JNS The Daily Syndicate - Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Wednesday, December 4, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Presidential candidate Donald Trump with the family of hostage Edan Alexander at the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, on the first anniversary of the Hamas-led invasion of the Negev, Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.

from the editor in chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed

Israel Defense Forces reservists evacuate wounded soldiers under fire in Khan Yunis. Credit: The Israeli Reservists—Generation of Victory.

WATCH: IDF troops in Gaza rescue wounded under heavy Hamas fire

Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly speaks during the General Assembly 39th plenary meeting at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City on on Nov. 28, 2023. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.

UN approves major conference in push for Palestinian state

Mike Wagenheim

An Amnesty International demonstration in Senate Square calling for the Finnish government and European Union to actively work for an immediate ceasefire in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Nov. 21, 2023. Credit: rajatonvimma via Wikimedia Commons.

Amnesty International to release report accusing Israel of genocide

David Swindle

latest news

Recently recovered deceased hostages: Top (from left) Nadav Popplewell, Yoram Metzger and Avraham Munder; bottom (from left) Chaim Peri, Yagev Buchshtav and Alex Dancyg. Credit: Courtesy.

IDF: Hamas likely murdered six hostages in Khan Yunis

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

Senate passes bill to consider transferring Weitzman museum to Smithsonian

Andrew Bernard

Jared Isaacman speaks at the 30th Annual National Character and Leadership Symposium in Arnold Hall at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Feb. 23, 2023. Credit: Trevor Cokley/U.S. Air Force via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump names Jewish tech entrepreneur to head NASA

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

Long Island shul hosts memorial service for Oct. 7 terror victim Omer Neutra

Booking photo for Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, from Nov. 22, 2024. Credit: Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

Chicago Jewish groups react to suicide of man who shot Jewish worshipper

David Swindle

Adam Boehler (left) in Morocco as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli delegation to Rabat to meet with King Mohammed VI and other officials, and to sign various Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), Dec. 22, 2020. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump taps Abraham Accords negotiator as envoy for hostage affairs

Desks in a classroom. Photo by DeltaWorks/Pixabay.

House hearing discusses radical indoctrination of young students

Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, speaks at the Israeli-American Council annual summit in Washington, D.C., in September 2024. Credit: Eclipse Media/Israeli-American Council.

Special envoy Lipstadt traveling to Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE

At the 36th annual Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles are (from left) Ynon Kreiz, Mattel chairman and CEO; actress Gal Gadot; and Meir Fenistein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, which ran from Nov. 13-26, 2024. Photo by Jordan Strauss/January Images.

Israeli Film Festival in LA screens 40-plus pictures, draws 7,000 people

Israeli hostage Itai Svirsky died in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli-German hostage’s body retrieved from Gaza for burial

Then-Energy Minister Israel Katz attends a conference in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Katz: Real chance for hostage deal with Hamas

Chanukiyah with oil candles. Credit: Ri-Ya/Pixabay.

UK Chanukah initiative to ‘shine light’ on hostages in Gaza

Israeli security forces during a counter-terrorism raid in the Nablus area in Samaria, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

IDF: Security forces attacked by citizens in Samaria; several arrested

Thai killed by dropped ordnance won’t get war victim status

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a press conference at the United Nations on Sept. 19, 2017. Credit: Kim Haughton/U.N. Photo.

Macron announces French-Saudi conference for Palestinian state

Welcoming olim at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 2024. Credit: Courtesy Nefesh of B'Nefesh.

‘Aliyah’ drops 36% due to slump from Ukraine, Russia

Canaan Lidor

A bust of Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion on the campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Photo courtesy of Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU).

120-plus organizations join A4BGU for third annual Ben-Gurion Day in USA

European parliamentarians meet in Brussels in an effort to have Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps designated as a terrorist organization, Dec. 4, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

European lawmakers renew push to list the IRGC as terror group

Etgar Lefkovits

Haredi soldiers at the graduation ceremony at the technical base in Haifa for the Level A Technician Course on Dec. 3, 2024. Credit: IDF.

IAF launches first haredi aircraft maintenance facility

JNS TV | Israel undiplomatic

Ruthie Blum, Mark Regev

Trump takes the reins! Middle East scrambles before inauguration

opinion

Israeli soldiers advance towards a helicopter during the Second Lebanon War, Aug. 12, 2006. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.

featured column

Mitchell Bard

Has Israel repeated the mistake of 2006 with its ceasefire?

Ten Israeli couples with a member serving in the Israel Defense Forces taking part in a mass wedding ceremony part of Chabad of Savyon’s “Marrying the Warriors,” in Tel Aviv Port, March 5, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

featured column

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Marriage tips from Jacob?

Charles Jacobs, Ben Poser

How to take down black antisemites like Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sarah N. Stern

On the Syrian spiral of complexity

Zev Hurwitz

Appellate court ruling can make Jewish education more accessible

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