(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Taylor Force. Source: Facebook. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) began a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia on Wednesday with a moment of silence for Taylor Force, the 28-year-old West...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Some 100 Jews, including recognizable leaders, have penned a letter to business magnate Elon Musk telling him to “X out hate” on the social-media platform he now owns. “As Jewish leaders of all backgrounds, current and for...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) More than 40 years ago, when downtown Johannesburg was a vibrant civic center filled with shops, offices, hotels and a bustling inner-city life, many Jews lived and worked there. I remember setting up Chabad’s Central City...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) The Phoenix Center for Research and Field Studies—affiliated with the Islamic University of Gaza and which received a $90,000 grant from the U.S. State Department—has ties to two entities designed by the United States as t...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Among the voluminous commentaries on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War are claims that Israel missed a historic opportunity to have prevented the conflict by accepting Anwar Sadat’s 1971 peace offer. In truth, Sadat di...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) A group associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operating in Iran, China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates was sanctioned on Wednesday by the U.S. Treasury Department. Together, five entities and...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) The LGBTQ student group Rice PRIDE at Rice University in Houston announced that it has chosen to disassociate itself from Houston Hillel, the Jewish organization on campus. Rice PRIDE acknowledges that Houston Hillel has c...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Manouchehr Bibiyan, a pioneering Iranian-American Jewish entertainment producer and political activist died on Aug. 27 in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old. Bibiyan became Iran’s first and most successful modern pop-music r...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) In this week’s “In Focus,” Caroline discusses two seemingly disparate but deeply interconnected events: the leftist assault on Jews attempting to pray on Yom Kippur Eve in Tel Aviv and other places throughout Israel; and t...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber is defending the use of an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish book in a course titled “The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South.” Eisgruber, Princ...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Two Israelis sustained serious injuries while more than two dozen others were slightly hurt after a bus rolled over at the Eshtaol intersection on Highway 38 near Beit Shemesh on Wednesday afternoon, medical officials anno...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Explaining the lifestyles and religious practices of American Jews to Israelis (and vice versa) has its challenges. While many in the United States still seem to think of it as a 51st state, or, in recent years—thanks to t...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Wednesday evening the cancelation of a planned prayer service in Tel Aviv after organizers of a counterdemonstration said they were moving their mixed-gender...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) An Israeli delegation led by Tourism Minister Haim Katz received a warm, public welcome in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday during the opening session of a U.N. World Tourism Organization gathering. “There is a delegation here in...
(September 27, 2023 / JNS) The English word “holocaust” is borrowed from the Latin word holocaustum, used in the Latin translation of the Bible. This word is based in turn on a Greek word that means “burned whole” or “burnt offering.” In English, ho...