JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, May 24, 2024

Friday, May 24, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

View of the International Court of Justice courtroom during the court's ruling on May 24, 2024 that Israel must cease military operations in Rafah. Credit: Bastiaan Musscher/U.N. Photo/ICJ-CIJ.

ICJ: Israel must halt Rafah ops that might cause ‘physical destruction’ of Gazans

The United Nations high court decision is a "gift to the murderers and rapists of Hamas," human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky told JNS.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the Treaty Room of the White House, on Feb. 29, 2024. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House.

After Biden call, Egyptian president to restore aid flow to Gaza

(From left): Michel Nisenbaum, Orión Hernández Radoux, Hanan Yablonka. Credit: Courtesy.

IDF recovers bodies of three more hostages in Gaza

Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59, were all killed on Oct. 7.

Jeremy Corbyn, then leader of the UK Labour Party in 2018. Credit: B. Lenoir/Shutterstock.

Corbyn expelled from Labour after announcing run as independent

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Netanyahu denies receiving advanced warning of Hamas onslaught

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (expeditionary) use a rope to stabilize humanitarian aid while it is lifted by a crane aboard the “MV Roy P. Benavidez” to support the Joint Logistics Over-the-shore (JLOTS) operation, in the Port of Ashdod, Israel, on May 13, 2024. Credit: Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/U.S. Army Photo.

US: Two-thirds of aid that has crossed Gaza pier has been distributed

Christi Fraga, mayor of the Doral, Fla., speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the future site of the new military housing complex supporting U.S. Southern Command's service members and their families on Jan. 29, 2023. Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Erica Bechard/U.S. Navy Photo.

Florida mayor praised for ‘courage, character’ after apology for supporting permanent ceasefire

Members of the South Africa delegation at the International Court of Justice on May 24, 2024. Credit: Bastiaan Musscher/U.N. Photo/ICJ-CIJ.

ICJ shows ‘predilection’ for Jew-hatred, says ranking Senate Foreign Relations Committee member

The International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2021. Credit: oliverdelahaye/Shutterstock.

US visa bans, financial sanctions for ICC officials, 24 senators say

Israeli soldiers operating in eastern Rafah, the Gaza Strip, May 9, 2024. Credit: IDF.

‘Hamas responsible for prolonging Gaza war’

Akiva Van Koningsveld

The Zin Valley in the Negev Desert of Israel, as seen from the grave of David Ben-Gurion at Midreshet Ben-Gurion. Credit: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.

Knesset advances bill to define Judea townships as part of Negev

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a briefing at IDF Northern Command Headquarters, May 23, 2024. Photo by Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO.

Netanyahu: Israel has ‘surprising’ plans for Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Kibbutz Be'eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza and met with IDF soldiers on Oct. 14, 2023. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Netanyahu requests release of gruesome Oct. 7 footage

Jewish American Heritage Month. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish American Heritage Month recognized by 37 states and 172 cities

Cutting the ribbon as Israel Aerospace Industries inaugurates its first visitor's center in the America, in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2024. Credit: IAI.

Israel Aerospace Industries inaugurates visitor’s center in Washington, DC

Iranian-British human rights activist Elaaheh Jamali holds a pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre near Kibbutz Re'im, May 23, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of ELNET.

Activist for Iranian women also champions Israel’s human-rights cause

Etgar Lefkovits

Joshua Shain, an undergraduate student at Columbia University in New York City. Photo by Josh Hasten.

Contingent of college students visits Israel to prepare for future activism

Binyamin Achimeir, 14, was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack on April 12, 2024. Credit: Israel Police.

Achimeir family: Police leaving us in the dark on son’s terror murder

Oporto Jewish Community members meet with Portuguese schoolchildren near the city's Kadoorie Makor Haim synagogue. Credit: Oporto Jewish Community.

New film to chronicle the 1493 exile of 2,000 Jewish children from Portugal

Chocolate. Illustrative Photo by Nik Merkulov/Shutterstock.

Popular UK chocolates regain kosher certification

A birthday cake. Photo by Ruth Black/Shutterstock.

Sydney bakery battered for Hamas-themed birthday cake

Tel Aviv, April 20, 2022. Photo by Matanya Tausig/Flash90.

‘Open House Tel Aviv’ to celebrate first Hebrew-speaking city

The Phoenix Theater, in London. Credit: Basil Jradeh via Wikimedia Commons.

London theater vandalized before film fest screening of Nova documentary

Four Israeli heart specialists from the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer en route to a hospital in Cyprus with life-saving technology to save a woman who was suffering cardiac issues following childbirth. Credit: Courtesy of SACH.

Medical team from Israel travels to Rwanda to treat young cardiac patients

Grilled meat. Credit: Pixabay.

It’s Lag B’Omer: Time to get your grill on

Ethel G. Hofman

“Wedding” by Mark Podwal. Credit: Mark Podwal.

A Lag B'Omer drawing by Mark Podwal

A bonfire celebrating the holiday of Lag B'Omer, which commemorates Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Credit: Lerner Vadim/Shutterstock

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

On sabbaticals and spirituality

Jews at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron, in northern Israel, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer, May 23, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Meron and other holy sites close for Lag B’Omer

Alternative festivities to be held at ancient Shiloh in Samaria, site of the biblical Tabernacle.

Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in New York City. Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock.

Equating Israel with Hamas isn’t the worst of the ICC’s turpitude

A pro-Palestinian protest in London, a week after Hamas murdered 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 250 others hostage into the Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2023. Credit: Alisdare Hickson/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Why the pro-Hamas demonstrations are different and more dangerous

Douglas J. Feith, Ze’ev Jabotinsky

Biden gives empty ‘ironclad’ promises to Israel

No condolences for the Iranian president’s death, please

The exterior of Gerri C. LeBow Hall, the home of Drexel University's LeBow College of Business in Philadelphia. Credit: Jmh485 via Wikimedia Commons.

Israel is demonized on college campuses and in international courts

Prisoners in forced labor at Neuengamme concentration camp. Credit: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons.

Only half of Canadian teachers say students know about Holocaust and other genocides

The Shema prayer with personal notes. Credit: Courtesy of the Orthodox Union.

Before Shavuot, 3,000 women worldwide are ‘Counting Towards Sinai’

At an ImpactWell GNMC mobile clinic, Dr. Britta Budde Schwartzman examines a child using a multipurpose diagnostic tool developed by Nonagon that records the data on a smartphone for assessment by physicians on site and, if necessary, sent to specialists at a distant hospital. ImpactWell is a project of the Ruderman Family Foundation and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Photo by Ezra Asare.

JDC and Ruderman Family Foundation’s new last-mile health care

Afeka Academic College of Engineering. Source: Screenshot.

$4 million campaign launched to support student engineers

Lander College for Women, part of the Touro University system, Credit: Jim Henderson via Wikimedia Commons.

Teach NYS and Touro offer subsidized master’s degree for STEM teachers

U.S. Women's softball team, Maccabiah Games. Credit: Courtesy of Maccabi USA.

Israeli Olympic baseball manager Eric Holtz to coach USA women’s softball at Maccabiah

The Western Wall in Jerusalem. Credit: Samir Smier/Pixabay.

Jewish National Fund-USA announces new rabbis for Israel Advisory Committee

"Channel 12" anchor Yonit Levi. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli TV anchor receives Ben-Gurion University award for Middle East reporting

Jewish mothers from around the world took part in a Momentum solidarity mission to Israel that coincided with the country's Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut holidays, May 13-19, 2024. Photo by Aviram Valdman.

200 Jewish mothers from around the world visit Israel in a display of solidarity

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