JNS The Daily Syndicate - Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Tuesday, September 5, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Then-President Donald Trump speaks on a video screen during the opening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

featured column

Jonathan S. Tobin

Must Jews ‘repent’ for voting for Trump?

Though a respected historian claims that backing the former president and Israel’s religious parties is “immoral,” politics is not a binary choice between good and evil.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Sept. 5, 2023. Credit: GPO/Haim Zach.

‘A milestone moment’: Papua New Guinea opens embassy in Jerusalem

The Israeli prime minister said the development “will help us realize our potential,” voicing the hope that Israeli entrepreneurs and tourists alike visit and do business with the South Pacific nation.

Etgar Lefkovits

Apples and honey, a pomegranate and a shofar, all traditionally involved with the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Credit: Tomertu/Shutterstock.

In divisive times, Jewish leaders mostly optimistic as High Holidays approach

A congressman, rabbis and Jewish nonprofit heads also shared some of their personal resolutions for the coming year.

Menachem Wecker

Prayer book. Credit: Yedidiak/Pixabay.

Rabbis to offer sermons on everything from AI to Ukraine on High Holidays

And a cantor at a New York Reform congregation will perform “L’dor V’dor,” corresponding to the rabbi’s talk about intergenerational friendship.

Sergio Carmona

Security personnel at the scene of a shooting attack on a bus on Route 90 in the Jordan Valley, Sept. 4, 2022. Credit: Flash90.

Terrorist wounds Israeli policeman in Jordan Valley

Jack Lew, then U.S. treasury secretary, on a visit to Ukraine on Nov. 13, 2015. Photo by Sergey Starostenko/Shutterstock.

Biden nominates Jack Lew as next US ambassador to Israel

Seyed Hussein Mousavian discusses “Nuclear Iran: Negotiating a Way Out,” on Feb. 4, 2013. Credit: Chatham House via Wikimedia Commons.

Congress launches probe into Iranian nuclear negotiator at military symposium

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Jerusalem press conference on Jan. 30, 2023. Photo by Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/POOL.

Blinken holds phone calls with Netanyahu, Abbas 

Mourners attend the funeral of IDF Sgt. Maksym Molchanov at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Sept. 5, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS.

Hundreds gather for funeral of IDF lone-soldier terror victim

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid in 2022. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO via Wikimedia Commons.

In US, Lapid criticizes Israeli government’s handling of security issues

View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field's gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea on Jan. 31, 2019. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90

Netanyahu’s visit to Cyprus raises natural-gas issue

Amichai Stein

A display of copies of Adolf Hitler's book “Mein Kampf.” Source: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Just a bit of fun,’ British woman says of ‘Miss Hitler’ contest

Using art as a backdrop for tattoo art. Credit: Dillon Meyer/Healing Ink.

Documentary: Tattoos can serve as a salve for Israeli war, terror victims

Mike Wagenheim

Musk, ADL blame each other for antisemitism on former Twitter

Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, March 9, 2016. Credit: Flash90.

Abbas blames America for Israeli counterterror raids

Eritrean asylum-seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea and pro-regime activists clash with police in south Tel Aviv, Sept. 2, 2023. Photo by Omer Fichman/Flash90.

Israel detains 53 Eritreans after Tel Aviv riot

Memorial candle. credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

Los Angeles-based Jewish philanthropist Elissa Czuker dies at 53

The Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pennsylvania seeks to accelerate spring primary to avoid Passover conflict

A Wizz Air flight prepares to take off from Ben-Gurion International Airport, Sept. 3, 2014. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Tel Aviv to London flight lands in Serbia after passenger attacks crew

opinion

Tamar Sternthal

Tailspinning journalism

The journalistic contortions in Suhauna Hussain’s Los Angeles Times coverage of an anti-Israel demonstration.

Gary S. Branfman

CUNY doubles down on antisemitism

The City University of New York must be held accountable for advancing antisemitism and its failure to fight discrimination against Jews.

Follow us

Instagram

YouTube

Unsubscribe | Update My Preferences | View In Browser | Contact Us

© 2025 JNS, All Rights Reserved