JNS The Daily Syndicate - Thursday, December 26, 2024

Thursday, December 26, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk ahead of a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024. Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Musk and Vance’s Germany comments and learning history’s lessons

Endorsements of the far-right AfD are misguided; still, those who draw conclusions from Angela Merkel’s historic immigration blunder are realists, not fascists.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch, speaks at the National Menorah lighting on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, in Washington, D.C., Dec. 25, 2024. Photo by Mike Wagenheim.

Overflow crowd, smiles and tears at National Menorah lighting in DC

Mike Wagenheim

Israeli Air Force jets. Credit: Maj. Ofer via Wikimedia Commons.

IAF hits Houthi terror sites across Yemen, including airport in Sanaa

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits a warehouse with humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip, at the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman, Jordan, on April 30, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

UN says 23 aid trucks looted, doesn’t say if new Israeli efforts successful

Mike Wagenheim

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres walks to the podium to address the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session in New York City on Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: U.N. Photo.

Mum about Chanukah, United Nations posts twice about Christmas

Menachem Wecker

Binyamin Regional Council and Yesha Council head Israel Ganz at Shiloh, Nov. 3, 2024. Photo by Josh Hasten.

Biden admin ‘spoke about us, didn’t speak to us,’ Yesha Council head says

Vita Fellig

Men check the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle, in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Dec. 26, 2024. Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images.

IAF targets Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists posing as journalists

Houthis protest against airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Sanaa, Yemen, in September 2015. Source: Henry Ridgwell/Voice of America.

Missile strikes alone will not defeat the Houthis

Yaakov Lappin

Students at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy helped the Jewish charity Met Council make and deliver more than 100 Chanukah care packages to needy Yeshiva University students in New York, December 2024. Credit: Natan Khafizov, NY Film Production/Met Council.

Jewish high-schoolers deliver Chanukah care packages to needy Yeshiva students

The Ghetto Fighters' House in Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot. Credit: Courtesy.

A reopened Holocaust museum near Lebanon is a symbol of resilience

Etgar Lefkovits

The first public menorah was lit at Independence Mall in Philadelphia 50 years ago. Today, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement erects some 15,000 giant Chanukah menorahs on public squares acround the world. In this 1976 photo, the Philadelphia menorah towers over Rabbi Abraham Shemtov (bottom left), director of Chabad of Philadelphia. The menorah that year was a part of the city's Bicentennial celebrations. Credit: Lubavitcher Center of Philadelphia via Chabad.org/News.

Chabad’s public menorahs a constant in Chanukah celebrations worldwide

Dovid Margolin

Cans of spray paint. Credit: Pixabay.

‘Especially galling’ Boston-area group hired artist who incites anti-Jewish violence

David Swindle

The world's largest chanukiyah with 25,000 balloons on display at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, Israel, on Dec. 25, 2024. Credit: Schneider Children's Medical Center.

Huge ‘chanukiyah’ with 25,000 balloons at Israeli hospital

Credit: WOKANDAPIX/Pixabay

ZOA calls for ‘more powerful’ response from school association against Jew-hatred

jns tv

Caroline B. Glick

The soldier who paved the way for the IDF fight against Hezbollah

The Quad

Comedian Modi: Speaking about Oct. 7 through laughter

opinion

The city of Jerusalem. Credit: Dome of Rock, Jerusalem/Pixabay.

Caroline B. Glick

The battle for Jerusalem

A Chanukah menorah created by two Israel Police sappers out of fragments of rockets launched into Israel by Hezbollah. Credit: Courtesy.

Melanie Phillips

The real message of Chanukah

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Miracles then and now

Arnon Z. Shorr

‘Judenrein’ Hollywood? The troubling trend in Jewish representation

Jason Shvili

Israel’s victories usher in a new era: Time to realign power in the Middle East

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