JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, August 18, 2023

Friday, August 18, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Actor Bradley Cooper plays musician Leonard Bernstein in the film "Maestro," which he directed. Source: YouTube screenshot of the film trailer.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

The problem isn’t Bradley Cooper’s nose

Even normally serious people are looking for antisemitism in the wrong places. Misplaced anger about a movie undermines the fight against genuine Jew-hatred.

A Jewish Federations of North America delegation visits a Jewish Agency for Israel summer camp in Ukraine, supported by JFNA funds. Credit: JFNA.

Federations mission lands in Ukraine, spends night in bomb shelter

The next morning, the delegation visited the places where they have been helping people live and escape, JNFA head Eric Fingerhut told JNS.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 17, 2023. Photo by Freddie Everett/U.S. State Department.

Dermer meeting with Blinken in Washington anything but routine

Vedant Patel, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman, answers questions at the department's Aug. 18, 2023 press briefing. Credit: YouTube screen shot.

State Dept: Worth naming ambassador to Israel despite Senate political football game

Sir Ben Kingsley at the 60th Berlin Film Festival on February 13, 2010. Photo by Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock.

Antisemitic incident report: Aug. 12-18

The blazes that swept through Lahaina on the island of Maui last week represented one of the most deadly fires in U.S. history. Photo courtesy of Ido Sarfati.

Federations to distribute $249,000 to Jewish organizations in Maui

The U.S. government approved the sale of the Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system to Germany. Credit: Israeli Defense Ministry.

78 years after the Shoah, Israel’s air defense system to protect Germany

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

A Pilate operation

To weaken Hezbollah, you have to weaken Iran

There was one small yet welcome development on that front when the United States announced sanctions against an ostensible environmentalist NGO (actually, a front for Hezbollah) called “Green Without Borders.”

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