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Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is the international body’s agency to aid refugees.

However a unique and special agency, called the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), was created to provide direct assistance specifically and only for Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendants.

UNRWA is the only U.N. agency that is dedicated to helping refugees from a specific region or conflict. Its schools have become a shameless tool of Hamas and anti-Jewish hatred.

Although Jews make up an estimated 3.25% of California residents, anti-Jewish hate crimes made up almost 14.8% of all hate crimes in the state last year.
The new program will “definitely” help the many families struggling to pay rent, Eli Cohen, of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, told JNS.
The deal allocates the Allenby Compound—just a stone’s throw from the current embassy—for the construction of a permanent complex.
Jewish leaders told JNS that they were informed about anti-Israel language, including the party blaming the Jewish state for rising antisemitism, only when it was too late to make changes.
“It’s a win-win outcome for the American people,” said the vice president.
The move, which would be a major success for faith-based diplomacy, comes amid a tide of Latin American countries reshaping their alliances towards the United States and Israel.