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ISIS-influenced terrorists planning Jerusalem attacks arrested
Israeli security forces last month arrested two Palestinians planning Islamic State-inspired terror attacks in Jerusalem, the Israel Police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) cleared for publication on Thursday morning.
The suspects, both in their...
‘We will always act according to the Israeli interest,’ Smotrich tells Blinken
The Israeli government "greatly appreciates" American support for the Jewish state's war effort but will always put the interests of its citizens first, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stressed this week as he welcomed...
Genocide case: Should Israel participate in ‘kangaroo court’?
While legal observers tell JNS that the Genocide case brought against Israel is a travesty, they split on whether Israel should defend itself at the hearings in The Hague.
The hearings at the International Court of...
Why should Israel be a “normal” country?
David Grün (David Ben-Gurion) emigrated to Palestine in 1906, at that time controlled by the Ottomans, to become an agricultural worker, putting into practice the philosophy that would inspire Zionists for the next four...
Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is about Michigan
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East for yet another round of meetings. The point of it is, as with his previous trips since Hamas launched a war against Israel on...
‘Explosion’ of conspiracy theories on social media about ‘tunnels’ at Chabad
The account Frum TikTok was one of many to post footage of a riot at a synagogue that is part of the world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Police were called after “young agitators,” as Chabad put it,...
Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film
A new drama will feature two acclaimed actors in a film exploring whether madness or malice drove the Third Reich’s reign of terror.
In “Nuremberg,” Oscar-award winner Russell Crowe will play Nazi propagandist Hermann Göring, opposite Oscar-winner...
Netanyahu: ‘Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza’
Israel does not intend to occupy Gaza permanently nor to displace its civilian population, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.
"Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
A Klezmer Adventure in old Bessarabia
Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure by Yale Strom, with illustrations by Emil Singer-Fuer and translations to Yiddish by Nikolaj Olniansky; Hoor, Sweden: Olniansky Tekst Farlag publisher © 2023; ISBN 9789198-721980; 44 pages in English;...