Mothers honor fallen children in emotional art exhibition
Cpt. Eden Nimri, 22, was a champion swimmer who could have represented Israel at the Olympics. On Oct. 7, 2023, she was murdered at Nahal Oz base as she fiercely defended her soldiers, still...
In Passover message, Herzog urges immediate release of hostages
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, on Monday visited the family of twin brothers Ziv and Gali Berman, who were abducted by Hamas terrorists from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, 2023,...
Netanyahu to Macron: Palestinian state would be ‘reward for terror’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Tuesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, warning that the establishment of a Palestinian state would be “a major reward for terrorism” and a strategic threat to the Jewish...
Why Israel should embrace its role as a regional power
In the classic British satire “The Mouse That Roared,” a tiny, fictional nation declares war on the United States, not with the hope of winning, but in order to lose and receive generous post-war...
Trump admin freezes more than $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard
The federal Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced on Monday that it is freezing $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million worth of contracts to Harvard University, after the private Ivy League school said that...
The Kibbutzim 1.5 years After October 7th: Communities Rehabilitation, Reconstruction Challenges, Need for Philanthropy,...
Neri Sotan, CEO of The Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund, talked to The Jewish Web Site on the Israeli Government Failures, Urgent Needs of Northern Kibbutzim and rehabilitation costs. According to Governmental assessments, rebuilding...
‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen dies at 87
Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose iconic daily cartoons were published by JNS for the last several years, died at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on Monday after a lengthy illness, aged 87.
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Passover emphasizes the communal identity of the Jewish people
Many in Israel are focusing their Passover thoughts on the 59 Israelis still languishing in Hamas captivity. Unsurprisingly, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum recently published a new Haggadah that tells the holiday story...
Hezbollah crackdown in Europe indicates it’s time for the EU to blacklist it
The Spanish “Guardia Civil,” one of the country’s security forces, arrested three Lebanese individuals on April 2 in an international counterterrorism operation against a Hezbollah-linked group. Additional arrests were made in the United Kingdom...
A Passover lesson for Jews who oppose Trump more than antisemitism
Is there such a thing as being too opposed to antisemitism? Can fighting those who call for the genocide of Jews be somehow bad for the Jews? Is it better to let bigotry flourish...