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Kayla Mamelak Altus told JNS that Eric Adams comforted her after Oct. 7 and empathized with her as a Jew as few others could.
The State Department said “hostilities have largely subsided” in the southern province of Suwayda, but the security situation remains “unpredictable.”
Moshe Hill, an Orthodox Jew, told JNS that he hopes to “stem the tide” of New York City politics spilling over into the county on Long Island.
Supporters of Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa “hold the 11% blocking Cuomo from winning the race,” the Suffolk University Political Research Center wrote Monday.
“Just because it’s ‘quiet’ out there, that doesn’t mean we’re actually safe,” the rabbi of a Conservative congregation in the city told JNS.
Rep. Randy Fine told JNS that he stands by his criticism of Doha despite a letter from the Qatari ambassador to the United States.
“ISIS relies on supporters, like the defendants, to sponsor its terrorist aims,” a U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York stated.
In a one-on-one interview in his office, the Israeli prime minister puts Hamas on notice, saying the Jewish state can do things the easy or hard way.
“I think it’s obviously highly offensive,” a law professor at Cornell University told the “New York Post.”
An initial inquiry found that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon “deliberately fired at the drone and downed it,” the IDF said.
The monitoring operation, established with IDF support, began amid renewed violence in Gaza and tensions surrounding the return of Israeli hostages.
The Trump plan could turn into nothing more than a hostage-release deal if full U.S. backing is not ensured for enforcing the disarmament of the Strip.