Monthly Archives: August 2024

In the final analysis, Israel faces existential threats not because of multiplying enemy weapons or strategies, but on account of adversarial death fears. Among other things, this means that Islamist Iran and its assorted...

Twenty-five Jewish teens from around the world traveled through Poland and Israel this summer as part of a CTeen Heritage Quest designed to connect young Jews with their history and traditions. The group visited significant...

After 10 months of fighting, many ask why Hamas has not yet been destroyed and Israel’s war objectives have yet to be fully realized. At the beginning of the war, some in the defense establishment...

Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University lberes@purdue.edu Jorge Luis Borges, the late Argentine writer and philosopher, sometimes identified himself as a Jew. Though lacking any basis in Halacha, he still felt...

The Canadian government condemned the Saturday bombing outside the Beth Yaakov synagogue in the seaside resort town of La Grande-Motte in southern France. The attack “is a reminder that antisemitism is not a relic of the past—it...

U.S. President Joe Biden lingered on stage as Chicago’s United Center quickly emptied on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. It was past midnight in the Windy City, and the president, whose...

“We, the families of the hostages, would have wanted to see some calm in the region that would expedite the negotiations,” Ruby Chen, the father of American-Israeli IDF Sgt. Itay Chen, 19, told JNS on Sunday. “But...

The state-owned Bank of China operates a branch in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where Washington has assessed that China is committing genocide against the ethnic Uyghur population. Still, the major U.S. investment advisory firm MSCI...

B’nai B’rith International sent a letter last week to the leaders of top soccer organizations worldwide, voicing opposition to a campaign led by the Palestinian Football Association to urge FIFA to sanction the Israel Football Association. FIFA...

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, 61, has abandoned the tunnels and taken to cross-dressing as a woman to escape detection, Britain’s Daily Express reported on Monday, leading social-media wags to dub the mastermind behind the Oct. 7...