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Friday, September 13, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

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.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

What could Israel expect from a Harris administration?

Marian Ryan, the district attorney of Middlesex County, speaks at a press conference on Sept. 12, 2024 as Ruthanne Fuller, the mayor of Newton, Mass., looks on. Source: YouTube/NBC10 Boston.

Dershowitz: ‘Serious questions’ about fairness of Newton’s response to shooting at pro-Israel rally

Haverford College outside Philadelphia. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

Haverford ‘doubled down’ on Jew-hatred since May lawsuit, per complaint before US District Court

Menachem Wecker

Former Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Irwin Cotler. Photo by Dave Gordon.

Irwin Cotler talks Iran, the Hamas war and Canada’s arms embargo

Noam Swissa (left) and Asif Korliker sit outside their hotel in Tel Aviv on Sept. 7, 2024. Photo by Canaan Lidor.

In Tel Aviv, northern evacuees endure ‘disturbing’ rallies

Special forces operators from the Israeli Air Force's Shadag unit take part in a combat exercise in a built-up area at the Palmachim Airbase, July 12, 2020. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.

Israel reportedly disrupts Iran’s missile accuracy project in Syria

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks at a special session of the Security Council on Dec. 19, 2018, warning about the Hezbollah threat. Source: Screenshot.

Israel braces for UN showdown as Palestinians seek sanctions

Shirit Avitan Cohen

View of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, on July 15, 2024. Photo by Oren Cohen/Flash90.

Former NATO officers: Israel nearing war objectives

Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza City on July 28, 2024. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

IDF officers call for new strategy to defeat Hamas

Released hostage Adina Moshe addresses a rally in Tel Aviv's "Hostage Square." Photo by Gideon Markowicz.

Released hostage details how Hamas keeps captives caged in Gaza

Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Qatar’s Minister of State Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi in Doha, Qatar, on Aug. 20, 2024. Photo by Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Qatar, the ‘source of evil in the Middle East’

Judenplatz, the town square in Vienna's Innere Stadt that was the center of Jewish life in the Middle Ages. The Memorial to the Austrian Jewish Victims of the Shoah is seen in the foreground and the Museum Judenplatz in the background, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 25, 2024. Photo by Michal Eliasy Marks.

Vienna’s Jewish history: Of prosperity and persecution

The Israeli and American flag are screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City to mark one year since the transfer of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. Photo by Aharon Krohn/Flash90.

US, Israel discuss economic cooperation at Jerusalem summit

Residents in Neve Tzuf, in the Binyamin region of Samaria, check damage to their homes after a fire, Nov. 27, 2016. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

Arab arson triggers evacuation in Neve Tzuf

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on April 14, 2024. Credit: Eskinder Debebe/U.N. Photo.

UN chief complains Netanyahu won’t take his calls

Then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott speaking at FreePac, hosted by FreedomWorks, in Phoenix, Ariz. on Oct. 13, 2012. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.

Abbott reminds schools Jew-hatred ‘never acceptable in Texas’

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as they leave the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Manhattan after being found guilty, March 29, 1951. Photo by Roger Higgins/New York World-Telegram via Wikimedia Commons.

Declassified memo may exonerate Ethel Rosenberg

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama during a meeting in Tirana, Sept. 12, 2024. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Muslim-majority Albania to open economic mission in Jerusalem

From left, Israel Allies Foundation Latin America Director Leopoldo Martinez, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña and Paraguayan Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano in New York, Sept. 18, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of the Israel Allies Foundation.

Paraguay to open Jerusalem embassy by end of year

Etgar Lefkovits

A long exposure picture shows Iron Dome firing interception on a drone fired from Lebanon in the Golan Heights, Aug. 5, 2024. Photo by Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90.

Hezbollah launches 20 rockets at Safed

An Israeli flag in Re'im, the site of the Nova music festival in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip, which was attacked by Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 364 people there on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Alex Kolomoisky, KKL-JNF.

KKL-JNF announces $60m emergency aid package for Israel’s north and south

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

Jewish philanthropist, Baltimore Orioles owner to donate $1.5 million to Jewish museum

The jug (circled) before being broken. Credit: Hecht Museum.

Ancient jar restored after being accidentally smashed by 5-year-old

Afghan women work at a textile factory in Kabul in January 2012. Credit: Senior Airman Andrea Salazar/U.S. Armed Forces.

featured column

Afghanistan and Gaza: Tragedy and farce

You wonder why a Hamas rapist who gets what he deserves is reinvented as an innocent civilian murdered as part of a “genocide,” while Afghan women are transformed into chattels and slaves, and the world remains silent.

Lenny Ben-David

The warped and deadly prism of ISM

Dan Sommer, Jon Bridge

Now is the time for the organized Jewish world to embrace self-defense

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

It’s the extreme rhetoric

A person stands near the nearly 3,000 American flags honoring lives lost during the 9/11 terrorist attacks as the sun sets at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., on Sept. 11, 2023. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Islamist terrorism still threatens freedom and democracy

A mockup shows the dedication for a particular letter in the Global Community Torah from Sefaria. Credit: Courtesy.

Jews honor family and friends with letters in digital Torah project

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies names advisory board vice chair

Participants pay tribute to Rabbi Yaish ben Yahya, a 12th-century scholar and adviser to the king of Portugal, during an event sponsored by the International Observatory for Human Rights and B'nai B'rith Portugal. Credit: Courtesy.

Portuguese officials pay tribute to historic Jewish leader

In an act of resilience and catharsis, more than a dozen rehab patients from ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran took to the southern Israel skies with pilots from “Ananim: Flights for the Community,” on Sept. 6, 2024. Credit: ADI.

War-wounded soldiers and civilians touch the southern Israel skies

Shlomit Nazar, a teacher at Nofey Habsor in the Gaza Envelope, spent the summer with her students at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. Credit: Courtesy.

Finding inner peace at summer camp

ASK OU Summer interns suited up for a food-plant visitation. Credit: Courtesy.

OU Kosher program explores daily applications of kashrut

Two Jewish fighter pilots recite Kiddush and hold Shabbat services aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Credit: Courtesy of Aleph Institute.

Aleph supports Jewish sailors on US naval warships

Florida Hebrew University debuts as a unique Torah-based institution

Young adults, including some from Israel, participated in Trybal Gathering's recent Camp Chi and Eisner Camp. Photo by Jason Belsky.

Israeli young adults join peers at Jewish overnight camp for reprieve

Rabbi Max Anteby teaches the popular Aish Discovery Seminar in Passaic, N.J., on Labor Day, 2024. Photo by Steven Brodsky.

Record-breaking turnout of parents and students at Aish seminar

JewQ Australia competition finalists, representing 57 schools from 15 Australian communities in three states, take time out for a group photo in front of the Sydney Opera House, Sept. 8, 2024. Photo by Gary Friedland.

Rally with prayer, shofar-blowing and dance at Sydney Opera House

Flags of Masa Israel Journey. Credit: Courtesy of Masa Israel Journey.

Masa Israel Journey appoints new CEO

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