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United States strikes dozens of IRGC sites in ‘powerful response’ to Iranian attacks

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – The U.S. military launched what it described as a “heavy wave of strikes” against Iranian targets on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Washington would be “hitting them hard” in response to Tehran’s recent...

Bret Stephens, a stalwart Israel defender, calls out ‘Jewish terrorists’ in West Bank 

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take direct aim at the country’s handling of settler violence...

2025 was deadliest year for Jews in decades, antisemitism watchdogs in 7 countries conclude

By KELLY HARTOG

(JTA) — A coalition of leading Jewish organizations from seven countries has released a report confirming that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic violence in the Jewish Diaspora in more than three decades.

More than 20...

Locals line up to show support at Toronto bagel shops hit with gunfire, vandalism

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — Locals lined up outside a Toronto bagel shop on Monday in a show of support after attacks on two outposts of the Jewish-owned chain, adding to a string of incidents facing Jewish businesses in...

US ‘Locked and loaded’ for ‘higher level’ attacks on Iran, Trump says

 By ANDREW BERNARD   (JNS.org)  – U.S. President Donald Trump said that he was ready to launch a “higher level” of attacks against Iran on Friday, as the two countries continue negotiations.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said...

Austrian town turns Hitler’s birthplace into a police station to keep neo-Nazis at bay

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) — How do you stop neo-Nazis from meeting up at Adolf Hitler’s birthplace? Station officers there around the clock, of course.

That is just what the small town of Braunau in Austria has done — but the...

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer mounts Jewish apology tour in Ukraine, meeting with Zelensky and rabbi

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — MAGA firebrand Laura Loomer, who is warring with anti-Israel figures on the right, is invoking her Judaism as she pulls an about-face on a former hobbyhorse of hers: Ukraine.

Loomer interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

US strikes Iran for eighth straight night after deadly attack on troops

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – The U.S. military struck Iranian targets on Saturday for an eighth consecutive night, hours after U.S. Central Command said the Islamic Republic had killed two U.S. service members in Jordan the previous day.

Iranian coastal surveillance...

Colombia and Slovenia recently recognized a Palestinian state. Now they’re moving their embassies to Jerusalem.

By LARRY LUXNER

(JTA) — JERUSALEM — Colombia, the world’s second most populous Spanish-speaking nation after Mexico, has little in common with landlocked Slovenia, the second-smallest of the six republics that once comprised Yugoslavia.

But when it comes to their...

UK lawmakers press government on why West Bank imports haven’t yet been banned

By KELLY HARTOG

(JTA) — British lawmakers from across the political spectrum are pressing the government to ban imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, saying that explanations for why such a ban has not yet been imposed were...