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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) On Feb. 2, John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary, shared a joke on his magazine’s podcast riffing on Hunter Biden’s laptop—what Miranda Devine has called the “Laptop from Hell.”
So, have you heard the one about the Jew wh...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Following initial media reports that Jews were missing in Turkey, Mendy Chitrik, a Chabad rabbi and chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, told the Jewish Chronicle that all Turkey’s Jewish community membe...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces dispatched a significant search-and-rescue group to earthquake-stricken southeastern Turkey on Monday.
“The minute we’ll land, we’ll go straight to work, as we’re used to doing,” Lt. Col. Richar...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) The Jewish Federations of North America and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee have launched fundraising campaigns to provide humanitarian aid to people in Turkey after the devastating earthquakes today.
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) If it looks and quacks like speech, don’t let that fool you. It may be a boycott.
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to hear Arkansas Times v. Waldrip, which hinges on a question that is slipperier than it sounds...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intervened to delay the demolition of an illegally constructed building in eastern Jerusalem due to American pressure, Channel 11 reported.
Netanyahu was also reportedly warned by securi...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) It has been almost 15 years to the day since Kosovo, a landlocked country of 1.95 million north of Greece, declared independence on Feb. 17, 2008. Its Jewish community numbers just 35 to 50 people, but its leadership rem...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Maureen Ash, 61, arrived in Tampa from her Chicago home in time for last Wednesday night’s Bruce Springsteen show. The longtime fan—called a Spring-Nut, as a nearly 50,000-strong Facebook, Twitter and Instagram fan commu...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday extended condolences to the victims of the massive earthquakes that killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria.
“On behalf of all citizens of Israel, I send condole...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Capt. Rabbi Joshua Gerstein, chaplain of the Israel Defense Forces Artillery Corps 282 Fire Brigade, is a man on a mission—both spiritual and national. It’s one to which he has dedicated his life.
Having immigrated to Is...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva hosted the Medical AI Roadmap Conference recently, bringing together Israel’s leading doctors, academics, scientists and entrepreneurs to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence (...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime sent Israel a “near unprecedented” appeal for aid following the severe earthquake that hit the country on Monday.
Israel received the request through Russia.
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, on Thursday during what Israel’s foreign ministry hailed as a “historic diplomatic visit”...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces has resumed its search for missing Artillery Corps soldier Guy Hever, who disappeared on the morning of Aug. 17, 1997, after leaving his base on the Golan Heights.
The investigation was renewed...
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(February 6, 2023 / JNS) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led a tree-planting ceremony on Monday to mark Tu Bishvat in the Neve Ya’akov neighborhood of Jerusalem, where a Palestinian terrorist killed seven people last month.
Netanyahu was joine...