JNS The Daily Syndicate - Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Wednesday, April 17, 2024


	The Daily Syndicate

Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, testifies about campus antisemitism before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on April 17, 2024. Credit: House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Columbia University leaders grilled in House antisemitism hearing

“Columbia is in for a reckoning of accountability,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik.

Andrew Bernard

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Feb. 1, 2020. Source: Official website of the President of Turkey.

Erdoğan invites Hamas chief Haniyeh, accuses Israel in speech

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented Turkey as the longtime defender of the Islamist terrorist group.

David Isaac

Israelis check the damage to their home from the previous night's Iranian missile attack in Katzrin, the Golan Heights, April 14, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/ Flash90.

The West, and Russia, press Israel to hold back on Iran

Amichai Stein

Assorted potatoes. Credit: Stan Balik/Pixabay.

Meat and potatoes, kosher-for-Passover style

Naomi Ross

Robert Wood, deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, briefs reporters after the closed Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Oct. 8, 2023. Credit: Paulo Filgueiras/U.N. Photo.

UN Security Council committee doesn’t recommend Palestinian membership vote

Mike Wagenheim

Maurice El Médiouni. Source: YouTube screenshot.

Algerian Jewish pianist Maurice el Médioni, 95, blended musical genres

latest news

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. Photo by Maayan Toaf/GPO.

Netanyahu: Israel will decide how it responds to Iran

Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar speaks at the annual Cyber Week at Tel Aviv University, June 27, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Shin Bet asked to delay closure of terror-linked Ra’am charities

An aerial view of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Credit: Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock.

US Education Department investigating UMass-Amherst, Philadelphia-area school district

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) speaking at an abortion rights rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2021. Credit: Shala W. Graham/Shutterstock.

DMFI PAC slams Cori Bush vote ‘to protect terrorist group leaders’

A gate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Credit: Hanson L./Shutterstock.

Citing ‘safety’ after ‘careful consideration,’ USC nixes valedictorian speech

David Swindle

Kibbutz Be'eri near the Gaza Strip, Jan. 3, 2024. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Israel approves five-year plan to rebuild Gaza border region

Israelis evaluate damage after the Iranian missile attack in Katzrin, the Golan Heights, April 14, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

As Iran attacked, anxious Israelis put trust in the IDF and watched news

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons Commons.

‘Take matters into your own hands’ when ‘pro-Hamas mobs’ block traffic, Tom Cotton says

Shahana Hanif, a member of the New York City Council, speaks alongside MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber announcing the opening of accessible elevators at the 7th Avenue station on the F/G lines on Nov, 21, 2023. Credit: Marc Hermann/Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Brooklyn legislator’s Jewish constituents feel ‘abandoned, betrayed, endangered’

JewBelong Passover Haggadah. Credit: JewBelong.

New Haggadah promises Passover seder that isn’t as ‘dull as matzah’

Izzy Salant

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Credit: Tomwsulcer via Wikimedia Commons.

End Jew Hatred Movement organizes rallies at Columbia and Rutgers universities

David Swindle

opinion

A large wall mural near Kibbutz Galuyot in Tel Aviv, depicting U.S. President Joe Biden as a superhero defending Israel. April 15, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

featured column

Mitchell Bard

Iran didn’t hear, ‘Don’t’

The attack was a blow to both Israeli and American deterrence, despite the fact that the weakness of Iran’s military was revealed.

Karol Markowicz

Jeremy Piven and an all-too-apt performance

Charles Jacobs

Some in the Jewish establishment, even now, dilute our pro-Israel voice

Joseph Frager

Hats off to the heroes and heroines in Israel’s existential battle

Phyllis Chesler

Behold the 21st-century boycott

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

The light has dawned

‘Yesh tikvah,’ there is hope!

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