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Monday, December 2, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Mullett Arena on Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Ariz. on Oct. 24, 2024. Photo by Ash Ponders for “The Washington Post” via Getty Images.

From the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

America’s future depends on Trump’s promise to punish woke universities

Omer neutra

Friends and family attend a ceremony in Ra'anana, Israel, in memory of Omer Neutra, an Israeli soldier who was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, and whose body remains hostage in the Gaza Strip, Dec. 2, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.

‘Always looked out for the little guy,’ friends say of Omer Neutra

Izzy Salant

Ronen and Orna Neutra, whose son Omer was a hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speak at a "Bring Them Home" rally sponsored by the Israeli-American Council in Times Square, in the heart of New York City, in support of as many as 200 additional hostages, Oct. 19, 2023. Credit: IAC.

‘Devastated, outraged,’ Biden says of learning Omer Neutra’s death

IDF Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra was killed fighting Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

IDF: Officer believed to be alive in Gaza was killed on Oct. 7

Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman, moderates a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, on June 19, 2023, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

State Department: US hasn’t determined if Israel violated Lebanon ceasefire

Mike Wagenheim

U.S. President Donald Trump prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 22, 2017. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.

‘Hell to pay’ if hostages not released by inauguration day, Trump says

Andrew Bernard

Screen capture of a video that Houthi rebels released of a ship hijacking on Nov. 19, 2023 in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed terror group claimed the ship was tied to Israel. Credit: YouTube/Reuters.

Canada designates Houthis as terrorist entity under country’s criminal code

Dana Cwaigrach, co-director of the New York branch of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, speaks at a gathering of about 80 people outside of the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City to demand that U.N. Women take action for female hostages in Gaza, Dec. 2, 2024. Photo by Vita Fellig.

Protesters denounce UN Women’s silence on female hostages in Gaza

Vita Fellig

Performing arts center at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2017. Credit: ImagineerJC/Wikipedia.

Temple University resolves federal civil-rights probe for alleged anti-Jewish bias

David Swindle

An Israeli Navy warship off the coast of Haifa, on Aug. 1, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

IDF missile ship downs attack drone ‘from the east’ in Red Sea area

U.S. flag lowered to half-mast. Credit: Jonathan Simcoe via Wikimedia Commons.

New York governor orders flags to half-staff to honor Omer Neutra

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby speaks to reporters at the White House, Oct. 3, 2023. Photo by Oliver Contreras/White House.

Kirby cites Mark Twain quote about ‘good books’ on anti-Israel volume Biden carried in Nantucket

Front, from left, are Israeli Defense Ministry Director General Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir, Argentine Ambassador to Israel Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish and visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Alfonso Petri. Credit: Shlomi Amsalem and Nitzan Skiba/Israel Ministry of Defense.

Argentine defense minister in Israel, reaffirms Milei’s support

Smoke rises following Hezbollah rocket fire from Lebanon toward Israel's Mount Dov, Dec. 20, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolini/Flash90.

Hezbollah fires mortars at Israel on day six of truce

Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Jan. 10, 2024. Photo by Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

US welcomes year-long extension of Israel-PA banking relations

Sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer “USS Carney” respond to a simulated small-craft vessel during an anti-terrorism drill on Dec. 6, 2023. Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau/U.S. Navy.

US beating weapons not Houthis, Iranians pulling trigger, says former national security official

IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari briefs reporters in Tel Aviv, Oct. 16, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Hagari: Israel committed to the ceasefire in Lebanon

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators reinforce a barricade at an anti-Israel tent encampment at the University of Amsterdam on May 7, 2024, six months to the day of a violent citywide attack against Maccabi Tel Aviv sports fans on Nov. 7, 2024. Credit: Umbrellafighter via Wikimedia Commons.

Post-Amsterdam, envoys worldwide push plan to counter Jew-hatred

Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at the launch in Tel Aviv of the book "Dark Legacy: Netanyahu’s Abandonment of October 7th Hostages," Aug. 13, 2024. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Ya’alon: ‘Ethnic cleansing’ charge wasn’t directed at IDF troops

JNS Staff

A poster showing hostages still held captive by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 17, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Hamas waiting for US pressure on Israel to end war, close hostage deal

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis visit the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—as part of the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim), Nov. 29, 2024. Photo by Itzik Belenitzki/Kinus.com.

Facing terrorism, Chabad emissaries end conference with renewed resolve

Israel Defense Forces soldiers operate in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, Nov. 28, 2024. Photo by Oren Cohen/Flash90.

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Jonathan S. Tobin

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opinion

Rabbi Chaim Goldberg

First military rabbi killed in combat since Yom Kippur War

Dr. Eric R. Mandel

The lost opportunity to deal with Iran’s nuclear program

Dan Perla

The role of tuition pricing in day-school enrollment growth

Enia Krivine, Aaron Goren

The IDF is in Jabalia again, but this time there is nowhere for Hamas to run

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