JNS The Daily Syndicate - Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Tuesday, August 13, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

An F-15E Strike Eagle with the 4th Fighter Wing approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 121st Air Refueling Wing to be refueled over the skies of North Carolina, May 7, 2024. F-15s are reportedly one of the weapons systems the Biden administration is withholding from Israel. Photo by Senior Airman Ivy Thomas/US Air Force.

Biden admin approves up to $20.3 billion in arms sales to Israel, including 50 upgraded F-15s

The Pentagon notified Congress of the approval, which the legislature could block, with the jets potentially beginning to arrive in Israel in 2029.

Gazan terrorists fire rockets towards Israel, Nov. 7, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas fires two rockets at Tel Aviv

One rocket landed in the Mediterranean Sea, and the other fell short inside Gaza.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, Feb. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

US ‘strongly opposes’ Ben-Gvir’s visit to Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and an event with Australian officials at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 6, 2024. Credit: Chad McNeeley/U.S. Department of Defense.

Blinken reportedly delaying Middle East trip due to ‘uncertainty about the situation’

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., on Aug. 9, 2024. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.

RJC says Harris campaign lied about Walz’s ties to Hitler-supporting imam

A scene from the film “Legend of Destruction.” Credit: Art by David Polonsky and Michael Faust.

‘Unity depends on us,’ says director of animated Second Temple film ‘Legend of Destruction’

Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore. Source: Google Street View.

Suspect arrested in alleged arson hate crime at Jewish Museum of Maryland

Gavel. Credit: Katrin Bolovtsova/Pexels.

Former Cornell student gets 21 months for threats to kill, rape Jews

Anti-Israel graffiti was spray-painted in red on the main sign of Bethesda Elementary School in Maryland, August 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Anti-Defamation League.

‘Abhorrent antisemitic messages’ at Bethesda elementary school

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., on Aug. 9, 2024. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.

Young Jewish Chicagoans excited, apprehensive ahead of Democratic National Convention

Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, speaks at the 2024 Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities on Feb. 5, 2024. Credit: U.S. Department of Education.

Tlaib’s alma mater among two new schools under federal Title VI probe

The "Mr. Shnitz" kosher restaurant targeted with antisemitic graffiti in Levallois-Perret, France, on Aug. 19, 2023. Source: X.

First half of year in France sees triple incidents of antisemitism from 2023

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Credit: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Frank Fey via Wikimedia Commons.

Senator urges boosting resources for US Park Police to protect federal property from protesters

Boise, Idaho. Credit: Brett Sayles/Pexels.

Charges dismissed for one of two women accused of accosting Idaho Jewish man

A skyline shot of downtown Springfield, Ohio in 2019. Credit: www.springfieldohio.gov/Rob Hat via Wikimedia Commons.

Neo-Nazis holding rifles and swastika flags march during Ohio musical festival

The Moss Haggadah is presented to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem at a ceremony that included (from left) National Library of Israel chairman Sallai Meridor; artist David Moss; and donors Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Bob Gottesman, Aug. 6, 2024. Photo by Dor Pazuelo.

National Library of Israel receives gift of original David Moss Haggadah

Students at the University of Sydney at a pro-Palestine encampment on campus. April 25, 2024. Credit: Bookish Worm/Wikimedia Commons.

University of Sydney students reject motion condemning Hamas

People walk past a billboard showing a portrait of newly appointed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (top) next to Palestine Square in the Tehran on Aug. 12, 2024. Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images.

Iran rejects European calls to refrain from attacking Israel

Reginald D. Hunter on July 8, 2006. Credit: Pete Ashton/Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli couple heckled, hounded out of Reginald Hunter comedy show

Family, friends and army officers attend a memorial ceremony for the Avivim school bus bombing, marking 54 years, at a hotel in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, May 22, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

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