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Senior Hamas members Khalil al-Hayya (left) and Rawhi Mushtaha stand outside the VIP hall at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on March 15, 2021. Photo by Said Kkatib/AFP via Getty Images.

IDF confirms killing de facto Hamas PM in Gaza strike

Rawhi Mushtaha was targeted three months ago along with senior Hamas terrorists Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Odeh.

Hashem Safieddine, head of the Hezbollah Executive Council, attends a rally in Khiam, Southern Lebanon, to mark the 11th anniversary of the end of the Second Lebanon War with Israel. Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images.

IAF strike in Beirut targets possible Nasrallah successor

Hashem Safieddine's fate is not yet clear.

Aziz Salha, one of the participants in the 2000 lynching in Ramallah of two IDF reservists, holds up his blood-stained hands inside the Palestinian Authority's el-Bireh police station. Credit: Palestinian Media Watch.

IDF kills Palestinian who lynched soldiers near Ramallah in 2000

Biden opposes Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites

Andrew Bernard

IDF kills Hamas commander in Samaria’s Tulkarem

Fawzia Amin Sido at the Kerem Shalom Crossing after being rescued from Gaza by the Israeli military. Credit: IDF.

IDF rescues Yazidi woman enslaved by ISIS in Iraq and sold to Gazan

Caroline B. Glick

The secret of Netanyahu’s unacknowledged and historic popularity

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Police probing Iran link to attacks on Israeli missions in Sweden, Denmark

16 hours ago

IDF kills Hamas commander in Samaria’s Tulkarem

17 hours ago

IAF strike in Beirut targets possible Nasrallah successor

18 hours ago

IDF kills Palestinian who lynched soldiers near Ramallah in 2000

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IDF rescues Yazidi woman enslaved by ISIS in Iraq and sold to Gazan

19 hours ago

IDF confirms killing de facto Hamas PM in Gaza strike

October 2, 2024, 15:52

Israel declares Guterres persona non grata on Rosh Hashanah eve

Mike Wagenheim

October 2, 2024, 15:00

Biden opposes Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites

Andrew Bernard

October 2, 2024, 14:45

For first High Holidays after Oct. 7, rabbis weigh very weighty sermons

Alan Zeitlin

October 2, 2024, 14:24

Iran and Israel lead off vice-presidential debate

Andrew Bernard

Police probing Iran link to attacks on Israeli missions in Sweden, Denmark

Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participate in a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Vice-presidential debate leads off with Iran, Israel

Andrew Bernard

high holidays

Jewish men from Germany blow the shofar near the Israeli border with Lebanon on Sept. 23, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Get out your crystal ball! Take the 5785 Jewish pundit quiz

Beekeepers and second-generation honey manufacturers are getting the last honey and almonds gift package orders ready, two days ahead of the Jewish New Year. Moshav Givat Yoav, Golan Heights on Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

This year, Israeli honey is made of ‘blood, sweat and tears’

Canaan Lidor

A symbolic Shabbat table, set up by families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, at “Hostage Square” outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Oct. 20, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

As High Holidays approach, hostages will be ‘absent presence’ at US shuls

Sarah Ogince

Spices in Iran. Credit: maxos_dim/Pixabay.

A sweet 5785 to a somber Jewish people

Ethel G. Hofman

Israeli prime minister on New Year’s eve: ‘Days of historic achievements’

JNS Staff

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

New year, new light, new life

U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a phone call with Quint leaders Emmanuel Macron of France, Giorgia Meloni of Italy, Olaf Scholz of Germany and Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom on Oct. 9, 2023, in the Treaty Room of the White House. Credit: Adam Schultz/Official White House Photo.

President cancels Rosh Hashanah call with US Jewish community

31,000 new immigrants moved to Israel since last Rosh Hashanah

Etgar Lefkovits

Interior of a synagogue. Credit: Cottonbro Studio/Pexels.

For first High Holidays after Oct. 7, rabbis weigh very weighty sermons

Alan Zeitlin

“The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook.” Credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

A sweet taste of old meets new this Rosh Hashanah

Eliot Penn

America needs to hear this year’s call of the shofar

Met Council to distribute nearly $5m in food during High Holiday season

Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander

Rosh Hashanah: Still in the Field

Round challah for the Jewish High Holidays. Credit: Melissa Highton via Wikimedia Commons.

Rabbi Vanessa Harper

Braiding in the New Year

An item from the Kol Shofar workshop, owned by shofar specialist Shimon Keinan, in Givat Yoav in the southern Golan Heights, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Rosh Hashanah 2024 guide

The Passover prayer service held in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, April 11, 2023. Credit: Rosh Yehudi.

Tel Aviv court OKs city ban on public sex-separated prayer

Canaan Lidor

Jews pray in a synagogue in Uman, Ukraine, before the start of Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 16, 2012. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

Jewish pilgrims to Uman not allowed to connect in Moldova

Etgar Lefkovits

Pomegranate. Credit: Pixabay.

Rosh Hashanah poster contest winners announced

US & CANADA NEWS

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, briefs reporters ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Oct. 2, 2024. Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo.

Israel declares Guterres persona non grata on Rosh Hashanah eve

Mike Wagenheim

Attendees sing “Hativkah” at a memorial marking the anniversary of the the Oct. 7 terrorists attack in Israel, held at Yeshiva University's Washington Heights campus in New York City on Sept. 30, 2024. Credit: Yeshiva University.

‘Horrific event is a part of our identity’: Oct. 7 anniversary marked at Yeshiva

Vita Fellig

John Spencer. Credit: Courtesy.

Ariel Kahana

Urban-warfare expert: Hezbollah suffered catastrophic damage

Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Lebanon, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Survey: Strong US backing for Israeli military action against Iranian proxies

JNS Staff

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Md.) speaks to reporters in the Senate Subway during a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2024. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

Jewish leaders in Virginia oppose Kaine’s call to stop weapon transfers to Israel

Exterior of the U.S. State Department's Harry S. Truman Building in May 2024. Credit: Linda D. Epstein/U.S. State Department.

On same day Iran fires 200 ballistic missiles at Jewish state, US sanctions Israelis

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Oct. 1, 2024. Credit: Oliver Contreras/White House.

US helped shoot down Iranian missiles

Andrew Bernard

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council annual summit in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19, 2024. Credit: Guy Sidi/Israeli-American Council.

Trump on Biden’s handling of Iran missile attack: ‘No one is in charge’

The Afghan Liturgical Quire, which has been dated to the eighth century, on view in the exhibit "Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest Hebrew Book" at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29, 2024. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

‘Most exciting find in a millennium’: Oldest Hebrew book goes on display in Washington at Museum of the Bible

The eighth-century Afghan Liturgical Quire “pushes the history of the Jewish book back approximately 200 years,” the scholar Gary Rendsburg told JNS.

Menachem Wecker

School classroom. Credit: WokandPix/Pixabay.

Pro bono legal helpline launched for reporting incidents of antisemitism at K-12 schools

An Israeli flag in the Jordan Valley, near the community of Ma'ale Efraim, Jan. 2, 2014. Photo by Uri Lenz/Flash90.

Jewish, pro-Israel groups denounce Iranian attack

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris receive a briefing on a potential attack on Israel by Iran, Oct. 1, 2024. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

Biden: Response to Iranian attack ‘remains to be seen’

Andrew Bernard

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the Texas State Capitol on June 8, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images.

Texas to mark Oct. 7 anniversary with moment of silence, lowered flags

Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman, moderates a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, on June 19, 2023, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

State Department denies receiving forewarning of Iranian attack on Israel

Andrew Bernard

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general, briefs reporters at U.N. headquarters on Oct. 9, 2023. Credit: Paulo Filgueiras/U.N. Photo.

UNRWA can’t fully vet staff for Hamas ties, because it lacks police, intelligence unit, United Nations says

Mike Wagenheim

Samantha Power, the USAID administrator, meets with Israeli authorities and global humanitarian partners at Israel's Port of Ashdod, a key route for humanitarian aid for Gaza, on July 11, 2024. Credit: U.S. Agency for International Development.

US announces $336 million in aid to Palestinian Arabs

INSIDE ISRAEL

An aerial-defense battery in northern Israel fires interceptors at missiles fired from Iran on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90.

Iran fires 180-plus missiles at Israel

Netanyahu: ‘Iran made a big mistake … and it will pay for it’

Seven killed in Jaffa terror shooting

The site of the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sept. 29, 2024. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.

Canaan Lidor

Does Hezbollah’s disarray leave Iran’s nuke sites vulnerable?

Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter at the Ben Gurion airport as a siren alert is sounded in Tel Aviv, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Dor Pazuelo/Flash90.

Israel’s response to Iranian attack will be ‘precise and surprising’

Joshua Marks

Austin to Gallant: US ‘well-postured’ to defend allies in Middle East

David Isaac

Thousands gather during "March For Israel" at the National Mall on Nov. 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images.

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Yaakov Lappin

Tragedy and resilience: The communities of Israel’s western Negev

The aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7 invasion of Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel, April 7, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

‘We survived, but we can’t heal until this ends’

Amelie Botbol

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ministers and Knesset members attend a discussion and vote on the inclusion of Knesset member Gideon Sa'ar as a minister in the government at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel Kasnett

Netanyahu rebounds after political and military successes

Luxury villas under construction in Samaria, exclusively reserved for Palestinians who have spent at least five years in Israeli prisons for terrorism-related offences. Credit: Josh Hasten.

Construction of PA Samaria ‘terror neighborhood’ continues unabated

Josh Hasten

Jews pray for forgiveness ahead of Rosh Hashanah at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sept. 20, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Jewish population hits 15.8 million globally

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on Sept. 28, 2024. Photo by Itai Ron/Flash90.

2024 broke 75-year-old heat record in Israel

Israel Defense Forces widow Revital Shamir, her 4-year-old son and newborn baby girl sit underneath a painting of her late husband, Maj. Mordechai Shamir, at their home in Yair's Farm in Samaria, Feb. 21, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Avigayil and Ariel top names for Israeli Jewish babies in 5784

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

A televised address to the public on “Channel 12” news by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem regarding the events of the past few days concerning Hezbollah, the assassination of its senior leader Hassan Nasrallah and the situation on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, Sept. 28, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Jonathan S. Tobin

By seeking victory, Israel exposed Washington’s false assumptions

‘Settler colonialist’ myth fuels campus antisemitism

“Think Twice” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Adam Kirsch, Ep. 151

Jonathan S. Tobin

Jewish men from Germany blow the shofar near the Israeli border with Lebanon on Sept. 23, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Jonathan S. Tobin

Get out your crystal ball! Take the 5785 Jewish pundit quiz

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) greets Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Iran, October 2019. Credit: Iran News Agency.

JNS poll: Israeli public believes now is the time to attack Iran’s nuclear installations

Caroline B. Glick

View of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, on July 15, 2024. Photo by Oren Cohen/Flash90.

JNS poll: Majority of Israelis back Netanyahu on Philadelphi, oppose protests

Caroline B. Glick

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris react while high school senior and youth leader DuWayne Portis Jr. delivers remarks at a Black History Month reception on Feb. 27, 2023 in the East Room of the White House. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

JNS poll: Israelis willing to defy US to defend national interests

Caroline B. Glick

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo.

JNS poll: 84% of Israelis say ICC a political body

Caroline B. Glick

U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Vice President Kamala Harris along the West Colonnade of the White House to the Oval Office on May 26, 2023. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

JNS poll: Israelis like Kamala Harris less than they liked Joe Biden

Caroline B. Glick

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ON CAMPUS

75 college leaders at DC summit examine how to tackle campus hate

The main entrance of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Credit: Katie Haugland Bowen/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Rice University: Title VI investigation ‘unrelated to Israel-Hamas war’

David Swindle

University campus. Credit: Islandworks/Pixabay.

Not enough federal investigators to probe Jew-hatred on campus

Move-in day for the 2024-25 academic year at Yeshiva University's Wilf campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Credit: Yeshiva University.

Yeshiva University touts ‘incredible growth’ as it rises slightly in ‘US News’ rankings

David Swindle

“Free Palestine” tent encampment at Harvard University, organized in April-May 2024 in support of Palestinians and the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, May 2, 2024. Credit: Dariusz Jemielniak via Wikimedia Commons.

New items Harvard submitted to House panel show ‘abysmal follow-through’ on Jew-hatred

Hochul directs CUNY to use IHRA antisemitism definition to assess bias claims

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, during a hearing about antisemitism on campus with the presidents of Harvard, Penn and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 5, 2023. Credit: House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Congressional education panel finds ‘pervasive’ Jew-hatred in unions

SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the plenum hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Caroline B. Glick

The secret of Netanyahu’s unacknowledged popularity

Israelis visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in southern Israel on Sept. 24, 2024. Photo by Israel Hadari/Flash90.

Melanie Phillips

Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session in New York City on Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: Laura Jarriel/U.N. Photo.

Ruthie Blum

The UN chief’s foul language

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world

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Rabbi Yossy Goldman

New year, new light, new life

Rabbi Menachem Schmidt

Effective steps for confronting campus antisemitism

Andrew D. Lappin

To the pondering Jew

Stephen M. Flatow

Penalize ‘settlers,’ but let the Palestinian Authority get away from responsibilities

Henry Abramson

Three strategies for Jewish resilience after Oct. 7

Masha Gabriel

Spain at a crossroads: Will Madrid rally for terrorism or defend democracy?

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

Israel is the land of the Jewish people

Sarah N. Stern

The tides are turning

Hershel Morgenstern

‘We will get through this’

Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander

Rosh Hashanah: Still in the Field

A.J. Caschetta

The Palestinianization of American academia

Gregg Roman

The weaponization of antisemitism on US campuses

“The New York Times” building in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

featured column

Mitchell Bard

The media race for debasement

Reporters would never think to ask whether the United States should stop attacking ISIS or Al-Qaeda because it encourages more people to become terrorists.

Progressive members of the Jewish community in Brooklyn, N.Y., protest against Israel in the Prospect Park neighborhood of the borough on May 21, 2021. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images.

Alyza D. Lewin

The ethics of war and peace

The war we are fighting against those who deny Jewish identity and erase Jewish history is increasing in intensity.

Round challah for the Jewish High Holidays. Credit: Melissa Highton via Wikimedia Commons.

Rabbi Vanessa Harper

Braiding in the New Year

Using dough to shape our own intentions and interpretations of the themes of this season into a singular challah design brings all of that creative potential into tangible reality.

Eliot Penn

America needs to hear this year’s call of the shofar

Jerold S. Auerbach

Occupied or liberated?

Lauri B. Regan

Israel unchained

Moshe Phillips

Hassan Nasrallah and the tone-deaf American Jewish left

Fiamma Nirenstein

The Jewish people perform another miracle

Bob Zeidman

Israel, one year later

Yoram Ettinger

Israel’s war on Hezbollah enhances US security

Dumisani Washington

Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Black4Palestine deception

Phyllis Chesler

‘Pogrom(s)’ stands out in a flurry of Oct. 7 documentaries

Steve Rosenberg

The absurdity of calls for a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel

featured column

Ben Cohen

When it comes to Iran’s rulers, there can be no dialogue

Natalie Sanandaji

Honoring Mahsa Amini and the Iranian people’s fight for dignity

WORLD

The IDF downs ballistic missiles fired from Iran at Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Iran’s attack on Israel widely condemned

David Isaac

Keir Starmer, the U.K. prime minister, meets with hostage families at 10 Downing Street ahead of the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Sept. 30, 2024. Credit: Lauren Hurley/No. 10 Downing Street.

‘Impossible not to be moved by your pain,” Starmer tells families of hostages in Gaza

A new report on ‘BBC’ coverage of the Israel-Hamas war

Hadar Sela

A huge crowd of anti-Israel protesters hold flags and pictures of Hassan Nasrallah, late leader of the Hezbollah terror group, and a Hezbollah flag in Sydney on Sept. 29, 2024. Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images.

Australian teen charged with waving Hezbollah flag at Sydney rally

Police said anti-Israel rallies will not be allowed on the anniversary of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre.

Pro-Palestinian protesters in Dublin, May 2021. Source: Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign/Twitter.

Irish Holocaust-themed cartoon on Israel prompts uproar

Canaan Lidor

A police cordon is i front of an apartment building in Essen, western Germany, on Sept. 29, 2024, the day after a fire broke out at the building. A 41-year-old Syrian suspect has been arrested after fires broke out at two apartment blocks and a van was rammed into shops in the western Germany city of Essen, police said on Sept. 29. Photo by Sascha Schuermann/AFP via Getty Images.

Syrian national injures 31 in Germany rampage

Pope: Countries must not go ‘over the top’ when conducting warfare

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Parts of an Iranian missile that fell near the Beit El settlement in Ramallah in the West Bank on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by Flash90.

Iran attacks Israel following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah

Meanwhile, Hezbollah, part of the Tehran’s extensive terror network, continues to spread violence and fear on behalf of its sponsor.

The Focus Project

A woman visits the site of the Nova Festival. Photo by Ziv Coren for Mekimi.

Mekimi: A global platform for Oct. 7 remembrances launches

Mekimi launches to provide a platform with resources to commemorate Oct. 7, offering tools for global remembrance and healing.

A screening and discussion of “Screams Before Silence,” co-hosted by the Seed the Dream Foundation and Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, was shown one week before that first-year marker of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, Sept. 26, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

‘Screams Before Silence’ screening and discussion grapple with violence against women on Oct. 7

“It is essential that the stories of survivors and victims are heard and believed,” said Marcy Gringlas, co-founder and president of Seed the Dream Foundation.

Seed the Dream Foundation

The Z3 Project celebrates 10 years. Credit: Courtesy.

The Z3 Project celebrates 10 years of open dialogue

The Z3 Project, a global initiative of the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Calif., is celebrating a decade of bringing Jews together with major expansions to come.

Unloading pallets of food items that will be sent across Ukraine to Jewish communities large and small in advance of Rosh Hashanah, which starts the evening of Oct. 2, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Relief Network Ukraine.

Ukraine’s war-weary Jews faces third New Year under siege

“People are literally living from hand to mouth," says Rabbi Shalom Gottlieb of Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

Jewish Relief Network Ukraine

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