JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, December 22, 2023

Friday, December 22, 2023


	The Daily Syndicate

From left: Claudine Gay (Harvard University president), Elizabeth Magill (University of Pennsylvania president), American University professor Pamela Nadell and Sally Kornbluth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology president) testify during a House committee hearing about antisemitism on campus on Dec. 5, 2023. Source: House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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Jonathan S. Tobin

Why aren’t Jewish groups fighting DEI-based antisemitism?

The stand of the former ADL and AJC heads against woke ideology is encouraging. But major Jewish organizations still back ideas that breed hate.

US changes finally clear, UN Security Council votes to expedite aid to Gaza

Mike Wagenheim

U.N. headquarters in New York City. Credit: James Steidl/Shutterstock.

‘Delusional inversion,’ experts say of Albanese’s comments to JNS

Mike Wagenheim

U.N. envoy Francesca Albanese speaks at a U.N. Human Rights Council press conference, July 2023. Source: U.N. Human Rights Council/YouTube.

Not an international crime to kill soldiers, UN’s Francesca Albanese says of Oct. 7

Mike Wagenheim

Jordan intercepts armed drone Iran-backed militia fires at Israel

Yaakov Lappin

A military vehicle on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on Dec. 21, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Gadi Haggai, 73, is first US citizen confirmed killed as Hamas hostage

The terror organization continues to hold Haggai’s body, and his wife reportedly also remains a Hamas hostage.

IDF troops engage in fierce Gaza battles, seize weapons stockpiles

Israeli forces operating in Gaza City found mortars and explosives inside a house next to a kindergarten.

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Police at the scene of a car-ramming terror attack near Maccabim on Aug. 31, 2023. Photo by Jonathan Shaul/Flash90.

Israeli injured in car-ramming attack

Protesters in Toronto call for a ceasefire on Oct. 28, 2023. Credit: nadtochiy/Shutterstock.

Something ‘clearly wrong’ when Hamas praises Canadian foreign policy

Dave Gordon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with representatives of bereaved families from the Heroism Forum, Dec. 21, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu to bereaved families: Your children did not die in vain

The “USS Carney” guided-missile destroyer defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea on Oct. 19, 2023. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau.

J’lem to work with US but retain operational freedom in Red Sea

Ariel Kahana

Claudine Gay (center), the president of Harvard University, testifies during a House committee hearing about antisemitism on campus on Dec. 5, 2023. Credit: House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

‘Daily Mail’: 56% of likely US voters say Harvard, MIT heads should resign over Jew-hatred policies

Staff and kids take part in a missile attack drill during a national IDF Home Front Command drill at Batra Kindergarten in Katzrin, the Golan Heights, Feb. 22, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Signs of a long war

Judy Lash Balint

Jews in Judea and Samaria fear return of Palestinian workers

Judith Segaloff

Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Credit: Courtesy of Rachel Goldberg.

A mother prays for a sign of life from her captive son

Amelie Botbol

Catholics take part in a Virgin Mary procession in Haifa, April 30, 2023. Photo by Shir Torem/Flash90.

Christian population in Israel up 1.3% last year

Israeli troops operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Dec. 21, 2023. Credit: IDF.

Friends of the IDF ships 150 tons of winter clothing, gear to troops

Dr. Abigail Henkin-Wei, an emergency-room doctor in West Virginia, volunteers at Magen David Adom in Ashkelon, November 2023. Credit: Nefesh B’Nefesh.

The medical specialists who left all behind to volunteer in Israel

Maytal Yasur Beit-Or

A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Dec. 21, 2023. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem

Yori Yalon

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Dry Bones

Resupplying Hamas

"Shabbat Fish" (2003) by Mark Podwal. Acrylic and colored pencil on paper. Credit: Mark Podwal.

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Mark Podwal

‘Shabbat Fish’

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U.S.-made MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles on display at a military parade in Tel Aviv in 1965. Credit: Avraham Amir via Wikimedia Commons.

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Caroline B. Glick

Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine

It will take years to correct the damage the generals wrought by reducing the size of the IDF and inducing its total dependence on the United States

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Ben Cohen

Arrests of Hamas suspects underline Jewish insecurity in Europe

The terrorist organization retains an ample presence there but has thus far restricted its activities to propaganda and fundraising.

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Israeli troops operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Dec. 20, 2023. Credit: IDF.

Conflicting narratives and consequences of the Hamas war target Israel

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