SCHOOLS

At YU graduation, top honor goes to Stefanik

Rep. Elise Stefanik, one of the leading voices in Congress denouncing Jew-hatred, received Yeshiva University’s highest honor — its presidential medallion — during the …

Shavuot

Judaism, Zionism and the environment at Shavuot

As Shavuot approaches, we celebrate not only the giving of the Torah — the covenant between the Jewish people and God — and the Festival of the Harvest, which marks the end of the wheat …

on campus

‘By any means necessary’

The deranged and depraved pro-Hamas constituencies on Ivy League campuses have taken many liberties with their “higher” education over the past 20 months. What tops the list is a twisted …

gaza war

Douglas Murray: Israel can’t leave Hamas in Gaza

Despite mounting international pressure and war costs, Israel cannot afford to end its war “with Hamas in power in any form,” British public intellectual Douglas Murray told JNS last …

history

From the BLM riots to DC shooting in 5 years

The path that led Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old college-educated Hispanic man with a professional career working for a medical organization, to embrace a belief in “Free Palestine” …

food

Jamie Geller’s perfect Jerusalem cheesecake

On May 19, two weeks before Shavuot, celebrity chef and cookbook author Jamie Geller, who is now the chief communications officer of Aish, set out with her team (including the writer of this …

gaza war

Braving ‘smelly’ protests, 55K walk in Toronto

Sara Lefton, the chief development officer at the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, estimates that 6,000 more people — a total of 56,000 — marched at this year’s Walk with Israel …

gaza war

The insane imagining of the imagined ‘Palestine’

At the 2023 Palestine Book Awards ceremony, the winner of the “Counter Current Award” category was the volume “Imagining Palestine,” which concerns itself with a …

gaza war

Bedouin voices cry out, ‘Their Islam is not ours’

On the blood-soaked morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Hamid Abu Ar’ar was driving from his home in a Bedouin town in the Negev with his pregnant wife, Fatma, their seven-month-old baby and a coworker. …

Opinion

Creeping dangers of AI: A Jewish perspective

As the European Union finalizes a new AI code of practice, set to be released in weeks, governments across Europe are waking up to the urgency of regulation. •Globally, we are seeing …

politics

Levin gives Carlson a well-earned dressing-down

Tucker Carlson is a master of disingenuousness, to put it generously. That’s why the only viewers still charmed by his trademark deer-in-the-headlights act are those on the right who champion …

opinion

Challenges to brit milah are not always threats

It seems that brit milah is under attack again. Police in Antwerp, Belgium, raided the home of two Haredi mohels on May 14, confiscating their knives and demanding a list of the circumcisions …

kosher kitchen

All creamy, some sweet: The food of Shavuot

I love the story of Shavuot. As a child, I think it was the drama, the fire and thunder that attracted me, and the heroism and sad ending for Moses, who ultimately was denied entry to the Promised …

history

Biblical blue dye search told in a visitors center

KFAR ADUMIM, Israel — It was four decades ago that three childhood friends from New Jersey who had immigrated to Israel heard of a young Jerusalem rabbinical student who was looking for scuba …

opinion

To reject Zionism is to reject a core of Judaism

Imagine someone saying that every country in the world, no matter how bloody or concocted their origins, has a right to exist except Israel. Then imagine that person saying it’s not …

schools

Hatikvah on 5th

An estimated 40,000 people, including members of Congress and the Knesset, Israeli ministers, local public officials and former hostages and their families, lined Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on …

travel

French Jews bring solidarity to new heights

“I wanted to prove that it’s still possible to achieve great things,” said Charlie Taieb, creator of Minyan Everest, an initiative that brings Jewish prayer to the highest peaks on …

antisemitism

Italian pizzeria markets slice of anti-Israel bile

The danger is no longer lurking; it’s here, clear and undeniable. What happened recently in Italy is just another alarming signal. A pizzeria owner, proud of her anti-Israel stance, …

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