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Hamas terrorist who kidnapped four on Oct. 7 eliminated in Gaza strike

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – The Israel Defense Forces has eliminated a Hamas terrorist responsible for abducting four Israeli civilians during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the military said on Tuesday.

Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan, a deputy commander of a Hamas...

‘Feel personally attacked as a New Yorker and as a Jew,’ attendee says of Mamdani skipping Israel parade

By REBECCA SZLECHTER

(JNS.org)  – Tens of thousands of people marched to support the Jewish state in the annual Israel Day on Fifth Parade in Manhattan on Sunday.

Rabbi Mark Landsman, principal of Yeshiva of Central Queens, told JNS that the...

Israel-Lebanon talks set to proceed in U.S. Friday despite renewed violence

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — Israeli and Lebanese military officials are set to meet for talks at the Pentagon on Friday aimed at resolving their decades-long conflict. The new meeting comes as fighting increasingly shakes what’s left of a...

U.S. launches attacks on Iran as negotiations over a peace deal drag out

By KELLY HARTOG

(JTA) — The United States announced it had launched defensive strikes on Monday in Southern Iran, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats it believed were placing mines.

The move threatens to derail an already fragile ceasefire between...

A museum exhibit explores the Jewish fascination with the occult

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — In a recent speech on nutrition, the nation’s top health official offered a perhaps surprising explanation for what is ailing Americans. 

“We’re engaged right now in spiritual warfare and … the malevolent forces want to...

Children’s book of ‘The Tenth Man’ tells true story of Congregation Anshe Sfard

By ALAN SMASON

Artie Bennett knew a good story when he heard one. But this story was one he knew intimately as the protagonist – the so-called “tenth man” – was his wife Leah’s first cousin, Alex Brown.

The children’s...

Gaza and Israel go unmentioned in Democrats’ 2024 election autopsy report

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(JTA) — Gaza and Israel go unmentioned in the Democrats’ 190-page autopsy of Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential election loss that the Democratic National Committee released to CNN on Thursday.

Critics of the Biden administration’s support for Israel...

Netanyahu hails strike killing Hamas ‘chief murderer’

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israeli forces had targeted and killed the head of Hamas’s “military wing” Izz al-Din al-Haddad, calling him the “chief murderer” and a key figure behind the Oct. 7,...

From Rutgers speaker to Kristof column, disputed dog rape claim against Israel goes mainstream

By PHILISSA CRAMER and GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A week after a university commencement speaker was canceled because of a tweet claiming that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners, the allegation leapt into the pages of The New York...

Israeli report on ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence seeks to shift debate from denial to accountability

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — A sweeping new Israeli report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks and against hostages in Gaza concludes that the crimes formed part of a deliberate strategy. It also lays out a...