Aaron Bandler is an award-winning national reporter at JNS based in Los Angeles. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked for nearly eight years at the Jewish Journal, and before that, at the Daily Wire.
“We will not allow terrorism in Judea and Samaria to raise its head,” the Israeli PM said before convening a high-level meeting on the recent wave of shootings.
“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.
A 51-year-old Israeli was seriously wounded near Itamar, while a Paratrooper sustained light injuries in a separate attack near Ganim.
Two additional Hamas operatives were eliminated alongside Abdallah Jahja, the military and Shin Bet said.
The New York City Police Department told JNS that the suspect is being charged with “attempted murder as a hate crime, attempted murder, assault as a hate crime, two counts of assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.”
The teacher alleged Portland Public Schools allowed Palestinian flags and anti-Israel displays while administrators told him that displaying “an Israeli flag or related symbols would be too disruptive.”
The Islamic Republic’s foreign minister threatened on Friday to kill a U.S. soldier for every Iranian killed in the war, as Trump speculated that regime leaders might “cry uncle” or “go into a cave and hide.”
“Shame on Mamdani and those who continue to parade this dangerous rhetoric,” Daniel S. Mariaschin of B’nai B’rith International told JNS.-
“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.
Washington announced it had laid out the legal foundation for a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Riyadh over a civilian nuclear energy program.
Diaspora Affairs Ministry said six Israelis were targeted after speaking Hebrew at a northern Mongolian campsite, where attackers reportedly shouted “Heil Hitler.”
“We remain among the most targeted minority groups in Canada,” Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS. 
The deputy director of the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Research Institute told JNS the former Hamas leader instructed terrorists to document atrocities against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Israel must immediately dismantle the 70,000-strong P.A. force to prevent a catastrophe potentially far worse than Oct. 7.
Questions emerge over claims the former Iranian president was part of an Israeli campaign to reshape Iran’s leadership.
With the principal blocs separated by a handful of seats in most polls, the campaign could be decided less by movement between Netanyahu’s Likud and Eisenkot’s Yashar than by which smaller parties survive the 3.25% electoral threshold.
The president’s refusal to appease Tehran, along with his insistence that Riyadh recognize Israel if it wants a nuclear program, are potential political liabilities. But both stands are right.
All electoral surveys should be taken with a grain of cynicism, especially those presented as some kind of gold standard for showing a left-wing victory.
Any lasting solution will require more than legislation or enforcement measures.
As impossible as renewed happiness may seem after such an intense loss, we must celebrate those who choose to rebuild the most personal parts of their lives.
“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Rabbi David Eliezrie, Ep. 231
Barry Levitt, 80, died when a residential balcony collapsed onto an Angel Bakery store in the city’s Rehavia neighborhood.
Judit Polgar said she lacked the strength to take on the role and therefore could not accept.
The government owes its Jewish citizens more than silence and prosecutorial drift. It owes them the same good-faith accommodation that the rest of Europe has managed to provide.
An ancient community has, in its small way, resurrected itself.
“We’re a tiny percentage of the population, yet we’re over 50% of the attacks, and the mayor’s diatribes don’t help,” Rabbi Allen Schwartz of Ohab Zedek, a synagogue the victim attends, told JNS on the fast of Tisha B’Av.
“When the mayor of New York repeatedly uses his platform to relentlessly single out and demonize Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, and calls those who support it ‘monsters,’ he contributes to a climate in which Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly targeted and unsafe,” Eric Goldstein, CEO of the UJA, said at a press conference.
The effort to single out Jewish and Israeli tourists was widely condemned by Italian politicians across the political spectrum.
“He was smiling. He has a winning demeanor, but I don’t expect to see any changes,” Rabbi Gerald Sussman, of Temple Emanu-El of Staten Island, told JNS.
“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”
“We will not allow hatred to dictate whether we remain in New York,” Rivkie Feiner, a board member of the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County, told JNS. “Our history is defined by resilience, not surrender, and that will not change now.”
Former BDS supporter Klaas Mokgomole told JNS that a firsthand visit to the Jewish state overturned years of anti-Israel indoctrination.
According to CyberWell, social media posts tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup falsely claim the Argentine soccer star is Jewish or controlled by Jews while recycling conspiracy theories about Jewish control of FIFA.
“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Gadi Taub, Ep. 230
Discrimination is embedded in the app’s zoom function; at an average level of magnification, Arab localities appear on the map while neighboring Jewish communities do not.
In the first quarter of the 20th century, the founder of Zionist Revisionism and the Betar Zionist youth movement had turned his attention to a parallel matter still relevant to our time.
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“We will not allow terrorism in Judea and Samaria to raise its head,” the Israeli PM said before convening a high-level meeting on the recent wave of shootings.
“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.
A 51-year-old Israeli was seriously wounded near Itamar, while a Paratrooper sustained light injuries in a separate attack near Ganim.
Two additional Hamas operatives were eliminated alongside Abdallah Jahja, the military and Shin Bet said.
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The New York City Police Department told JNS that the suspect is being charged with “attempted murder as a hate crime, attempted murder, assault as a hate crime, two counts of assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.”
The teacher alleged Portland Public Schools allowed Palestinian flags and anti-Israel displays while administrators told him that displaying “an Israeli flag or related symbols would be too disruptive.”
The Islamic Republic’s foreign minister threatened on Friday to kill a U.S. soldier for every Iranian killed in the war, as Trump speculated that regime leaders might “cry uncle” or “go into a cave and hide.”
“Shame on Mamdani and those who continue to parade this dangerous rhetoric,” Daniel S. Mariaschin of B’nai B’rith International told JNS.
-
“Your decision to convene in Israel during these challenging times is a profound demonstration of friendship, solidarity and confidence in our nation,” Michael Izhakov, director general of the Israeli Tourism Ministry, told the Christian tourists.
Washington announced it had laid out the legal foundation for a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Riyadh over a civilian nuclear energy program.
Diaspora Affairs Ministry said six Israelis were targeted after speaking Hebrew at a northern Mongolian campsite, where attackers reportedly shouted “Heil Hitler.”
“We remain among the most targeted minority groups in Canada,” Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS.
-
The deputy director of the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Research Institute told JNS the former Hamas leader instructed terrorists to document atrocities against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Israel must immediately dismantle the 70,000-strong P.A. force to prevent a catastrophe potentially far worse than Oct. 7.
Questions emerge over claims the former Iranian president was part of an Israeli campaign to reshape Iran’s leadership.
With the principal blocs separated by a handful of seats in most polls, the campaign could be decided less by movement between Netanyahu’s Likud and Eisenkot’s Yashar than by which smaller parties survive the 3.25% electoral threshold.
-
The president’s refusal to appease Tehran, along with his insistence that Riyadh recognize Israel if it wants a nuclear program, are potential political liabilities. But both stands are right.
All electoral surveys should be taken with a grain of cynicism, especially those presented as some kind of gold standard for showing a left-wing victory.
Any lasting solution will require more than legislation or enforcement measures.
As impossible as renewed happiness may seem after such an intense loss, we must celebrate those who choose to rebuild the most personal parts of their lives.
-
“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Rabbi David Eliezrie, Ep. 231
-
Barry Levitt, 80, died when a residential balcony collapsed onto an Angel Bakery store in the city’s Rehavia neighborhood.
Judit Polgar said she lacked the strength to take on the role and therefore could not accept.
The government owes its Jewish citizens more than silence and prosecutorial drift. It owes them the same good-faith accommodation that the rest of Europe has managed to provide.
An ancient community has, in its small way, resurrected itself.
-
“We’re a tiny percentage of the population, yet we’re over 50% of the attacks, and the mayor’s diatribes don’t help,” Rabbi Allen Schwartz of Ohab Zedek, a synagogue the victim attends, told JNS on the fast of Tisha B’Av.
“When the mayor of New York repeatedly uses his platform to relentlessly single out and demonize Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, and calls those who support it ‘monsters,’ he contributes to a climate in which Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly targeted and unsafe,” Eric Goldstein, CEO of the UJA, said at a press conference.
The effort to single out Jewish and Israeli tourists was widely condemned by Italian politicians across the political spectrum.
“He was smiling. He has a winning demeanor, but I don’t expect to see any changes,” Rabbi Gerald Sussman, of Temple Emanu-El of Staten Island, told JNS.
-
“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”
“We will not allow hatred to dictate whether we remain in New York,” Rivkie Feiner, a board member of the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County, told JNS. “Our history is defined by resilience, not surrender, and that will not change now.”
Former BDS supporter Klaas Mokgomole told JNS that a firsthand visit to the Jewish state overturned years of anti-Israel indoctrination.
According to CyberWell, social media posts tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup falsely claim the Argentine soccer star is Jewish or controlled by Jews while recycling conspiracy theories about Jewish control of FIFA.
-
“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Gadi Taub, Ep. 230
Discrimination is embedded in the app’s zoom function; at an average level of magnification, Arab localities appear on the map while neighboring Jewish communities do not.
In the first quarter of the 20th century, the founder of Zionist Revisionism and the Betar Zionist youth movement had turned his attention to a parallel matter still relevant to our time.
