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The IDF Rabbinate has produced a specially designed menorah in 2024, delivering them to soldiers in active combat zones. Credit: IDF.

Tactical menorahs: A new first for the IDF Rabbinate

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Under the shadow of the war in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria, the Israel Defense Forces are preparing for the holiday of Chanukah. In the past few weeks, the IDF Rabbinate worked to distribute...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem. Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Whoever harms Israel will pay a heavy price,’ Netanyahu says

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Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists "are learning—and will learn the hard way—that whoever harms Israel will pay a very heavy price for it," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday after the Israeli Air Force...
Aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, Jan. 29, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Israel calls HRW ‘genocide’ report a ‘blood libel’

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Israel's Foreign Ministry on Thursday slammed as a "blood libel" a report by Human Rights Watch in which the NGO accuses the Jewish state of genocide. The report alleges that Israel did this by depriving Palestinians in...
Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Israeli minister slams Erdogan, endorses Kurdish autonomy

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Israeli cabinet minister Amichai Chikli on Wednesday endorsed an independent Kurdish entity, which he juxtaposed with Syrian jihadist rebels supported by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Kurdistan must be granted independence, while Erdogan should be...

IDF hits Houthi targets in Yemen after missile fired at central Israel

The Israeli Air Force struck Houthi targets in Yemen overnight Wednesday, after intercepting a missile over central Israel fired by the Iranian-backed terror group. An elementary school in the Ramat Efal neighborhood of Ramat Gan,...
Canadian flag. ElasticComputeFarm/Pixabay.

The origins of antisemitism in Canada and why it has spiked

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For many long years, there were no Jews in senior leadership roles in the Canadian government, save for Louis Rasminsky, who was appointed the governor of the Bank of Canada in the 1950s. That changed...
FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: ajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump transition team reportedly considering Moskowitz to lead FEMA

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) is being considered for the position of administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency within the incoming Trump administration, two sources told CNN on Monday. A third unnamed source near to the Trump transition team...
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After Assad: Recalibrating risks of an Israel-Iran nuclear war

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Special to Israel National News At first glance, the fall of Syria’s Assad dictatorship was net-gainful for Israel. Nonetheless, Iran’s military nuclearization continues to accelerate, and the Islamic leadership in Tehran has no credible reason...
Chanukah menorah. Credit: Saildancer/Pixabay.

Progressives ‘celebrating’ Chanukah

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This year’s first Chanukah candle will be lit on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 25, in a remarkable ecumenical link-up of Christmas festivities and the Jewish celebration of candles and latkes, sufganiyot and the singing of...

The Holiness of Sex: Leonard Cohen’s Biblical Theology

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On hearing that I had recently written a book about Leonard Cohen, someone asked me why I thought Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature rather than Cohen. Not being a Nobel prize adjudicator...