backlash for justifying stabbing of Jews in Golders Green

Calls are mounting for the University of Portsmouth to act after a history professor posted on social media that “blowback is bad, but it is also inevitable.”

May. 1, 2026

World News

Peruvian president draws backlash for stating Jews ‘pushed’ Germany into WWII

“It is unbelievable that in the 21st century, arguments worthy of the dark ages are being used to blame the victims of their own Holocaust,” the Jewish Association of Peru stated.

May. 1, 2026
Antisemitism
World News

JK Rowling accuses MP Zarah Sultana of hypocrisy for condemning antisemitic stabbing

“I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey,” Rowling wrote.

Apr. 30, 2026

U.S. News

Mamdani shares video of keffiyeh-clad door knocker, raising questions, hackles of Jewish New Yorkers

“If we had produced anything like this, I would have been fired the next day,” Benny Polatseck, who worked in the creative communications department at City Hall under the former mayor, told JNS.

Apr. 30, 2026

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

U.S. News

‘Thought it was end of my life,’ says Jewish man attacked near Los Angeles synagogue

“People shouldn’t think that, ‘Oh this is not going to happen to me,’” the 32-year-old Judaic studies teacher told JNS. “It can happen to anyone walking the streets, anyone with their groceries.”

Apr. 29, 2026

Aaron Bandler

U.S. News

NY Jewish leaders call for probe after Jew-hatred at food coop meeting

At a Park Slope Food Coop meeting about boycotting Israel, a member, who reportedly compared Jews to Nazis, was applauded for saying that “Jewish supremacism is a problem in this country.”

May. 1, 2026
Jewish Life
Editor-in-Chief

Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.

Apr. 30, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Editor-in-Chief

Who’s to blame for declining American support for Israel?

The growing distaste for the Jewish state isn’t the fault of Netanyahu or Israeli behavior. It’s driven by forces seeking the destruction of the West and beyond the control of Jerusalem.

Apr. 29, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Opinion

Troubling practice: Discriminating against Jewish students in Israel’s medical schools

Young men and women who completed demanding military service for years, often carrying visible and invisible scars, find themselves at a disadvantage compared to peers who did not serve at all.

May. 1, 2026

Oshy Ellman

Opinion

Mali is over

The same faulty Western logic applied to the African country is also being applied to Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

May. 1, 2026

Shoshana Bryen
Features
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief

Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.

Apr. 30, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Senior Contributing Editor

The fallacy of ‘unity’

Israelis with contradictory views on crucial matters are never going to cease battling one another ideologically, and no constellation of musical chairs in the Knesset is going to alter that reality.

May. 3, 2026

Ruthie Blum

Opinion

Reflections on Israel at 78

It’s been a year when everything felt different.

May. 3, 2026

Judy Lash Balint

Opinion

Mali is over

The same faulty Western logic applied to the African country is also being applied to Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

May. 1, 2026

Shoshana Bryen
JNS TV
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Newsletter
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Points of view from across the Jewish world

Jonathan S. Tobin

Jonathan S. Tobin

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Ruthie Blum

Senior Contributing Editor

Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein

Senior Contributing Editor

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Senior Contributor

Iran blockade Epic Fury

Editor-in-Chief

Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.

Apr. 30, 2026

Jonathan S. Tobin

Ephraim Sneh addresses the Meir Dagan Conference on Security and Strategy at the Netanya Academic College, March 21, 2018. Photo by Meir Vaaknin/Flash90.

Senior Contributing Editor

The self-anointed ‘good’ Israelis

Ephraim Sneh may be a Knesset has-been, but his attitude isn’t the least bit passé in certain snobbish circles.

Apr. 26, 2026

European activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza intercepted by the IDF near Crete, May 1, 2026. Credit: Israel Foreign Ministry/X.

Senior Contributing Editor

The deafening lies about Israel and the Jews

From Lebanon to a Gaza flotilla, distortion dominates public discourse while reality is cast aside.

May. 3, 2026

Fiamma Nirenstein

Mark Rowley Golders Green attack Jews UK United Kingdom

Column

The Palestinian laundromat

Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself.

Apr. 30, 2026

Melanie Phillips

Manchester March 2024

Diaspora Jewry

Don’t look up?

The clouds in the Diaspora are darkening. Where is the Jewish community en masse? Where are the politicians and protection?

May. 2, 2026

Israeli high-tech industry. Credit: xtock/Shutterstock.

Military Aid

AIPAC at the frontier: A stronger alliance in the post-aid era

America’s pro-Israel lobby has been written off before. The next chapter—built on technology, industrial integration and shared strategic competition—should be consequential.

May. 1, 2026

Opinion

Peacefire now!

Opinion

The Passover seder and the plague of loneliness

Rabbi Moshe Hauer

Gregg Roman. Credit: Courtesy.

Opinion

Iran’s attack on Israel was a direct result of American weakness

Opinion

The perils of a ‘revitalized’ Palestinian Authority

Opinion

Jewish Democrats, wake up!

Jonathan Bronitsky

Nathan Lewin

Opinion

Will Columbia’s law-school dean learn the law of free speech?

Opinion

Searching for meaning in a post-Oct. 7 Pesach

Rabbi Warren Goldstein

Opinion

Israel hits targets in Iran on ayatollah’s birthday

Daniel Greenfield

Bruce Heitler

Opinion

Caution: Samson is Israel

Opinion

Jewish powerlessness is a choice