JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, October 11, 2024

Friday, October 11, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Jewish and pro-Israel supporters attend a vigil at Union Square in New York City to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

American Jews failed themselves and their children after Oct. 7

That only a few brave souls have stood up to antisemitic mobs tells us that something is very, very wrong. Are we capable of uniting and fighting back against anti-Zionists?

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in her West Wing Office of the White House, Aug. 4, 2021. Credit: Erin Scott/White House.

Harris ‘unwavering’ about Israel’s security, she says in High Holidays pitch to Jewish voters

Andrew Bernard

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Oct. 1, 2024. Credit: Oliver Contreras/White House.

US slaps sanctions on Iran’s ‘ghost fleet’ oil-tanker network

Andrew Bernard

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Credit: No. 10 Downing Street.

US, world leaders issue Yom Kippur messages

Items 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.

Pressed on its silence about Jewish holidays, UN wishes ‘happy, peaceful Yom Kippur’

Mike Wagenheim

Robert Wood, deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, addresses the 51st plenary meeting of the General Assembly on Jan. 9, 2024. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

Lebanese army, UNIFIL must ‘step up,’ Israeli envoy says

Mike Wagenheim

Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, speaks at a press briefing about the U.N Relief and Works Agency on Oct. 10, 2024. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

UNRWA has not been told its Jerusalem office is being confiscated, UN says

Mike Wagenheim

Anthony Housefather, a member of the Canadian Parliament and the country's special advisor on Jewish community relations and antisemitism, at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre cafeteria in Toronto. Photo by Dave Gordon.

Jewish Canadian parliamentarian defends Trudeau, targets Samidoun

Dave Gordon

Medics take a 13-year-old girl, seriously wounded by a terrorist in Kiryat Arba in Judea, to the emergency room at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on June 30, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Wounded terrorist tries to seize soldier’s rifle in ambulance

An Iron Dome battery in Ashkelon fires an interceptor missile at rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on Aug. 7, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

IDF downs drone after air-raid sirens triggered in Ashkelon

Aerial view of Brown University in Providence, R.I. Credit: Inning Club via Wikimedia Commons.

Brown votes not to divest from Israel, leaves door open to making political investment statements

Andrew Bernard

An Israeli Air Force Boeing 707 tanker aircraft fuels an IAF F-15 fighter jet, June 28 2011. Photo by Ofer Zidon/Flash90.

Israel, US nearing consensus on Iran strike

Terrorists attend the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in Nur Shams camp, near Tulkarem in Samaria, July 3, 2024. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

IAF kills Islamic Jihad chief in Samaria’s Nur Shams camp

Wildfires following a missile attack by Hezbollah in Lebanon near Korazim in northern Israel on Oct. 9, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

IDF: Civilian killed by ‘unexploded ammunition’ in Kibbutz Yir’on

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks at the University of Michigan on Jan. 21, 2015. Credit: Sean Carter Photography/Creative Commons.

Ta-Nehisi Coates chided for saying if he grew up in Gaza, he might’ve joined Oct. 7 attack

Former President Donald Trump attends an Oct. 7 remembrance event at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Doral, Fla., on Oct. 07, 2024. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Trump calls US vote ‘most important day in the history of Israel’

Miri Weissman

Hamas terrorists kidnapped Eitan Yahalomi from Kibbutz Nir Oz. Screenshot: "Children of October 7."

‘Civilians beat us’: Israeli teen discusses Hamas captivity

The controversial bus after being renamed. Credit: Courtesy.

Can you call a bus ‘Israel’ in India?

Erez Linn and Neta Bar

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the BoI offices in Jerusalem, on Oct. 9, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Approaching the end of cash in Israel?

Natan Galula

An Air France flight at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, Dec. 5, 2010. Photo by Kentaro Lemoto via Wikimedia Commons.

Air France flight nearly hit during Iranian attack on Israel

Nissan Shtrauchler

The blowing of the shofar as Jews arrive for Selichot penitential prayers at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem two days before Yom Kippur, Oct. 9, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Guide for Yom Kippur 2024

Gavel. Credit: VBlock/Pixabay.

Neo-Nazi in Australia faces prison in first conviction for ‘Sieg Heil’ salute

Author and journalist Bob Woodward at the “CNN” International Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 21, 2022, Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.

‘War’ by Woodward reports Biden angrily swearing at Netanyahu in past year

Rabbi David Yosef leaving after giving a Torah lesson during a visit to Safed in the Upper Galilee, Nov. 16, 2017. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli chief rabbi urges nationwide prayer for hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on March 1, 1973. Photo by Marion S. Trikosko via Wikimedia Commons.

Golda Meir in newly released tape: ‘Weakness will not be forgiven’

From left: Ryan Turell; Father Ed Benioff of Church of the Good Shepherd; Rabbi Erez Sherman of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles; Omar Qudrat of Muslim Coalition for America; and NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom. Credit: Courtesy of Miller Ink.

Year-long course at LA shul to prepare students for facing hate on campus

American actor and comedian Michael Rapaport speaks at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Dec. 16, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Michael Rapaport and Sid Rosenberg tour Judea and Samaria

podcast

Yishai Fleisher

A year of triumph (guest Ben Bresky)

opinion

A school in Khan Yunis—many serve as weapons depots, using civilians, even students, as human shields—in the southern Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike, Oct. 9, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

featured column

Ben Cohen

War fatigue settles among Palestinians

Rabbi Moshe Hauer

Days of awe: A time for hard choices

Kenneth Levin

Five Jewish false beliefs about domestic antisemitism

Yuval David

This Yom Kippur …

Bob Zeidman

The Democrats seem to have a problem saying no to Iran

Israelis visit the site of the Nova music festival massacre in Re'im, in southern Israel, Oct. 6, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Horrors, hostages and heroes: The first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks

An El Al 787 Dreamliner. Credit: Courtesy.

El Al Israel airlines promotes Israeli culture abroad

Students in Herzliya celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut with OU-JLIC. Credit: Courtesy.

OU-JLIC Israel opens three new chapters, brings total to 10

Former NBA star and L.A. Laker Josh Powell, center, meets with with Yosi Shnaider, far left, whose cousin Yarden Bibas and family remain in Hamas captivity. Also at the meeting at the World Jewish Sports Museum were, from left, former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball player Tal Brody, museum staffer Adi Ratzon and global ambassador of the Maccabi World Union Eric Rubin. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Former LA Laker Josh Powell meets with relatives of Bibas family

Debra Lust Zaluda, presaident of the Jewish National Fund-USA, at the Oct. 7 memorial ceremony at Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish National Fund-USA ceremony in Israel remembers Oct. 7 victims

Under red light, which is used to film the bees without disturbing them, one barcoded bee is detected by the image-analysis software, and its personal identification number appears on the screen. Photo by Danny Minahan.

Honeybees need a healthy New Year, too, Hebrew U study

Aleph Institute volunteers spent Rosh Hashanah at the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, in Connecticut, bringing the joy of the holiday to those behind bars. Credit: Courtesy.

Aleph Institute celebrates Rosh Hashanah with Jews behind bars

Paricipants at the Shuk Olim-Chag Event. Credit: Courtesy of Nefesh B'Nefesh.

Celebratory events bring new ‘olim’ together before Rosh Hashanah

A Torah dedication in New York City to honor the victims of the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2024. Credit: Hallie Geller/Chabad Young Professionals Upper East Side.

New York City marks Oct. 7 with Torah dedication and march

American Zionist Movement's image for its digital media campaign commemorating Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

AZM shares social-media images for the digital commemoration of Oct. 7

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