JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, June 7, 2024

Friday, June 7, 2024


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Hamas places rocket-launching sites next to schools in the Gaza Strip. The Mo’ath Bin Jabal middle school educates hundreds of Palestinian children and is also a U.N. shelter for local residents. Image from Dec. 14, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

The real source of Hamas war disinformation

“The New York Times” claims that Israel used fake social-media accounts to influence Congress. But it’s the corporate media that continues to spread lies about the war.

Palestinians at the site of a destroyed car hit in an Israeli airstrike, in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, June 4, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘Associated Press’ blasts own reporting on Hamas casualty statistics

Andrew Bernard

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at E.U. headquarters in Brussels, May 16, 2018. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.

UN chief to place Israel on ‘list of shame’

Mike Wagenheim

Holocaust survivor Heinz Kounio shows his serial number, tattooed by German Nazis, during a ceremony recalling the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II, in Thessaloniki, Greece Jan. 28, 2018. Credit: Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock.

Claims Conference and Germany boost funds for Holocaust survivors, education

Mike Wagenheim

George Noll, the head of the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem, meets the Palestinian Authority governor of Hebron, Khaled Doudin, in the Judea city, May 29, 2024. Credit: U.S. Department of State.

American diplomat meets PA governor who calls US ‘puppet’ of ‘Jewish lobby’

Akiva Van Koningsveld

MK Moshe Saada attends a Constitution Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

Likud dissenters threaten party discipline over haredi draft bill

Amichai Stein

Tires. Credit: HutchRock/Pixabay.

Florida tire-shop owner who displayed Nazi flag denies he’s antisemitic

David Swindle

The flag of Iran on a toy rocket. Credit: Novikov Aleksey/Shutterstock.

Bipartisan Senate bill targets ‘hostile Iranian space activities’

Activists protest as part of a “Day of Rage” called by Hamas at CUNY’s Baruch College in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 2023. Credit: rblfmr/Shutterstock.

House panel tells five US agencies to review funding of schools with Jew-hatred

Riyad Mansour (left), permanent observer of the "State of Palestine" to the U.N, greets Secretary-General António Guterres ahead of a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, April 18, 2024. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

Experts split on significance of Palestinian state recognitions

Troy Osher Fritzhand

Screen capture of a video that Houthi rebels released of a ship hijacking on Nov. 19, 2023 in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed terror group claimed the ship was tied to Israel. Credit: YouTube/Reuters.

Houthis reportedly kidnap at least nine UN staff members in Yemen

The Central Quadrangle and Butler Library at Columbia University in Manhattan. Credit: Wangkun Jia/Shutterstock.

Settlement in suit against Columbia University to create ‘safe passage liaison’

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky. Photo by Marko Dashev, Courtesy of Chabad.org/News.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, 74, instrumental in Chabad’s global expansion

El Al airplanes parked at Ben-Gurion Airport in Lod, Aug. 3, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israeli officials encourage ‘aliyah’ while affirming US Jewish communities strong

Mike Wagenheim

JCRC/AJC board member Samantha Woll lighting candles in March 2018. Credit: Courtesy of JCRC/AJC.

Trial set to begin for accused killer of Samantha Woll

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah, May 25, 2021. Credit: Flash90.

UAE FM calls PA leadership ‘Ali Baba and the forty thieves’

Then-Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (left) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meet in Istanbul, April 20, 2024. Source: Turkish Presidency/X.

Thwarted terror plot puts Hamas’s Turkey HQ in the spotlight

Yaakov Lappin

Security personnel at the scene where a Gazan rocket hit a home and a car in Sderot, Oct. 17, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Terrorist’s two children cited in court’s lenient sentence

A firefighter tries to extinguish a blaze near the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Arson attacks in Samaria nearly double those in May 2023

"Mezukak Shivatayim," a rare manuscript with an unpublished commentary on Maimonides's Code of Jewish Law [Mishneh Torah] written in Provence by the 14th century scholar Rabbi Joseph ben Shaul Kimhi. Photo: Courtesy of NLI.

600-year-old manuscript reveals lost French-Jewish intellectual stream

Then-Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (not seen) hosts the stars of the Israeli series "Fauda" and members of Israel's special undercover police unit at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Feb. 7, 2018. Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO.

‘Fauda’ creators tapped as scribes for Oct. 7 project

American Jewish reggae singer, rapper, beatboxer and alternative-rock musicianMatisyahu, Dec. 15, 2019. Credit: Kats Cadenza/Katherine Barner via Wikimedia Commons.

Matisyahu pays tribute to capital, hostages in honor of Jerusalem Day

The headquarters of “The New York Times” in Midtown Manhattan, June 7, 2014. Credit: Osugi/Shutterstock.

‘NYT’ union leader calls Zionists ‘butchers’ who ‘know how to kill’

From left: Lucy Dee and daughters Rina, 15, and Maia, 20. Photo: Courtesy.

Efrat residents help write Torah scroll in memory of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee

opinion

Minister-without-Portfolio and War Cabinet member Benny Gantz at the Jerusalem Day official ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2024. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

featured column

Caroline B. Glick

What will be the impact of Gantz’s departure from the government?

Prof. Asa Kasher, Jan. 10, 2023. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Ruthie Blum

Asa Kasher’s unkosher disloyalty

While the Israeli military is conducting a valiant effort to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages, the “purity of arms” author might have exercised discretion before voicing his extremist positions.

Myanmar armed forces prepare to crack down on peaceful protesters, Feb. 28, 2021. Credit: R. Bociaga/Shutterstock.

Ben Cohen

The cries of Byai Phu

Everyone, it seems, has heard of Rafah, but few people know about what is happening in Burma, the East Asian country renamed “Myanmar” following a military coup in 1989.

Alon Turkaspa

The land of milk and honey innovates the dairy technology sector

American troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach as part of the invasion of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” during World War II, June 6, 1944. Credit: Photo from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Defeating evil carries an immense cost

The inauguration of the Herta and Paul Amir School of Medicine at University of Haifa. Credit: Courtesy.

Haifa University inaugurates medical school to meet needs and strengthen Israel’s north

Or Gat, who survived the Oct. 7 terror attacks, holds up a picture of his sister, Carmel Gat, who is being held hostage by Hamas. Credit: Courtesy of Jewish National Fund-USA.

Survivors of Oct. 7 and families of hostages raise awareness in US

From left: Maya Laker-Wallfisch, the daughter of Auschwitz survivor Anita Lasker Wallfisch; Kai Höss; and Hans Jurgen Höss, son of concentration-camp commandant Rudolf Höss. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros.

‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ to show at select US theaters starting on June 7

Boston University professor Maya Steinitz is honored by Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the Board of Governors meeting. She is shown here with Hebrew University president and professor Asher Cohen. Photo by Maxim Dinshtein.

Hebrew University honors alumna, law professor Maya Steinitz on Wall of Life

OU relief mission members Ariela Guakil (left) and Shayna Sklar play with schoolchildren in the Mokhada village. Credit: Courtesy.

OU Relief Mission to India is a life-changing experience

Members of a recent iCenter masters concentration in Israel education. Credit: Courtesy.

The iCenter’s iFellows master’s concentration in Israel education welcomes new cohort

OU Kosher COO Rabbi Moshe Elefant discusses the intricacies of kashrut supervision at Bais Medrash Zichron Yechezkel, in Toms River, N.J. Credit: Courtesy.

OU Kosher marks another successful Pesach season educating thousands

Hebrew University of Jerusalem president and professor Asher Cohen (right) presents an honorary fellowship to renowned patent attorney Michael Cypers at the 87th Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem. Photo by Maxim Dinshtein.

Hebrew U presents fellowship to attorney Michael Cypers

Team members affiliated with the Iron Nation impact fund, supporting the high-tech industry in Israel. From left: Chen Linchevski, Ira Freedman, Jason Wolf, Gil Friedlander and Ilan Tevet. Photo by Yoav Lavi.

Iron Nation achieves $20 million fundraising goal to bolster Israeli startups amid ongoing conflict

“The Good Doctor.” Credit: Courtesy of Key Art (Disney).

Matan honors ‘The Good Doctor’ for its contribution to disability inclusion

AEPi Brothers at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., organized a campus-wide walk to raise awareness of the Holocaust. Credit: Courtesy.

In backdrop of campus antisemitism, AEPi raises Holocaust awareness

Jewish Agency for Israel emissaries seen at the Israel on Fifth Parade in New York City. Photo by Jennifer Roman.

Jewish Agency representatives march at Israel Day parade, call for release of hostages

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