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Edmund Landau, Mathematician Hounded by Nazis

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Edmund Georg Hermann (Yehezkel) Landau was born on February 14, 1877 into the family of a successful Berlin Jewish gynecologist, Professor Leopold Landau. His mother Johanna came from the famous Jacobi banking house. Until the age...
Israel's President Isaac Herzog pray for the safe release of Israelis who have been held hostage in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Jan. 19, 2025. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Herzog gets a ‘wake-up’ call, but the rest of the left are sound asleep

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog is backing away from his previous support for Palestinian statehood, saying that the Hamas-led assault in his country on Oct. 7, 2023, changed his thinking. Speaking on Jan. 21 at the annual...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, March 5, 2018. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu is first foreign leader invited by Trump to White House, Israel says

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U.S. President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House on Feb. 4, the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Tuesday. In fact, Netanyahu is the first foreign leader Trump has...
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a UN Security Council meeting concerning the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at UN headquarters in New York City on Jan. 28, 2025. Photo by Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images.

Danon to UNSC: Israel’s UNRWA ban comes into force in 48 hours

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon informed the Security Council on Tuesday that Jerusalem intends to terminate all ties with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 48 hours, asserting that...
Gabriella Major, an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor, speaks at an American Jewish Committee event in New York City on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig.

‘Build a better world one good deed at a time,’ says Holocaust survivor, 81

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It was a stroke of luck that the cattle car in which Gabriella Major sat as a small child with her mother and grandmother in 1944 diverted to the Strasshof transit camp near Vienna,...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on July 26, 2024. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu reportedly planning to meet Trump at White House next week

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday. While Netanyahu's visit to the United States has not been finalized, the...
Knesset member Moshe Solomon (Religious Zionism Party) during a committee meeting at the Israeli parliament, Feb. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Allowing Jews to buy private Judea and Samaria lands will end ‘open racism,’ says...

Pending legislation abolishing restrictions on Jews buying privately-owned land in Judea and Samaria would correct a historic injustice, Religious Zionism Party lawmaker Moshe Solomon told JNS Tuesday. "The current situation is absurd," said the member...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

House reps reintroduce bipartisan Holocaust-education bill

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Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) led 61 of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in reintroducing the Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons (HEAL) Act to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday. The bill instructs...
Max Zakheim (No. 23) on the Yeshiva University basketball team. Photo by Adena Stevens (used with permission).

‘Red Rocket’ helps propel YU basketball forward

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Coming into the season, the Yeshiva University Maccabees (“Macs”) in New York City knew that with no dominant centers or power forwards, the team would have to rely heavily on shooting guard Zevi Samet. While...
Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip via the Rashid Street by the Mediterranean Sea as part of the ceasefire agreement in central Gaza, Jan. 27, 2025. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Trump is right about letting Palestinians leave Gaza

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President Donald Trump is often at his best when he discards conventional wisdom and what the experts say is the only solution to any given problem. That was clearly the case when, during a...