JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, April 12, 2024

Friday, April 12, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

A pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, D.C., one day after the terrorist attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, Oct. 8, 2023. Credit: Ted Eytan via Wikimedia Commons.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Why the left united around hatred of Israel

Since Oct. 7, woke ideology brought together a diverse coalition of advocacy groups eager to stop the war on Hamas. The Democratic Party will never be the same.

Abu Ubaida (center), the spokesman of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the "military" wing of Hamas, speaks in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 11, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

US sanctions Hamas spokesman, three of its cyber, drone operators in Gaza and Lebanon

Iron Dome aerial interceptions of Hamas rockets in southern Israel. Credit: Oren Ravid/Shutterstock.

Biden expects Iran to retaliate ‘sooner than later’ against Israel

Vanessa Frazier, Maltese ambassador to the United Nations and president of the Security Council for the month of April, arrives to chair the Security Council meeting on maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine. Credit: Mark Garten/United Nations photo.

Palestinian membership at UN appears on hold

Mike Wagenheim

Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip, March 23, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Yaakov Lappin

‘Gaza buffer zone is no substitute for preventing buildup of terror armies’

Iranian missiles on display at a Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2017. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.

US reiterates ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as IDF preps for Iranian attack

Charles Bybelezer

Police car. Credit: tevenet/Pixabay.

Jewish man stabbed in driveway of Upstate New York home

Thousands attend a memorial event in Argentina dedicated to the 85 people killed and more than 300 wounded in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2022. Credit: AMIA.

Argentina court names Iran responsible for 1994 AMIA bombing

Riddhi Patel speaks during a Bakersfield, Calif. city council meeting on April 10, 2024, during which she was escorted out after she said she would murder council members. Source: YouTube/City of Bakersfield, Calif.

Anti-Israel protester, who said she’d kill city council, charged with 16 felonies

Andrew Bernard

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) speaks at a Brookings Institution panel on Oct. 27, 2015 about "Indonesia in the changing world." Credit: Paul Morigi/Brookings Institution, Creative Commons.

Congressman: Non-Jewish IDF soldiers should check Gaza aid on Shabbat

U.S. Capitol. Credit: MotionStudios/Pixaby.

Congressman introduces bill that applies IHRA definition to civil-rights law

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaking with attendees at the 2020 Iowa State Education Association Legislative Conference at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 18, 2020. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.

AJC New England calls Warren’s genocide claims ‘inaccurate and hurtful’

IDF Armored Corps soldiers at a staging area near the Gaza Strip on Jan. 1, 2024. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Record IDF combat enlistment among women after Oct. 7

Lilach Shoval

New street sign for U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, with American and Israeli flags. Credit: John Theodor/Shutterstock.

No travel outside Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beersheva for US gov staff, families

Symbol of law and justice in a courtroom. Credit: corgarashu/Shutterstock.

Lawsuit addresses rights violated by mandate to pay dues to anti-Israel union

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in Jerusalem on March 27, 2024. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Biden needs to ‘stop cowering to the radical left,’ says Florida senator

A view of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, April 9, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Israeli Arab indicted for planning to poison the Sea of Galilee

Two Israelis were wounded by a Hezbollah rocket in Kiryat Shmona, close to the border with Lebanon, Feb. 13, 2024. Photo by Erez Ben Simon/TPS.

Netanyahu presents $1.75 billion plan to rehabilitate north

Lea Schenirer, a Pilates instructor and social-media influencer, encourages women to light candles before Shabbat at “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv. Photo by Alanna Cooper.

‘Hostages Square’ in Tel Aviv is one of the most religiously diverse synagogues

Alanna E. Cooper

A sign displayed at the Nasdaq in New York City, Nov. 9-10, 2023. Credit: Startup Nation Central.

Israel’s tech sector shows resilience despite challenges post-Oct. 7

David Isaac

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the military draft in Jerusalem, April 11, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protest in J’lem against IDF draft

A protest in support of the continuation of fighting in the Gaza Strip, near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, April 11, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Demonstrators rally in Jerusalem in support of war against Hamas

Chabad led the largest solidarity mission to Israel since the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, April 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Chabad solidarity mission celebrates Israeli heroism amid war

New, inclusive Haggadah aims to empower your seder

Josh Hasten

People check out the booths at Cybertech Global TLV 2023. Photo by Judith Segaloff.

‘Middle East 2.0’: Cybertech Global Tel Aviv 2024

Amelie Botbol

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/POOL.

Israel Prize 2024 winners announced amid controversies

Dallas Independent School District Human Development Building, the site of a former Safeway store. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish group files Title VI complaint against Dallas School District

David Swindle

U.S. President Joe Biden signs the guestbook at the Israeli president's residence in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

Biden mulls ‘Palestine’ at the United Nations

Israel Kasnett

opinion

Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, March 18, 2012. Photo by Uri Lenz/Flash90.

featured column

Ruthie Blum

Hippocrates and hypocrisy

That treating terrorists has been going on for decades is bad enough. Allowing it after Oct. 7 makes a mockery of medical ethics.

Portrait of Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua since 2007. Credit: Barna Tanko/Shutterstock.

featured column

Ben Cohen

Nicaragua’s charade at the ICJ

The bitter irony is that it is the country’s far-left leadership, aligned with the dictatorships in Venezuela and Cuba, that should be in the dock.

Ayoob Kara

Iran’s arm shipments threaten the free world

A man walks into a McDonald's restaurant in central Jerusalem on April 13, 2016. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Boycott movement undermines American support of Israel

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks's work will be available as part of the Sefaria online library. Credit: Courtesy of Sefaria.

Sefaria adds works of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s to digital library

Pallets of wine were sent to Ukraine's Jewish community for Passover. Credit: Courtesy of JRNU.

Jews in Ukraine will have food for Passover, thanks to JRNU

Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s special envoy for combating antisemitism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zvika Klein, editor-in-chief of “The Jerusalem Post,” and GLZ (IDF) radio’s Idan Kweller speak on a panel at the symposium. Photo by Yaniv Kopel.

Experts discuss global antisemitism and the aftermath of Oct. 7

The opening session of a new JCPA program on understanding the Middle East. Photo by Uriah Bergil.

JCPA training course aims for understanding of Muslim, Arab life

Children with special needs from the Simcha Layeled association enjoy a performance by singer Benaia Barabi. Photo by Yehuda Ben Itach, KKL-KNF photo archive.

Keren Shemesh offers a spring break for children with special needs

Performers with the Tzofim Friendship Caravan will celebrate hope and resilience. Credit: Courtesy of Tzofim Friendship Caravan.

Tzofim Friendship Caravan plans US ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ tour

Thousands of Binghamton University students celebrated Shabbat with food, song and prayers for the Israeli hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023 in a photo taken before the start of Shabbat on April 5, 2024. Photo by S. Grossbaum/Chabad of Binghamton.

Shabbat dinner at Binghamton U draws 2,200 participants in a show of pride

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