Daily Archives: January 31, 2026
Will South America’s right-wing, capitalist shift last?
For over a decade, the political map of South America was colored a deep, revolutionary red. The so-called “Pink Tide” of the early 2000s promised reduced social gaps, the eradication of poverty, and a...
‘Arab Lives Matter’: thousands of Arabs and Jews rally in Tel Aviv against crime...
Thousands of people, Arabs and Jews, marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest violence and crime in Arab communities, calling for an end to killings and what they described as years of...
Troubled driver’s mom begs he receive protective custody after shocking NYC synagogue crash
The desperate mom of the troubled New Jersey man who allegedly rammed his car into an iconic Brooklyn synagogue begged for him to be placed in protective custody Friday as he was sent to...
Driver rams car repeatedly into doors of NYC Jewish site, suspect detained
A driver was taken into custody on Wednesday night after police say the individual intentionally and repeatedly rammed a vehicle into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York City, damaging some of the...
A language course is reviving Moroccan Jewish culture and bridging Middle East divide
Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century. Home to great minds...
Stop chasing after the Saudis to join the Abraham Accords
Israeli diplomats like to speak of the difference between cold and hostile public comments toward the Jewish state uttered by their Arab and Muslim counterparts and warmer private ones. However, the reason—with the possible...
CENTCOM warns Iran to avoid ‘escalatory behavior’ during naval drill
U.S. Central Command is urging the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to conduct a scheduled naval exercise safely and avoid “escalatory behavior at sea.”
On Thursday, Iran announced that the IRGC would be “conducting a two-day...
‘Israel saved my life basically twice,’ bobsleigh olympian for Jewish state says
“There was a needle in my arm,” Edelman told JNS. “I was looking at my phone to distract myself, because I don’t do very well with needles, and the little message indicator kind of...
Smashed by ISIS, a 2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem
For millennia, hundreds of vivid bas-reliefs adorned the walls of the Nineveh palace of the legendary eighth-century BCE Assyrian king Sennacherib, depicting daring conquests richly described in Assyrian sources and the Hebrew Bible.
In 2016,...