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‘Very friendly’ Netanyahu-Trump call focused on Israeli victory, Gaza hostages, PM says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a "very friendly, warm and important" phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on the need to complete Jerusalem's victory over Iranian-backed terror proxies and free the hostages held by...
Holocaust hero’s legacy at risk
The Joseph Bau House Museum, dedicated to the legacy of Holocaust survivor and artist, is launching a critical fundraising campaign to secure its future.
The Tel-Aviv based museum currently operates in rented space within Bau’s...
Former assistant education secretary ‘encouraged’ by Trump nominees
Kenneth L. Marcus, a former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, told JNS on the sidelines of the Tikvah Fund’s Jewish Leadership Conference that he likes what he sees...
Trials expose logistics, planning behind Amsterdam pogrom
More than a month after dozens of Arab men went on a so-called “Jew hunt” for Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, the trials of seven suspects revealed this week new information on the logistics...
‘Women, life, freedom’: Netanyahu’s message to the Iranian people
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night extended an olive branch and delivered a message of hope to the Iranian people.
Below is the transcript of the video message:
"People of Iran:
As we see history...
Katz orders IDF to prepare for Judea and Samaria escalation
Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday to raise the state of alert in Judea and Samaria and prepare for a possible uptick in terrorist attacks in the area.
Katz said...
Educational malpractice and antisemitism resurgence in our schools
Ted and Nancy Sizer, giants in educational thought and practice, famously wrote The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract, which inextricably links what happens in our classrooms with what happens in our society....
Biden signs bill to study Weitzman Jewish museum joining Smithsonian
U.S. President Joe Biden signed H.R.7764, the “Commission to Study the Potential Transfer of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian Institution Act,” on Wednesday.
The legislation will create a group of eight people...
Denying Jewish sovereignty of Israel is antisemitic
In just a few weeks, the Jewish people will celebrate Chanukah, commemorating the end of the Greek occupation of Jerusalem and the restoration of Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem. The Maccabees lit a menorah, and...
Trump nominee for economic role is Jewish, pro-Israel author, national security adviser
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced earlier in the week that Jacob Helberg, a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and national security author and adviser, is his nominee for under secretary of...