(June 5, 2023 / JNS) A few hours before the “Celebrate Israel Parade” began on Sunday, about 350 people gathered for the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty’s annual legislative breakfast at the Yale Club in Midtown Manhattan. The theme of the ev...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly injured on Monday night when a car struck him in Palestinian-controlled Huwara, near Nablus in Samaria. The driver of the vehicle reportedly fled the scene. The military did not immed...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken addressed the 2023 American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Summit (AIPAC) at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., saying, “the depth and breadth” of the alliance between the U.S....
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) The 64-year-old founded the National Jewish Assembly, a “grassroots” community leadership body, last year after resigning as a senior vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He said at the time that the latter,...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Some 30 Jews and Christians gathered across the street from a Target store in Midtown Miami on June 1 to protest the retail corporation’s LGBTQ Pride merchandise for children. There were also counterprotesters and a police prese...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) When Theodor Herzl began to advocate for the reestablishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, many Jews agreed with his ideology but considered his idea impractical. The Ottoman Empire ruled Palestine, which was a desola...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Jews are likelier than Catholics and Protestants both to attend religious services in-person only and to attend no services (neither online nor in-person), according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Of 11,377 respondents sur...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Much has taken place since Yael Eckstein became president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 2019 after the passing of her father Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who founded and headed the organization in...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) I understand why universities boast about their most famous graduates. But should a university boast about a graduate who has claimed that members of U.S. Congress are “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby?” Brandeis Universi...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Following Iran—a country that executes its citizens for “blasphemous” social-media posts—gaining leadership over a U.N. forum based on promoting human rights through technology, the Islamic regime in Tehran has now gained anothe...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone on Sunday night with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose “insight and contribution to humanity” the premier holds in “high esteem.” “We are at the dawn of a new era for...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) In the shadow of tensions stemming from May’s Gaza war (“Operation Shield and Arrow”), senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials convened in Cairo on Sunday for the first official meeting since the military campaign....
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Publicity photo of singer/actor Ed Ames from the NBC television program “Daniel Boone.” Credit: Wikipedia. Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a l...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) Elias Saratovsky. Credit: Courtesy of Birthright Israel Foundation. Elias Saratovsky, who participated in Birthright’s inaugural trip to Israel in 1999-2000, has been named the new president and CEO of the Birthright Israel Foun...
(June 5, 2023 / JNS) For the first time in Israel, the Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah will admit to its Labor and Delivery Ward gay couples and single men who arrive with surrogates, Israel Hayom reported on Monday. In th...