JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, April 19, 2024

Friday, April 19, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

An anti-Israel protester outside the gates of Columbia University, Oct. 12, 2023. Photo by Syndi Pilar/Shutterstock.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

The illiberal crusade to defend antisemitic mobs

The strength of America’s commitment not to tolerate hate is being tested by liberals who are supporting pro-Hamas protesters spewing Jew-hatred.

U.S. Treasury Department. Credit: U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Biden admin sanctions more supporters of ‘violent extremists in the West Bank’

Andrew Bernard

An F-15 fighter jet is seen at an unidentified airbase after successfully protecting Israel’s airspace from an Iranian attack, April 14, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Israel strikes deep inside Iran

Charles Bybelezer

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tests a Qadr-110 (also transliterated as Ghadr-110) ballistic missile, which has a range of up to 1,200 miles, March 2016. Credit: Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.

Yaakov Lappin

A strike in an Iranian area with a long missile history

Robert Wood, deputy permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, vetoes the Palestinian bid for admission as a member state of the United Nations at the U.N. Security Council on April 18, 2024. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

US vetoes Palestinian bid for full UN membership

Mike Wagenheim

Shoppers strolling at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, April 14, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

A walk in Jerusalem after the doomsday that wasn’t

Gary Wexler

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

US lawmakers back Israel amid reported Iran strike

A tent camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, set up for Palestinians who evacuated from their homes elsewhere in the coastal enclave, Jan. 30, 2024. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Survey: 28% of Americans seek an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza

Stock illustration of a gavel. Credit: Pixabay.

LA man, who called for murder of Jews, sentenced to nearly five years

FBI ‘particularly concerned’ about ‘lone actors’ on Passover

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Dec. 10, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu stresses unity to counter ‘existential threats’

Google offices in California. Credit: Tada Images/Shutterstock.

Google fires 28 employees following anti-Israel sit-in

Shmurah matzah. Credit: Chabad.org.

Minister demands UN provide matzah, wine to Israeli hostages for Passover

Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security advisor of the United States, speaks at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in December 2023. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

US, Israeli teams strategize in wake of Iran’s massive missile attack

A cordless phone with a charging station that connects to a landline. Credit: 2ban/Shutterstock.

Israelis rush to order phone landlines due to tensions with Iran

Etgar Lefkovits

Shlomo Mansour, the oldest hostage in Hamas captivity and the only person abducted from Kibbutz Kissufim on Oct. 7. Photo: Courtesy of the Hostage and Missing Families Forum.

Grandchildren of elderly hostages call for their loved ones to go free

Amelie Botbol

Amiram Cooper, now 85, and his family. Credit: Courtesy.

Family in despair over father in Gaza captivity

Ayala Or-El

IDF lone soldiers and their families reunite alongside Israeli Minister of Aliyah and Integration Ofir Sofer (left), Jewish Agency chairman Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog and Jewish Agency CEO Amira Ahronoviz in April 2024. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

IDF lone soldiers reunited with their families ahead of Passover

Israeli security forces arrest a sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on suspicion of supporting Palestinian terrorists. Credit: Israel Police.

Sister of Hamas chief Haniyeh to be charged with terror offenses

Ruth Lansing. Credit: Courtesy of Buffalo Jewish Federation.

Holocaust survivor and Nuremberg translator Ruth Lansing dies at 105

Texas State Capitol in Austin. Credit: LoneStarMike via Wikimedia Commons.

Texas announces new appointees to Holocaust Advisory Commission

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis pray at the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, in the Queens borough of New York on November 25, 2016. Credit: Eliyahu Parypa/Chabad.org.

Biden honors Lubavitcher rebbe on ‘Education and Sharing Day’

Former President Donald Trump delivers the keynote speech at CPAC in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 24, 2024. Photo by Andrew Bernard.

Israeli ministers Chikli, Gamliel to attend CPAC Hungary

Amelie Botbol

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Credit: Courtesy.

Hebrew U professor arrested for questioning Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities

A festive parade of Jewish soldiers during Passover in Jerusalem in 1948. Credit: Rudolf Jonas, KKL-JNF Archive.

KKL-JNF reveals Passover photos from Jewish state’s first decades

A scene from the film"1506: The Lisbon Genocide." Credit: Courtesy.

‘1506: Lisbon Genocide’ film premieres; Tel Aviv panel draws parallels to current antisemitism

David Isaac

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.). Source: Screenshot.

Congress passes resolution declaring ‘From the River to the Sea’ antisemitic

Kylie Ora Lobell

Drawing of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Mark Podwal. Courtesy of Mark Podwal.

art

Mark Podwal

‘Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’

opinion

Rabbi Warren Goldstein

Searching for meaning in a post-Oct. 7 Pesach

Jan Lee

Judaism’s diversity needs to be part of the Passover conversation

Nathan Lewin

Will Columbia’s law-school dean learn the law of free speech?

Daniel Greenfield

Israel hits targets in Iran on ayatollah’s birthday

Bruce Heitler

Caution: Samson is Israel

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, March 26, 2024. Source: Screenshot.

Menacing Iranian threat: A grim reality for Israel, America and the world

A memorial to the residents of Mivtachim who were killed on Oct. 7. Credit: Courtesy of Jewish National Fund-USA.

A community heals together with American volunteers

Credit: Myléne/Pixabay.

Chai Lifeline offers critical aid to families before Passover

Credit: Courtesy of PJ Library.

PJ Library celebrates 18 years of inspiring Jewish families

Bnei Menashe in Aizawl, Mizoram and Churachandpur in Manipur, India, prepare matzah for Passover, April 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Shavei Israel.

In India, the lost tribe of Bnei Menashe prepares matzah for Passover

Lone soldiers and their families reunite alongside Minister of Aliyah and Integration Ofir Sofer, chairman of the Jewish Agency Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, and Jewish Agency CEO Amira Ahronoviz. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

‘Together for Seder’ reunites reserve lone soldiers with family

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, waves to children at a Lag B'Omer parade in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 17, 1987. Credit: Mordecai Baron via Wikimedia Commons.

A proclamation on ‘Education and Sharing Day’ 2024

BBYO teens participate in service projects. Credit: Courtesy of BBYO.

BBYO Teens tackle social issues and initiatives for J-Serve

Nova music festival survivor Asaf Aharon shares his story at Nova with mission participants. Credit: Courtesy of the Orthodox Union.

Orthodox Union lay leaders mission shows OU’s critical impact

Some of the 450 young Jewish philanthropists at JNFuture's 2022 Shabbat in the Park. Credit: Courtesy of Jewish National Fund-USA.

Jewish young professionals to gather in Central Park for Shabbat

Gratz College's director of digital scholarship Alison Joseph goes through some of the many boxes that contain Elie Wiesel's archives. Credit: Courtesy of Gratz College.

Elie Wiesel archive to become jewel of Gratz College digital platform

An empty bowl. Credit: Aris Subowo/Pixabay.

OU leads policy changes after kosher-food insecurity study

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