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From left: Dan Diker, Director of the Political Warfare Project at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Elan Carr, Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, Gerald Steinberg, founder and president of NGO Monitor, Michal Hatuel-Radoschitzsky, research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, and Gerald Ostrov. Photo by Alex Traiman.

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New US envoy on anti-Semitism: No distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism

JNS - February 22, 2019

Elan Carr, the United States’ new envoy to combat anti-Semitism, told American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem that he will work to end the “attempted distinction”...

Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid of the new Blue and White Party at a joint a statement in Tel Aviv on Feb. 21, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Gantz and Lapid appeal for ‘unity,’ Netanyahu touts ‘strong leadership’

Israel February 22, 2019

The first Israeli lunar spacecraft, named “Beresheet,” was loaded into a special shipping container on Jan. 17, 2019 in Israel to be flown to Florida ahead of SpaceIL’s historic mission to the moon on Feb. 21, 2019. Photo by Tomer Levi.

Israel launched country’s first space mission to the moon

Israel February 22, 2019

Palestinian protestors during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Gaza-Israeli border in the southern Gaza Strip on July 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

IDF accounts about Hamas war crimes to be submitted to International...

Israel February 22, 2019

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

Macron declares that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism

News February 22, 2019

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Students celebrate at the BBYO International Convention 2018, which was held in Orland, Fla. Credit: Screenshot.

Largest donation to youth group yet made to BBYO

Community February 18, 2019

Young women arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport after a Nefesh B’Nefesh group aliyah flight, October 2018. Credit: Jonny Finkel Photography.

Nefesh B’Nefesh to host six ‘aliyah’ events across North America in...

Community February 14, 2019

Ir ot shoyn ayere biletn? Gedenkt: Dem zuntik, Februar 10, Idish...

Community February 7, 2019

Protest march in Buenos Aires 1 year death anniversary of Alberto Nisman

KKL-JNF to inaugurate monument in memory of Alberto Nisman, Special Prosecutor...

Community January 17, 2019

ORT to receive Let Freedom Ring Award

Community December 18, 2018

Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of Chabad of Chico, Calif., has been providing comfort and support to those who lost their homes, vehicles and possessions to fires that ravaged Northern California in November 2018. Credit: Chabad of Chico.

After the fires: Californians start to pick up the pieces of...

Community December 17, 2018

OP-EDS

Yellow vests movement protest in Belfort, France, on Dec. 1, 2018. Photo by Thomas Bresson/Wikimedia Commons.

Op-Eds

Is Western Europe no longer safe for Jews?

Jonathan S. Tobin - February 22, 2019

The good news is that on Tuesday, huge crowds of French citizens attended rallies against anti-Semitism throughout...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.

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A Threat beyond Terrorism: The Strategic Hazard of a Palestinian State

Louis René Beres - February 22, 2019

“A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at Warsaw summit, called “The Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East,” speaks with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz. To his left is the Yemen’s Foreign Minister Khalid Al Yamani ,and at far left is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo/Twitter.

Op-Eds

The growing pains of the Poland-Israel relationship

Fiamma Nirenstein - February 21, 2019

Perhaps it isn’t bad that sometimes when it comes to policy, the flag of historical...

Police escort a Palestinian charged with the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court, on Feb. 11, 2019. The suspect was captured hiding in Ramallah after Israeli forces investigated the scene where the young woman was found dead last week in Ein Yael, in the outskirts of Jerusalem. Photo Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Op-Eds

A terrorist too brutal even for the P.A.

Shoshana Bryen - February 21, 2019

The Palestinian Authority (PA) finally found a terrorist act committed by a Palestinian against an...

Days after U.S. President Donald Trump released a budget that would slash support for working families, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by 28 of their colleagues in the Senate, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, April 26, 2017.Credit: Office of Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Op-Eds

Record at a glance: Controversial stances by Sen. Bernie Sanders on US-Israel relationship

Jackson Richman - February 20, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on Tuesday his second run for the White House. While Sanders, 79, became...

Photo: The U.S. Navy's nuclear ballistic submarine USS MAINE (SSBN -41) one of the nations newest Ohio class submarines, conducts surface navigational operations approximately 50 miles due south of Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Credit: U.S. Navy

Op-Eds

The Hidden Complexities of U.S. Decision-Making on North Korea

Louis René Beres - February 20, 2019

“The existence of ‘system’ in the world is at once obvious to every observer of...

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