JNS The Daily Syndicate - Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Wednesday, October 23, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

A runner passes the pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas and anti-Israel Gaza solidarity encampment on University of Michigan's campus in Ann Arbor on May 4, 2024, Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

The DEI scam destroying education and fomenting antisemitism must end

An insightful case study of how it works at the University of Michigan demonstrates the danger of allowing woke ideological rule. The next administration can do something about it.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to the press before leaving Ben-Gurion Airport International in Tel Aviv, Israel, en route to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 23, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Senior US officials have daily job of auditing Israeli aid to Gaza, Blinken says in Tel Aviv press conference

"We've had periods before where the Israelis have increased what they're doing only to see it fall back," the U.S. secretary of state said.

Menachem Wecker

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 22, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

‘Unique opportunity’ in Gaza after Sinwar’s death, Herzog, Blinken say

Family and friends of Col. Ehsan Daxa attend his funeral in Daliyat al-Karmel, northern Israel, on Oct. 21, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Grieving Druze double down on bond of blood with Israel

Canaan Lidor

Hadassa Ben Ari (right), the head of "The Heroes of October 7th: Heroic Stories for Children" project, embraces a hero. Credit: Courtesy.

‘The Heroes of October 7th’ presents tales of valor for youngsters

Sharon Altshul

Students from the Derech Avot High School of the Ohr Torah Stone educational network in Efrat visit the family of a Druze police officer, 19-year-old Yazan Falah, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Hadera on March 27, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Ohr Torah Stone.

Ohr Torah Stone is working hard to strengthen the home front

Amelie Botbol

Maj. (res.) Aviram Hariv died battling Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, Oct. 22, 2024. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

Soldier killed in Southern Lebanon, bringing IDF toll to 752

Israelis take cover as air-raid sirens are activated in Tel Aviv, Oct. 23, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.

Hezbollah rockets fired at Tel Aviv for second day in a row

Israelis visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in the northwestern Negev, Sept. 24, 2024. Photo by Israel Hadari/Flash90.

Hundreds pray at Nova massacre site ahead of Hebrew anniversary of Oct. 7

A drone launched by Hezbollah flies over the Israeli border on Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

IDF downs three drones fired from Iraq

MK Simcha Rothman, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman, leads a meeting at the parliament in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Knesset to advance bill denying PA right to petition High Court

JNS Staff

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 4, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Poll: Gaza war ranks low on priority list for average American voter

David Swindle

George Kafka holds a Torah with a mantle dedicated in memory of his relative Sgt. Adi Gruman, an IDF soldier who was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, given to the Modern Orthodox congregation Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center in Livingston, N.J., through the Simchat Torah Project. Credit: Courtesy.

Torah mantles to be unveiled on Simchat Torah honor victims of Oct. 7

Faygie Holt

The U.S. Department of Education in Washington. Credit: Emma K. Alexandra/Creative Commons.

NY school district will respond ‘diligently’ to federal probe of response to swastika vandalism

David Swindle

U.S. Treasury Department. Credit: U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Treasury informs banks how to identify Hezbollah’s ties to monetary crimes

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 25, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Sen. Rubio's Office.

‘Act of treason,’ Rubio says of leaked US intel on Israel

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 22, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

State Department: UN Resolution 1701 only way to end war with Hezbollah

Gavel. Credit: Katrin Bolovtsova/Pexels.

Philly man, who faced up to 40 years for death threats against Jews, Muslims, gets 16 months

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, June 2, 2019. Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Sanders calls for review of IDF airstrike in Gaza that injured journalists

P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, May 5, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

Israeli terror victims file record lawsuit against PA

IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari at the "Israel Hayom" conference in Ashkelon, April 16, 2024. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90.

IDF demands ‘Channel 14′ remove meme ridiculing chief of staff

An FBI response team collects evidence at the Washington Navy Yard in the U.S. capital on Sept. 18, 2013. Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Pedro A. Rodriguez/U.S. Navy Photo.

FBI confirms probe into leaked intel on IAF Iran strike prep

An 1,800-year-old ring engraved with a Goddess of War from Roman and Greek mythology. Photo by Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israel: Ten of thousands of archaeological relics uncovered in 2024

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

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Dry Bones

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opinion

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, on the sidelines of the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session on Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: Eskinder Debebe/U.N. Photo.

Ben Cohen

Guterres embraces the authoritarians

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin acknowledge applause and support during a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., during which President Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords, Sept. 18, 1978. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mitchell Bard

There is no compromise in a religious war

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Five reasons to be depressed about the war

A picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah near a U.N. station by the Lebanese border with Israel, July 19, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

When Israel’s enemies lay down arms, so can Israel

Runners at the New York City Marathon participate in the marathon minyan before start time. Credit: Courtesy of the International Minyan.

Be part of the ‘minyan’ tradition at the New York City Marathon

College students participate in a Yavneh shabbaton. Credit: Courtesy.

Yavneh receives two grants from Jewish National Fund-USA

The room in the Annex that Anne Frank shared with Fritz Pfeffer shown furnished as it would have been while Anne was in hiding. Credit: Courtesy of the Anne Frank House.

New York exhibition to recreate Anne Frank’s annex

A wreath to honor nine fallen graduates of the Kfar Silver Youth Village near Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024. Credit: ORT America.

ORT America hosts Oct. 7 memorial with students, officials at youth village near Gaza border

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