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‘Operation Roaring Lion’ thwarted Iran’s plans for nuclear Holocaust, Netanyahu says on Yom Hashoah

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – “Operation Roaring Lion” against Iranian nuclear sites fulfilled the Jewish state’s promise to prevent a second Holocaust, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday night.

Had the Israeli and U.S. militaries failed to act, “the...

Dan Bilzerian wants to ‘kill Israelis’ and thinks Judaism is ‘terrible.’ Now he’s running for Congress.

(JTA) — Dan Bilzerian, the mega-influencer who’s spread conspiracy theories about Jews and said he wants to “kill Israelis,” is running for Congress.

Bilzerian registered this week to run in the Republican primary against the Jewish far-right firebrand Rep. Randy...

Democratic Party shelves three resolutions targeting Israel, AIPAC

(JNS.org) – The Democratic National Committee shelved three resolutions taking aim at Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at its spring meeting in New Orleans.

Two would have placed limits on aid to Israel and the third would have...

Jewish groups condemn Trump’s threat that a ‘whole civilization will die’ in Iran

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Jewish groups were among those criticizing President Donald Trump and accusing him of using genocidal rhetoric on Tuesday after Trump posted online that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not reopen the...

Seder under sirens: Israelis mark Passover in the shadow of war with Iran

By THEIA CHATELLE

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — The day before Yael Ben Cnaan was set to take over ownership of Bishvil Flowers, a corner flower shop located in the upscale Lev Hair neighborhood, an Iranian cluster munition landed on...

Israeli-American soldier Moshe Katz, killed in Lebanon rocket strike, laid to rest on Mt. Herzl

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Hundreds gathered on Sunday night at Israel’s military cemetery on Mt. Herzl for the funeral of Moshe Yitzchak Hacohen Katz, an American-born Israeli soldier who was killed by a rocket strike on Saturday in southern...

Undeterred by war, North American Jews continue to immigrate to Israel

By PETER EPHROSS

(JTA) — Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite is true. 

“My worry was, how could I get there as fast...

John Menszer’s New Americans Social Club exhibit opens at MSJE

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

With a Hasselblad camera and a Sony Walkman Professional cassette deck, John Menszer has been cataloguing the history of the members of the New Americans Social Club for more than three decades. Now,...

Smaller synagogues get security boost as DHS shutdown stalls federal funding

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — When an attacker drove into Temple Israel in suburban Detroit last week, the synagogue’s security guards were ready to engage him. Soon after, the attacker was dead — with no...

Trump’s counterterrorism director resigns over Iran, blasting ‘war manufactured by Israel’

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center resigned on Tuesday, citing his objection to the Iran war and claiming that Israel tricked the United States into entering.

“I cannot in good conscience support the...