friends
Nassau County cemented its relationship with Israel last week, signing an economic and cultural agreement with the Shomron, an area in the northern part of the territory commonly referred to as the …
What do we know. What don’t we know.
Over the past week the media and various communities have been in an uproar over the unfortunate death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Al Jazeera reporter, and clashes at her funeral a couple of days …
friends and foes
Six North Shore Long Island community newspapers, including the Greak Neck News, tore into Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s economic, cultural and friendship pact with the Shomron, and criticized …
anti-semitism
The Nassau County executive convened a 27-member committee on Tuesday tasked with finding ways to combat the growing scourge of Jew hatred that’s not spared Long Island …
travel
Remnants of an ancient city, mysterious inscriptions, caves and catacombs, gorgeous scenery — all are to be found in Bet She’arim, one of Israel’s most impressive …
schools
The new Mercaz Academy in Plainview has announced the appointment of. Karen Leeper as assistant principal for general studies. She will work …
opinion
When the San Diego Community College District announced that Alice Walker would be the keynote speaker for the new chancellor’s installation, immediate protests followed. Various Jewish …
on campus
We hear a lot about Jewish college students who have become pro-Palestinian. We know about polls showing that younger American Jews are much less connected …
opinion
A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead last week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin. Western …
opinion
In his Israel Apartheid Week address at Duke University a few weeks ago, radical Palestinian poet Mohammed el-Kurd advocated “Palestinian liberation,” telling his cheering …
opinion
I am a Persian Jew who has lived all of my life in America. Yet at the same time, Israel is my home. I get the chills every time I sing “Hatikvah” because even though I live …
schools
Blue and white were the colors of choice at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park on May 5, Yom Ha’atzmaut. At a schoolwide Tefillah Chagigit in the morning, Dr. Mila …
schools
antisemitism
This week in Torah
A best-selling book in 2014 was French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” a dense 700-page-long treatise on economic theory backed by massive …
Jonathan Tobin
The following is adapted from the keynote speech delivered by JNS Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Tobin at a gala celebrating the 40th anniversary of CAMERA — the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East …
Ben Cohen
It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline …
More Opinion
Symbols resonate. It is nearly impossible to calculate the regnant hold that symbols have over one’s identity, one’s core beliefs, one’s religion, one’s affiliation with a …
Food
As I write this on the evening of Mother’s Day, I think about my own mother who, to be honest, was not a very good cook. She had absolutely no interest in cooking or baking. She was a …
Travel
Remnants of an ancient city, mysterious inscriptions, caves and catacombs, gorgeous scenery — all are to be found in Bet She’arim, one of Israel’s most impressive …
Caroline Glick
The responses elicited by the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh were written hundreds of years ago. Blood libels — the practice of using the death of non-Jews as a …