JNS The Daily Syndicate - Thursday, June 29, 2023

Thursday, June 29, 2023


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JCC Maccabi Games participants. Credit JCC Association of North America.

Haifa to host world’s largest Jewish teen sports competition

The event seeks to strengthen the youths' identity before they head to college.

Etgar Lefkovits

Seminar participants outside the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center in Ramat Hasharon, June 2023. Photo: Courtesy of AFIICC.

Diaspora leaders take deep dive into Israeli intelligence world

The American Friends of the Israel Intelligence Heritage Center holds its first high-level seminar.

Rolene Marks

Maya Ungar, a junior at Brandeis University. Credit: Courtesy.

Controversial Brandeis ‘Times’ ad not reflective of Orthodox life on campus, students say

“It’s a reminder that you can’t be too careful in the marketing business,” Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna told JNS.

Bradley Martin

A terrorist carries the Islamic State's flag overlooking Dabiq in Syria, in 2013. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

A rejuvenated Iran-Al-Qaeda link poses new security threats

Salafi jihadist organizations like ISIS and Al Qaeda haven't vanished, terrorism experts warn, and continue to try and recruit within Israel itself.

Yaakov Lappin

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides in his office, October 2022. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.

Nides: No understandings with Iran on ‘less-for-less’ deal

In an exclusive interview, the outgoing U.S. envoy says reports of a "less for less" deal with Iran are simply untrue.

Ariel Kahana

Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue, June 29, 2023. Photo: Yossi Zeliger/TPS.

Photo essay: Tel Aviv celebrates White City architecture

Tel Aviv is celebrating the 20th anniversary of UNESCO's designation of the White City as a World Heritage site.

Soldiers dig in at a Grilling for IDF shindig. Photo: Courtesy.

Grilling for the IDF

Volunteers regularly cook up a storm to thank the warriors who keep them safe.

Josh Hasten

U.S. Supreme Court building. Photo by Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.

‘Moore v. Harper’ decision ‘middle of the road,’ says constitutional scholar

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there are limits on the degree to which state legislatures can set legislative lines.

David Swindle

The Supreme Court of the United States. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Orthodox Union: In ‘Groff v DeJoy,’ Supreme Court ‘finally’ righted a wrong

The high court unanimously ruled in favor of a religious postman who sought to arrange his schedule so he didn’t have to work on his Sabbath.

latest news

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 7, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Blinken: Judea and Samaria violence makes Israeli-Saudi peace ‘tougher, if not impossible’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

Palestinian Authority may declare bankruptcy

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant congratulates cadet graduates at the Bahad 1 officers training base near Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev, June 28, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Reservist boycotts endanger Israel’s security, defense minister says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, April 10, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Netanyahu reboots judicial reform, but sans override clause

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Jan. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Video on fake news on Israel elicits journalists protest

The Iranian mastermind of the Cypriot terror plot against Israelis, Yusef Shahabazi Abbasalilu. Source: Twitter.

Mossad abducted Cyprus hit-squad head in Iran

U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at a press briefing in the White House, Jan. 4, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

White House worried Jerusalem leaking info on Iran talks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset debate, June 26, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Israel could easily be among world’s 10 top economies’

An Iron Dome battery in Ashkelon fires interceptor missiles at rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, Aug. 7, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu says Israel will not provide Ukraine Iron Dome

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) view of the surface morphology of biofilm formed by S. mutans after 24 hours untreated (left) and treated (right) with 0.5 M DIM. Images are shown at 5,000 magnification. Photos by Ariel Kushmaro.

Israeli scientists identify molecule preventing dental cavities

Sharks have increasingly made their home along Israel’s shores. Photo by Hagai Nativ/University of Haifa’s Morris Kahn Marine Research Station.

Mako shark found dead on Caesarea beach

The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team special edition jersey was inspired by the Israel National Trail. Credit: Israel-Premier Tech.

Israel’s Tour de France jerseys inspired by National Trail

Israel’s Under-21 soccer team punches its ticket to the European Championship quarterfinals by beating the Czech Republic, June 28, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Israel’s Under-21 soccer team scores huge upset in European Championship

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Iranian President Ebbrahim Raisi in Beijing on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Netanyahu: Beijing’s growing clout could ‘compel’ US to stay in Mideast

Dan Shapiro in 2017. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Dan Shapiro to lead US efforts to integrate Israel regionally

Pew: 87% of Israelis has positive view of America

President Joe Biden welcomes President Isaac Herzog to the Oval Office, Oct. 26, 2022. Source: POTUS/Twitter.

Herzog to address Congress on July 19

U.S. Capitol building. Credit: Gagan Kaur/Pexels.

32 Jewish groups urge Congress to accelerate action on infertility

Aspen Ideas Festival. Credit: www.aspenideas.org.

At Aspen Ideas Festival, White House panel bypasses mention of Israel

The front sign of the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District. Credit: Ovinus Real via Wikimedia Commons.

Deborah Project files another lawsuit against a California school district

Some 50 students visited the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., as part d a summer international-relations program sponsored by Georgetown University, June 27, 2023. Source: Twitter.

International Relations Academy high-schoolers visit Israeli embassy in DC

World ORT elects new chair, board of trustees, officers

the pulpit

The U.S. military is reportedly supplying Ukraine with artillery rounds pulled from stockpiles based in Israel. Credit: National Guard of Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons.

analysis

Yair Ramati and Yaakov Lappin

Lessons from the Ukraine war

Active defense suites on armored vehicles have become essential.

View of the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. Photo: Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90

featured column

Melanie Phillips

It’s time to dismantle the United Nations

The moral corruption of this global body has knocked the free world off its compass.

Lawrence Solomon

The Druze or the Paris Agreement?

Does Israel have a greater responsibility to “the international community” than to its own Druze population?

Dan Schnur

A future Jewish president?

Josh Shapiro, the newly elected Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, could break the glass ceiling.

Thane Rosenbaum

The rudderless Jews

In the United States, where crimes of hate mostly strike Jewish targets, and with violent antisemitism making a disquieting comeback, no one stands guard on the wall.

Clifford D. May

Yes, Xi Jinping is a dictator

And he should be proud of it!

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Law professor: Netanyahu’s case is an embarrassment to Israel’s judicial system

Caroline Glick

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