JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, September 20, 2024

Friday, September 20, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Israeli soldiers evacuate wounded people who was severely injured when a missile fired from Lebanon hit the Ramim Cliff area, near the Israeli border with Lebanon, on Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Why the reactions to Israel’s strikes on Hezbollah matter

The criticism of the tactics and the fact that it inspired some laughter from besieged Israelis speak volumes about the moral sickness afflicting many Western liberals.

IDF airstrike in Beirut kills top Hezbollah terror commander

Charles Bybelezer

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council annual summit in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19, 2024. Credit: Guy Sidi/Israeli-American Council.

Trump pitches Jewish voters: ‘Those votes may be necessary for us to win’

Sharon Benmaman. Credit: Courtesy.

Never a better time to serve

Deborah Fineblum

Beit midrash minyan at the Shefa School in New York City, Sept. 4, 2024. Photo by Jennifer Weisbord.

Shefa School for students with language challenges moves to brand-new building in Manhattan

Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance to the American University of Beirut Medical Center after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon on Sept. 17, 2024. Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images.

‘Whole of Hezbollah’s senior command level likely damaged’

Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

IDF mum on reports Houthis open front against Israel in Syria

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.

Walz tells hostage families their relatives must be released, suffering in Gaza must end

IDF St. Sgt. Jamie Gartenberg Pila finds her father's name on the Jerusalem Living Memorial on Sept. 11, 2024. Photo by Sharon Altshul.

Commemorating 9/11 in Jerusalem: Honoring victims, facing challenges

Ayelet Lash. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli mother exposes Arab incitement, criminality authorities miss

Flight engineer Yona Lichtman is reunited with his daughter at Lod Airport in Israel, after his El Al aircraft was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Sept. 4, 1968. Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Israeli pilot whose plane was hijacked in 1968 talks Hamas hostage crisis

Palestinian Authority security personnel parade in the Judea city of Hebron, Nov. 14, 2017. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

MKs warn against plan to let armed PA officers work alongside IDF

U.S. Capitol Building in Washigton, D.C. Credit: Thomas Lin/Pexels.

House passes End Woke Higher Education Act with bipartisan support

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) gives remarks before President Joe Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 15, 2021. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House.

Schumer announces plans to hike funds for nonprofit security program

Demonstrators protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of assaulting a Hamas terrorist at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheva, July 29, 2024. Photo by Dudu Greenspan/Flash90.

Israeli High Court declines to close terrorists detention facility

Mosquito. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

70 dead of West Nile virus in Israel

Israelis gather at the government campus in Jerusalem to call on the state to vanquish Hamas, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Thousands rally in Jerusalem demanding victory over Hamas

People walk across from the Church of Saint Lazarus in Larnaca, Cyprus at sunset on Aug. 11, 2024. (Photo by Etienne Torbey/AFP via Getty Images.

$55m Jewish school to open in Limassol, Cyprus

Bernard-Henri Lévy attends the “L'Europe Contre L'Antisemitisme” Press Conference at Theatre Antoine in Paris on June 3, 2024. Photo by Foc Kan/WireImage.

featured column

Israel alone, Israel unbowed

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy captures the essence of the Jewish people—and their intense love for a tiny strip of land—in his latest book, in which he deconstructs the significance of Oct. 7.

The illusion of status quo

What can you do for your community?

Lessons from the Nazi hunter

Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. Credit: jpeter2/Pixabay.

UN legitimizes seat for ‘Palestine’: Trophy for Oct. 7

At the 15th Annual Bel Air Affaire in Beverly Hills, Drs. Eric and Melina Esrailian (far left) were presented with the Humanitarian Torch of Learning Award. The evening's surprise entertainment was singer and actress Katharine McPhee Foster (center), shown with her husband Grammy Award-winning writer and producer David Foster and AFHU Western region vice chair Patricia L. Glaser. Credit: Robert Lurie Photography.

$2.5 million raised at AFHU event for Hebrew U scholarships

“One Huge Night Los Angeles Gala” on Sept. 19, 2024. Credit: Carlos Chattah Photography.

Gift of Life marrow registry marks 500th lifesaving transplant from Birthright donors

Hundreds of people in the post-Oct. 7 battered Israeli city of Ofakim attended a ceremony honoring community members who fought terrorists and local volunteers who are part of JDC’s new initiative building community resilience, healing and recovery in frontlines cities, Jan. 22, 2024. Photo by Hanani Horovitz.

JDC urges solutions to mass vulnerability across Israeli society

Participants from the Orthodox Union's Yachad program work with supervisors to serve up kosher food at Baltimore Ravens games. Credit: Courtesy.

Kosher concession run by OU’s Yachad attracts hundreds of football fans

The Aleph Institute’s Project 432 presents the Compass Workshop, which provides students with the tools and perspective to navigate, financial, legal and ethical dilemmas. Credit: Courtesy.

‘It Opened My Eyes,’ Aleph workshop reaches 1,800-plus students

Shira Granot, director of community engagement at the Combat Antisemitism Movement, receives the tribute to the Mukhariq initiative on behalf of CAM from Luis Eduardo Afonso Andrade, president of the International Observatory for Human Rights. Credit: Courtesy.

Exemplary initiative brings together Jews and Muslims recognized in Porto

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