Daily Archives: October 17, 2024

Does it always rain on Sukkot, where you live? Here in South Africa, the farmers say as soon as the Jews put up their booths, the rains will come. Besides the sukkah itself, on this...

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) in New Orleans will cut the ribbon on its new Southern Jewish Family Research Center (The Center) on Nov. 7. It is the first major expansion...

Historical memory lies at the heart of most Jewish holiday commemorations. During Sukkot, for example, Jews daily welcome ushpizin—“guests” or ancestors, including the patriarchs of Judaism—into their sukkahs, which themselves are a remembrance of the...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a decorated retired Army officer. He was supportive of Israel’s foray into Lebanon in the beginning. It would have been hard for him not to be, as...

"Early this morning, Israeli authorities informed my national security team that a mission they conducted in Gaza likely killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. DNA tests have now confirmed that Sinwar is dead. This is...

“I think it’s a chance that won’t present itself again," Daniel Lifshitz, the grandson of hostage Oded Lifshitz, 84, told JNS on Thursday in reference to Hamas terrorist chief Yahya Sinwar's killing. IDF soldiers killed Sinwar in a...

"Evil has suffered a severe blow," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday night following the confirmation of Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar's death in a southern Gaza shootout. "The man who committed the...

Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed Hamas terror master Yahya Sinwar in a firefight in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the military confirmed in a press release on Thursday night. Sinwar "was eliminated after hiding...

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said during a Security Council on Wednesday that Israel has a “responsibility to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties” in the Gaza Strip, even if...