JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, April 5, 2024

Friday, April 5, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

An anti-Israel protest and a pro-Israel counter-protest ensued in Teaneck, N.J., after a synagogue hosted an event featuring firsthand accounts by ZAKA representatives detailing the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 in southern Israel, April 1, 2024. Credit: The Jewish Link.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Pro-Israel Americans need to stop cowering and start protesting

After months of biased news coverage and open antisemitism, friends of the Jewish state need to take back the streets and tell Biden that he should worry about them.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, signs a March 8, 2024 letter to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alongside Jewish MIT graduate student Talia Khan. Credit: House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Lawyering up doesn’t address Jew-hatred on campus, House Ed Committee chair says

Andrew Bernard

U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock.

‘Unprecedented’: Members of Congress slam Biden ultimatum to Israel

A close-up of a seismograph machine needle drawing a red line on graph paper depicting seismic and earthquake activity. Credit: Inked Pixels/Shutterstock.

Kids not rattled by quake interrupting science exam … on earthquakes

Carin M. Smilk

Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, talks with reporters on April 5, 2024 outside the U.N. Human Rights Council. Credit: Nathan Chicheportiche/Israel in Geneva.

‘The murder of Jews does not matter,’ Israeli envoy says of UN Human Rights Council resolution

‘We’re cutting them loose,’ chief Florida financial officer says of Morningstar

Mike Wagenheim

Ramesh Rajasingham, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, on the screen as the United Nations Security Council meets on the "situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question," on April 5, 2024. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo.

Head of UN humanitarian affairs office calls for arms embargo on Israel

Mike Wagenheim

Members of Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the "military" wing of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, stand guard in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 14, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas will attack any multinational force in Gaza, say observers

Yaakov Lappin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu warns Iran: Israel knows how to defend itself

John Hostettler, a candidate for U.S. Senate, at a townhall at Ivy Tech in Evansville, Ind. in 2010. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.

RJC spends $1 million against former Indiana Republican congressman

New York State Capitol building in Albany, N.Y. Credit: Matt Wade Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

At capitol in Albany, New York state senators call for Hamas to release hostages

Caleb Levitan representing South Africa at the Youth Olympiad in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, in 2022. Credit: Veritusseeker via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish boy, 13, youngest to make South Africa’s Chess Olympiad national team

The campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. Credit: oleg_mit/Pixabay.

US Ed Department begins investigating Princeton for antisemitism

David Swindle

Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli. Photo by Reuven Kapochinsky.

Israeli minister compares West’s policies on Iran to appeasement of Nazis

Off-duty female soldiers at the Machane Yehuda outdoor market in Jerusalem, March 8 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

No changes in instructions to civilians amid Iranian threat

Two University of Michigan students who oppose Israel and its military actions in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 debate Dr. Phil McGraw and Mosab Yousef on “Dr. Phil Primetime.” Source: YouTube screenshot.

Dr. Phil, ‘Green Prince’ take on anti-Israel college activists in Michigan

David Isaac

Brig, Gen. Amit Saar. Photo by Oren Cohen.

Head of IDF Intelligence Research Division steps down following cancer diagnosis

Protesters near the Kohelet Policy Forum office in Jerusalem in March 2023. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon.

Kohelet Policy Forum scales down activity due to funding crunch

Shirit Avital Cohen

The Ubeidiya site is accessible and open to the public. Photo by Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israel opens ‘prehistoric Garden of Eden’ to public

Chani Walker. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

‘I wanted a change’: From Manchester Chabad family to IDF

Efrat Forsher

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the State Department in Washington, D.C. on March 5, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Terror-supporting Qatar is no friend of the West

Israel Kasnett

A caregiver assists an elderly woman on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, July 2, 2023. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Researchers call to reform long-term care as Israelis live longer

Seder night at Mishmar David, located between Ashdod and Jerusalem, April 5, 2023. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Financial prudence ahead of Passover: A family planning guide

Hanna Pri-Zan

Leibstandarte SS troops wearing refurbished World War I Stahlhelme during a drill inspection in Berlin, Nov., 22 1938. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Ethicist’ advises on what to do with inherited World War II-era German helmet

An African National Congress campaign poster for the May 29 South African general election.

ANC ramps up anti-Israel incitement ahead of South African election

Rolene Marks

Azerbaijan Tourism Board CEO Florian Sangeschmidt at the Israeli Tourism Expo in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Azerbaijan pushes for increased Israeli tourism

Etgar Lefkovits

opinion

Newspaper left on a park bench. Credit: un-perfekt/Pixabay.

featured column

Ben Cohen

A bad taste in the mouth

“We Cease ... Hamas Fires.” Credit: Courtesy.

Six months after Oct. 7: Why Israel must continue to fight

Women light candles before the start of Shabbat at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Shabbat 1800 program at Binghamton University, April 5, 2019. Photo by R. Coschignano/Chabad of Binghamton.

Shabbat dinner at Binghamton University to draw more than 2,000 students

A STAMP-certified expert checks the text of a tefillin. Credit: Courtesy of the Orthodox Union.

OU Kosher initiative will oversee kashrut of mezuzahs

JDC's fleet of mobile social-service and employment units, like this one in Herzliya, ensure evacuees receive the aid, training and counseling support they need as they grapple with displacement and joblessness. Photo by Ariel Hanin.

JDC says urgent need for more aid for struggling Israelis

Credit: stevepb/Pixabay.

Claims Conference opens Holocaust survivor speakers bureau

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein at the JewQ regional competition. Photo by James Feldman.

Michigan State Supreme Court Justice judges regional JewQ Championship

AFMDA mission participants at the Western Wall. Credit: Courtesy of American Friends of Magen David Adom.

US Jewish leaders take deep dive into post-Oct. 7 Israel

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