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Thursday, June 22, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Deborah Lipstadt attend an “Efforts on Combating Antisemitism” briefing at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on June 15, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

from the editor in chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt

Mainstream Jewish groups and their allies in the Biden administration are determined to avoid taking on left-wing Jew-haters.

A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet lands at Kubinka Air Base. Credit: Fasttailwind/Shutterstock.

US Air Force commander: Iran-Russia relationship ‘certainly a concern’

Not only is it a concern to the Pentagon, but it threatens Israel, said Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Middle East.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews new nuclear achievements during the country’s National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, April 10, 2021. Credit: Iranian Presidency Office.

‘Biden is playing for time on Iran’s nuclear program’

Washington’s emerging nuclear agreement with Iran is deeply flawed and seeks mainly to put the matter on ice until after the November elections, experts tell JNS.

Friends and family attend the funeral of 21-year-old Israeli Harel Masood, who was killed in a terror attack near the near the Jewish settlement of Eli, in the cemetery in Yesodot, on June 20, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

IDF mulls larger op as Judea and Samaria security crumbles

This week’s deadly Eli shootings indicate that murderous Palestinian terrorism is spreading south from its epicenter in Jenin as the power vacuum in the area grows.

The home of Palestinian terrorist Kamel Jouri being demolished in Nablus on June 22, 2023. Credit: IDF.

Israel demolishes home of IDF soldier’s killer

The IDF also mapped for destruction the Nablus homes of the terrorists who killed four Israeli civilians near Eli.

Likud MK Amit Halevi in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Source: Twitter

Likud Knesset member’s plan spotlights discrimination on Temple Mount

Knesset member Amit Halevi floated the idea earlier this month of recognizing separate areas on the Temple Mount for the two faiths.

Participants in the MirYam Institute's Israel Strategy and Policy program visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, June 2023. Credit: Photoagency.

US, Canadian military cadets tour Israel

The two-week Israel Strategy and Policy program also saw them visit death camps in Poland.

Etgar Lefkovits

A Cambodian woman takes her kids to school on a motorbike in a small village at the Angkor Wat temple complex, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Feb. 26, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Nonprofit founded by Australian Jewish family changes lives in Cambodia

Five young Cambodians assisted by the nonprofit recently spent time in Australia, including attending a Shabbat dinner.

Georgia L. Gilholy

Amri Wandel of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the vice president of the World Esperanto Association with Dr. Margaret Zaleski-Zamenhof, great-granddaughter of L.L. Zamenhof, founder of Esperanto. Credit: Courtesy.

Speakers of Esperanto, which has Jewish origins, to convene in Italy

“Esperanto was born in the same era that the modern Hebrew revival was,” said Amri Wandel of Hebrew University.

Ethnic studies. Credit: Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com.

Report: ‘Radical roots’ of California ethnic-studies curriculum

The Golden State spent $55 million in taxpayer funds in 2021-22 on programs that dub police officers “pigs,” California “occupied Mexico” and Jews oppressors.

Florida to investigate Morningstar for potential BDS practices

A senior state board official told JNS meetings were held this week to understand the ramifications of Florida’s amended anti-BDS law.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits soldiers and a K-9 unit, injured during an IDF raid of Jenin at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center on June 19, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Israeli soldier, K-9 recover together in hospital

A Hermes 450 drone of the type reportedly used by Israel to target three Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria on June 22, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Israel kills 3 terrorists in Samaria drone strike

The new Hamore neighborhood in Samaria. Source: Twitter.

New outpost established near site of Samaria terror attack

Druze protest against the construction of a wind farm near Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Druze leaders demand Netanyahu halt wind-farm project

A Tzohar Rabbinical Organization certificate that reads at the bottom: “This restaurant does not have a kashrut certificate from the Rabbinate.” Photo by Sara Meckler.

Court paves way for alternative kashrut supervision of imports

Dr. Moran Rubinstein. Credit: Tel Aviv University.

Israeli research offers hope for kids with Dravet syndrome

The mural at Ben-Gurion International Airport is 50 meters long and five meters high. Credit: ILAN Spokesperson.

Giant mural at Ben-Gurion Airport tells the story of the Jewish people

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf. Source: Twitter.

Israeli national security adviser hosts US Mideast envoy

Official portrait of Michael Gove, U.K. secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. Photo by Simon Dawson/No. 10 Downing Street.

UK anti-BDS bill threatens fines for boycotting Israel

Palestinian fighters in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 27, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Pew: Americans worry more about international terror than unemployment

Isador and Ida Straus and a monument to him. The couple chose to die together. Photo by Perry Bindelglass.

Oceangate CEO’s wife descended from famous Jewish ‘Titanic’ passengers

Will Hurd, a former Republican congressman from Texas and a former undercover CIA official, at the LBJ Presidential Library on April 11, 2022. Photo by Jay Godwin/LBJ Library.

Former congressman Will Hurd announces 2024 campaign

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, waves to children at a Lag B'Omer parade in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 17, 1987. Credit: Mordecai Baron via Wikimedia Commons.

Chabad expects 50,000 to visit Rebbe’s burial site on 29th yahrzeit

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in Jerusalem ahead of the official opening of the U.S. embassy, May 13, 2018. Credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Trump: No Jared and Ivanka roles in future administration

POdcast

The Jews are the indigenous people of Israel

Jonathan S. Tobin

Fireworks. Credit: Pixabay.

featured column

Steve Rosenberg

Independence Day: A tale of two nations

While the United States and Israel share the common thread of independence, their historical contexts, cultural traditions and challenges have shaped contrasting approaches to their respective celebrations.

Melanie Phillips

Israel’s American ‘frenemy’

If Netanyahu won’t alert Americans to their government’s abandonment of Israel, U.S. politicians must step up to the plate.

The Saudi two-step

The question is whether it is better to ally with both Saudi Arabias or neither.

Abigail R. Esman

Does the jihadist threat still exist?

Despite media indifference, Islamic terrorism continues apace in Europe and the U.S.

Khamenei pushes to arm Palestinians in Judea and Samaria

Every attack in Gaza or Judea and Samaria reinforces Iran's determination to implement the Supreme Leader’s call to arm Palestinian terror factions.

Irina Tsukerman

BDS ‘delocalizes’ the Palestinian cause

No longer focusing exclusively on the Palestinians, an anti-Israel nexus is now focused on tainting Israel’s cybersecurity industry in the eyes of the world.

A makeshift shrine to the victims of the mass shooting at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Credit: Brendt A. Petersen.

Wire

Synagogue massacre trial: A dark chapter in U.S. history

The Focus Project

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