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Jacob Kamaras

Jacob Kamaras is the former editor in chief of the Jewish News Syndicate. His writing on the Middle East, American politics and Eurasia has appeared in The Washington Times, Independent Journal Review, The American Spectator, The Daily Caller, CNS News and other publications.

The two shows are “in the same jungle, but they’re different breeds. It has all the jokes that you would recognize from ‘Shtisel,’ but it also really stands in its own world,” actor Mili Avital told JNS.
“If we don’t stop anti-Semitism at a certain point, it will spread,” said Ahmed Khuzaie, director of U.S. affairs at Sharaka, calling the Shoah “a human story. It’s not just about the Jews.”
For Israel to take Azerbaijan’s side places it on the right side of history.
“It’s a recognition that not the entire Jewish world is centered in New York,” said Gary Jacobs, outgoing board chair of the JCC Association. “There needs to be leadership and representation from the West Coast.”
Azerbaijan and Israel both fought for and finally reclaimed their birthright.
“We are embracing the empathy that defines our true national character and enhancing the lives of individuals touched by disability,” says Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says at the grand opening of the Harvey and Gloria Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center.
This year’s winning entry in the accessible design contest, “Make the Change Challenge,” is a reimagined basketball hoop that makes it easier for people in wheelchairs and others to adjust the hoop’s height.
The FBI’s initial position on the Colleyville hostage crisis “brings up the need for education and information—that every single one of us draws these red lines and has these conversations” surrounding anti-Semitism, says StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
“Even when politics fail and political deals collapse, we want to have enough of the social and cultural relationships between people so that they always have something to fall back on,” said Chama Mechtaly, an Amazigh-Moroccan activist and artist.