JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, February 9, 2024

Friday, February 9, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, meets with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Jerusalem on Feb. 7, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Biden’s and Blinken’s words do real harm

A view of the Israeli and Syrian Hermon mountain range, along the Golan Heights, on Feb. 8, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

IDF ready for war to expand north, commander says

Yaakov Lappin

Texas A&M University in Education City, Al Rayyan, Qatar. Credit: Arwcheek via Wikimedia Commons.

Texas A&M to shutter Qatar campus

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the State Department in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Experts dismiss ‘Politico’ claim Blinken ‘too nice to be secretary of state’

Menachem Wecker

Mitch Albom’s new Holocaust novel is about ‘price we pay for the lies we tell’

Ellen Braunstein

A Palestinian man outside an UNRWA office in Gaza City protests cuts to aid, June 20, 2023. Photo by Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock.

Giant Hamas tunnel found under UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters

Ariel Kahana

Evan Gershkovich. Source: Twitter.

Putin on release of Evan Gershkovich: ‘I believe an agreement can be reached’

Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets visiting British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Oct. 19, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gidon/GPO.

UK to ban masks at protests amid wave of violent, antisemitic demonstrations

Andrew Bernard

U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Biden: Response in Gaza Strip ‘over the top’

Charles Bybelezer

Israeli minister of justice Amir Ohana speaks at the annual justice conference outside Tel Aviv on Sept. 3, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Knesset speaker snubs UN chief, Irish basketballers rebuff Israelis, LA youth leader likes one-state solution

David Swindle

Welcome sign to Las Vegas. Credit: lacarabeis/Pixabay.

Las Vegas City Council adopts IHRA definition

Filming the documentary on Howard and Lottie Marcus. Credit: Courtesy of the film, “Who Are the Marcuses?”

Warren Buffett, Shimon Peres laud benevolent couple in ‘Who Are the Marcuses?’

Howard Blas

IDF troops in Khan Yunis, February 2024. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

‘What is an existential war? It is an enemy alongside which you cannot exist’

Eyal Levi

The summit of Jay Peak shown from the northeast with an aerial tram near the top. Credit: HanumanIX via Wikimedia Commons.

Vermont resort sends five employees packing after Nazi-imagery photo

Irvine Civic Center, California. Credit: Azusa Tarn via Wikimedia Commons.

Orange County Jewish Federation leads summit to counter prejudice, bigotry

Customers at the Burger Ranch fast-food chain in Israel. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Israeli burger chains go strictly kosher to support soldiers, war effort

A Nazi gathering in Bariloche, Argentina, in the 1940s. Credit: Public Domain.

The mysterious death of an Israeli Nazi-hunter in Argentina

Itai Amikam

Israeli soldiers take part in "Operation Swords of Iron," December 2023. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

IDF launches fast-track haredi basic training program

Hanan Greenwood

More than 5,000 children from 42 Jewish communities in the Binyamin region of Samaria hold a mass prayer rally amid the war against Hamas, Feb. 8, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Thousands of Samaria children pray for IDF victory

Israeli refugees at the King Solomon Hotel in Eilat, Feb. 8, 2024. Photo by Amelie Botbol.

Evacuees from north and south struggle for semblance of normal life in Eilat

Amelie Botbol

Dr. Sergey Postovsky (left) and Dr. Marc Arkovitz of the Emek Medical Center in Afula. Credit: Emek Medical Center Spokesperson.

Israeli doctors remove 1.3-kilogram tumor from toddler

Pesach Benson

Shimon Biton feeds IDF soldiers at an army base. Credit: Courtesy,

‘Falafel King’ donates 25,000 portions to Israeli soldiers

Etgar Lefkovits

The ongoing exhibit at the museum in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Credit: Yeshiva University Museum.

Yeshiva U Museum adds historic items to Maimonides exhibit

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

cartoon

Dry Bones

The Nobel Peace Prize

You can't make this stuff up!

opinion

featured column

Ben Cohen

When fighting antisemitism, you can’t pick and choose

A far-left French conundrum: It’s hard to understand how someone could be moved by the cries of a frail, elderly Jewish woman in police custody, yet dismiss the horrors of Oct. 7.

Alexandra Herzog

It must be restated: Israel is central to Judaism and Jewish identity

Sarah N. Stern

There is no resuscitating the Oslo delusion

Daniel Greenfield

Rewarding the Oct. 7 massacres with a ‘Palestinian’ state

A billboard truck propagating an anti-Jewish blood libel parked outside Columbia University in New York City, sponsored by the @VoiceforHumanityProject. Credit: Courtesy.

Hatred against Jews flows down from campuses to kindergartens

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