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“This is exactly what the Jewish community needs right now,” Lisa Brenner told JNS of her new film “One Big Happy Family.” “We need something to make us feel good about ourselves.”
The carrier will offer daily non-stop service from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Speaking at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel, the secretary of state voices “healthy optimism” the Trump deal will be fully implemented.
The senator told JNS that the rabbi was “very substantive, but the depth of his personal friendship and his commitment to people was remarkable.”
“Identifying Iran’s complex financial lifelines and shadow networks is an essential part of cutting off the funding for their military, weapons programs and terrorist proxies,” per the U.S. Treasury Department.
“They said that what he did is not even a crime,” the U.S. president said. “That he was persecuted by the Biden administration, and so I gave him a pardon.”
Republicans and Democrats grilled Amer Ghalib, the Trump administration’s nominee to be ambassador to Kuwait, over his views about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.
The former “Fox News” host, who regularly shares antisemitic messages, pivoted often to denouncing Israel at a Turning Point USA event in Indiana.
The former New York governor asked Mamdani why he supports BDS against Israel but not Uganda.
Katie Wilson, a self-described socialist, has also accused Israel of “genocide” and said she’s open to boycotting the Jewish state.
The nonprofit’s CEO intends to step down on June 30, 2026. “It will be impossible to fill his shoes,” a former B’nai B’rith International president stated.
Georgia Alexakis, a U.S. district court judge, stated that “the plaintiffs have failed to establish the likelihood of success on the merits of the claims that they advance.”