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Luggage is put on trucks to take immigrants from Iraq to a transit camp at Lod Airport on May 1, 1951. Credit: National Photo Collection, GPO.il

Beware distinguished professors rewriting history

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What are the reasons why 140,000 Jews living in the storied 2,600-year-old Babylonian community—the oldest Jewish diaspora—have dwindled to just three people? The vast majority of the community left between 1950 and 1951 after...
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Gal Gadot: Unity critical to victory

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The Jewish people will prevail over its enemies and overcome the rising tide of antisemitism worldwide, but only through unity, Israeli actress Gal Gadot said on Sunday. “I feel like there is life before October 7...

Israeli envoy in NY: West at risk of ‘radical Muslim occupation’

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Ofir Akunis was solidly entrenched in the Knesset, serving in his 15th year as a lawmaker. The popular Likud figure—formerly a party spokesman and adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu—had held a number of ministerial roles...

Israeli officials encourage ‘aliyah’ while affirming US Jewish communities strong

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Call it the story of the Oct. 8 Jew. This past Sunday at the Jerusalem Conference in New York, executives of Israel’s government and nonprofit immigration agencies were joined on stage by a high-ranking official...

Are we the Jews of the 1930s?

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As we sit comfortably in our American homes, enjoying the freedoms and opportunities afforded to us by this great nation, it is difficult to imagine that we, as Jews, could be facing a situation...

Resolve and optimism between Yom Hashoah and Israel’s national holidays

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When I was debating whether to join a command course in the army, my late grandmother Esther told me, “In Auschwitz, we didn’t volunteer. We always tried to hide in the back.” This advice was...

Herzog issues ‘urgent’ message of support for beleaguered Diaspora Jewry

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday extended an urgent message of support to Jewish communities around the world in light of the dramatic surge in antisemitism and following the attacks and intimidation against Jewish students on American campuses. “To our...

FM calls for ‘global advocacy front’ to fight hatred of Jews, Israel

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Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday proposed the formation of a unified global advocacy front to combat antisemitism and the vilification of Jews and Israelis worldwide. “We cannot stand idle and rely on others to...
Sid Rosenberg at the JNS studio in Jerusalem, January 2024. Photo by Josh Hasten.

New York radio talk-show host Sid Rosenberg visits Israel for first time

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Unapologetic and unfiltered, New York conservative radio talk show host Sid Rosenberg is in Israel this week, touring the country and broadcasting his four-hour top-rated morning show "Sid & Friends in the Morning" live...

This is not 1938

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The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim judgment on the South African government’s “genocide” charge against Israel. Even a political body appointed by the U.N. General Assembly whose members are mainly non-democratic...