JNS The Daily Syndicate - Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Wednesday, October 2, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participate in a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Iran and Israel lead off vice-presidential debate

President Joe Biden participates in a call with G7 leaders from the Oval Office about the situation in the Middle East, Oct. 2, 2024. Photo by Adam Schultz/White House.

Biden opposes Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites

Lloyd Austin, the U.S. secretary of defense, speaks with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant prior to meeting with the Israeli War Cabinet in Tel Aviv on Oct. 13, 2023. Credit: Chad McNeeley/U.S. Department of Defense.

US ‘well-postured’ to defend Mid East allies, Austin tells Gallant

Credit: bernswaelz/Pixabay.

IDF names eight soldiers killed in battle with Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, briefs reporters ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Oct. 2, 2024. Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo.

Israel declares Guterres persona non grata on Rosh Hashanah eve

Attendees sing “Hativkah” at a memorial marking the anniversary of the the Oct. 7 terrorists attack in Israel, held at Yeshiva University's Washington Heights campus in New York City on Sept. 30, 2024. Credit: Yeshiva University.

‘Horrific event is a part of our identity’: Memorial at Yeshiva marks Oct. 7 anniversary

Beekeepers and second-generation honey manufacturers are getting the last honey and almonds gift package orders ready, two days ahead of the Jewish New Year. Moshav Givat Yoav, Golan Heights on Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

This year, Israeli honey is made of ‘blood, sweat and tears’

Interior of a synagogue. Credit: Cottonbro Studio/Pexels.

For first High Holidays after Oct. 7, rabbis weigh very weighty sermons

Israeli authorities locate 30 missing people in Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha near the central Gaza Strip, Oct. 9, 2023. Credit: IDF.

Tragedy and resilience: The communities of Israel’s western Negev

John Spencer. Credit: Courtesy.

Urban-warfare expert: Hezbollah suffered catastrophic damage

Exterior of the U.S. State Department's Harry S. Truman Building in May 2024. Credit: Linda D. Epstein/U.S. State Department.

On same day Iran fires 200 ballistic missiles at Jewish state, US sanctions Israelis

The IDF downs ballistic missiles fired from Iran at Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Iran’s attack on Israel widely condemned

Israeli soldiers from the 6th Brigade at the Lebanese border in recent days, in a picture published on Oct. 2, 2024. Credit: IDF.

IDF adds troops to ground op as Hezbollah rains rockets on north

Police at the scene of a terror shooting attack in Tel Aviv-Jaffa on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Itai Ron/Flash90.

Police: One Jaffa terrorist killed, one seriously wounded

The site of the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sept. 29, 2024. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.

Does Hezbollah’s disarray leave Iran’s nuke sites vulnerable?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers an address to the nation from Jerusalem regarding Hezbollah, the targeted killing of its leader Hassan Nasrallah and the situation on the Lebanese border, Sept. 28, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel confronting Iran’s ‘axis of evil,’ Netanyahu says

Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter at the Ben Gurion airport as a siren alert is sounded in Tel Aviv, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Dor Pazuelo/Flash90.

Israel’s response to Iranian attack will be ‘precise and surprising’

Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Lebanon, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Survey: Strong US backing for Israeli military action against Iranian proxies

Flowers are placed at the Israeli embassy in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, in solidarity and support with the country on Oct. 13, 2023. Photo by Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images.

Police probing two blasts near Israeli embassy in Denmark

The aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7 invasion of Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel, April 7, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

‘We survived, but we can’t heal until this ends’

Sarah Idan, who represented Iraq at the 2017 Miss Universe pageant, on a visit to Jerusalem with the Maccabee Task Force, Dec. 8, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Former Miss Iraq: ‘Israel is the only one standing against the terrorists’

Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Zaita on Sept. 23, 2024. Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images.

Most Israeli Jews support attacking Hezbollah, poll shows

A huge crowd of anti-Israel protesters hold flags and pictures of Hassan Nasrallah, late leader of the Hezbollah terror group, and a Hezbollah flag in Sydney on Sept. 29, 2024. Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images.

Australian teen charged with waving Hezbollah flag at Sydney rally

Jews pray for forgiveness ahead of Rosh Hashanah at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sept. 20, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Jewish population hits 15.8 million globally

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on Sept. 28, 2024. Photo by Itai Ron/Flash90.

2024 broke 75-year-old heat record in Israel

The Main Reading Halls at the new National Library of Israel building. Photo by Iwan Baan.

National Library of Israel special survey: Books published since Oct. 7

An item from the Kol Shofar workshop, owned by shofar specialist Shimon Keinan, in Givat Yoav in the southern Golan Heights, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Rosh Hashanah 2024 guide

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

Ben-Gurion Airport operating normally following Iranian attack

Etgar Lefkovits

School classroom. Credit: WokandPix/Pixabay.

Pro bono legal helpline launched for reporting incidents of antisemitism at K-12 schools

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Md.) speaks to reporters in the Senate Subway during a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2024. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

Jewish leaders in Virginia oppose Kaine’s call to stop weapon transfers to Israel

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the plenum hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Caroline B. Glick

The secret of Netanyahu’s unacknowledged and historic popularity

“The New York Times” building in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

The media race for debasement

Rabbi Menachem Schmidt

Effective steps for confronting campus antisemitism

Rabbi Vanessa Harper

Braiding in the New Year

Israel unchained

The ethics of war and peace

Jerold S. Auerbach

Occupied or liberated?

Andrew D. Lappin

To the pondering Jew

America needs to hear this year’s call of the shofar

Parts of an Iranian missile that fell near the Beit El settlement in Ramallah in the West Bank on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Flash90.

Iran attacks Israel following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah

A woman visits the site of the Nova Festival. Photo by Ziv Coren for Mekimi.

Mekimi: A global platform for Oct. 7 remembrances launches

A screening and discussion of “Screams Before Silence,” co-hosted by the Seed the Dream Foundation and Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, was shown one week before that first-year marker of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, Sept. 26, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

‘Screams Before Silence’ screening and discussion grapple with violence against women on Oct. 7

The Z3 Project celebrates 10 years. Credit: Courtesy.

The Z3 Project celebrates 10 years of open dialogue

Unloading pallets of food items that will be sent across Ukraine to Jewish communities large and small in advance of Rosh Hashanah, which starts the evening of Oct. 2, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Relief Network Ukraine.

Ukraine’s war-weary Jews faces third New Year under siege

U.S. Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson administers the oath of office to Leon Panetta, the 23rd U.S. secretary of defense, during a Pentagon ceremony on July 1, 2011. U.S. Department of Defense Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey via Wikimedia Commons.

AFL shocked and dismayed by Leon Panetta’s statement on beeper attack

$The Vladimir Schreiber Institute of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Credit: Math Knight via Wikimedia Commons.$

Philanthropist to fund immersive STEM programs at Tel Aviv University

Anti-missile system fires interception missiles as missiles fired from Iran, as seen in the West Bank on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

Iranian terror will be at America’s doorstep, Princess Noor Pahlavi warns

HaZamir's the teen education and engagement director of the HaZamir: The International Jewish Teen Choir. Credit: Courtesy.

HaZamir education director receives Pomegranate Prize

Matthew Lazar. Credit: Courtesy of Zamir Choral Foundation.

Major gift to create Zamir Choral Foundation’s conducting institute

Tamir Idan, head of the Sdot Negev Regional Council, speaks at La'Aretz Foundation's event at Malka NYC in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 23, 2024. Photo by Justine Rudy.

Malka NYC’s Brooklyn grand opening benefits efforts to rebuild Israel

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