JNS The Daily Syndicate - Monday, October 2, 2023

Monday, October 2, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2015. Credit: U.S. Mission/Eric Bridiers.

featured column

Jonathan S. Tobin

Who lost the battle to stop Iran’s nuclear quest?

If Iran can make a bomb in two weeks, then the game is over. It took 20 years of bad decisions to make this a reality

New-generation centrifuges on display in Tehran during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day, April 10, 2021. Credit: Iranian Presidency Office/WANA.

Blame all around for Iranian proximity to nukes

The Pentagon’s recent announcement that Iran is less than two weeks away from having the materials for a nuclear bomb is significant, although it’s not necessarily breaking news.

Menachem Wecker

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

Israeli, Saudi sources: US focus on Palestinians harming normalization

Ariel Kahana

The antisemitic assault on Joseph Borgen in New York City on May 21, 2021. Source: Screenshot.

Guilty pleas: Attackers of Jewish man in New York face years behind bars

Palestinians attack Israeli security personnel near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, April 13, 2022. Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Terrorists wound Israeli at Joseph’s Tomb

Andrés Roemer. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israel arrests former Mexican diplomat wanted for sexual assault

The Israeli community of Asael in the South Hebron Hills, June 6, 2012. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Palestinian terrorists open fire on Jewish village near Hebron

Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant welcomes U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ben-Gurion International Airport on March 9, 2023. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Israel Defense Ministry.

Gallant to meet Austin in Washington

U.S. postal stamps featuring the late Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg . Credit: U.S. Postal Service.

US Postal Service releases stamp honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg

David Swindle

From the stage production, “Best Friends,” part of the Stav Festival in New York City from Sept. 28 through Oct. 29, 2023. Photo by Ohad Kab.

Arts festival encourages New Yorkers to meet the Israeli artist next door

Mike Wagenheim

Jews pack the area in front of Jerusalem’s Western Wall for the Birkat Kohanim Priestly Blessing during Sukkot, Oct. 8, 2017. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

50,000 receive Priestly Blessing at Western Wall

Shlomo Filber, former director general of the Communications Ministry, testifies in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial at the Jerusalem District Court, June 15, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90,

State’s witness in PM trial will likely be prosecuted

Amir Ettinger

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends morning prayers in Safed, Feb. 6, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli chief rabbi says secular Jews who eat non-kosher ‘get stupid’

A watchtower at Gilboa Prison in northern Israel, Feb. 28, 2013. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Female IDF soldiers will no longer guard prisons after sex scandal

Moroccan Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water and Forests Mohamed Sadiqi and Israeli Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Avi Dichter in Marrakesh, Sept. 28, 2023. Credit: Israeli Ministry of Agriculture.

Rabat and Jerusalem sign agricultural accord

Sveta Listratov

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

US: ‘Basic framework’ for Israel-Saudi peace in place

Thousands rally in New York City against appeasing Iran at the time of the first nuclear deal signed in 2015. Credit: A Katz/Shutterstock.

US: Tehran can make nuclear bomb in less than two weeks

From left: Israel Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi visit the IAF control center, Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu convenes top security chiefs amid elevated threats

Fijian pilgrims arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Sept. 29, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of ICEJ.

Fiji to open embassy in Jerusalem in early 2024

Etgar Lefkovits

Israel Border Police officers stand guard as Jews visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 9, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Three Palestinians arrested for harassing Jews atop Temple Mount

This rubber boat with documents belonging to foreign nationals washed ashore near Netanya, Oct. 1, 2023. Credit: Israel Police Spokesperson.

Israel searching for survivors as empty migrant boat washes ashore

Pesach Benson

Explosions in Damascus destroy an arms depot belonging to Iranian-backed groups, Aug. 13, 2023. Credit: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

IDF strikes Iranian arms shipment near Damascus

The entrance to Kibbutz Meirav in Israel, six miles southwest of Beit She'an. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Israelis enter Palestinian village after their kibbutz comes under fire

Inside the National Library of Israel. Credit: Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect.

Israel’s National Library cancels logo change after outcry

Yair Hanoch at a light rail station near the Old City of Jerusalem, shortly before he was arrested, Oct. 1, 2023. Photo by Kobi Natan/TPS.

Israelis seeking to sacrifice lamb on Temple Mount arrested

Pesach Benson

Muslims prepare decorations and sweets to commemorate the birth of the prophet Muhammad, in the Old City (the "Casbah") of Nablus in Samaria, Sept. 26, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh /Flash90.

Israel adds hundreds of millions of shekels in aid to the Palestinians

Ariel Kahana

A woman holds a sign opposing antisemitism at a rally. Credit: AndriiKoval/Shutterstock.

Israelis develop AI-powered bot to fight antisemites online

Site of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Nazi concentration camp, March 16, 2016. Credit: Richard Mortel via Wikimedia Commons.

Czech Republic approves funds to restore, protect Terezin Holocaust site

The Chelsea FC Stadium, Stamford Bridge. Credit: Vespa125125CFC via Wikimedia Commons.

Chelsea Football Club launches fan group to encourage Jewish identity

First baseman Matt Mervis of Team Israel bats against Nicaragua at the World Baseball Classic in Miami, March 12, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Major League Baseball.

Israel places sixth in European Baseball Championship

Dov Broder and his wife, Batya, circa 1947. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Israel identifies remains of soldier slain in Independence War

A new headstone at Ipswich Old Cemetery in England honoring Kurt Erich Glauber, a former Jewish MI6 agent who died at Mauthausen, was unveiled at a memorial ceremony on Sept. 13, 2023. Photo by Stanley Kaye.

Ipswich honors British Jewish spy, caught and killed by Nazis

Veterinarians operate on an injured striped hyena at Israel's Wildlife Hospital in Ramat Gan, Oct. 1, 2023. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS.

Hyena gets new lease on life at Israeli hospital

Pesach Benson

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Time out

Dry Bones

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Dare to dream

Dry Bones

opinion

featured column

Benjamin Kerstein

Secular Israelis are mad as hell

A new compact between religious and secular Israelis must be forged, and soon.

Irit Tratt

The boundaries of liberal tolerance

Steve Rosenberg

Moving beyond the building

Farley Weiss and Leonard Grunstein

Zion and antisemitism

Douglas Altabef

To my secular brethren, what are you afraid of?

Phillip Jacobs

Daniel Gordis, Shalem College and the Tikvah Fund

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