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A Zionist Watch List
Zionist education is needed now more than ever. And yet, with the spread of coronavirus, the vital Zionist education work of synagogue schools, Jewish...
Independent Arabia Claim ‘Hebrew Is a Branch of Arabic’ Mirrors Broader Anti-Zionist Narrative
After having presented a detailed translation of Independent Arabia’s article (“Between Hebrew and Arabic -- Roots and Similarities, but…,” December 20) in our first post, in this second part we share with readers our...
‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African Continent
JNS.org - The BDS movement, whose goal is for rest of the world to quarantine the State of Israel as though it were the coronavirus, is undergoing a “rebranding” in its South African heartland. Last week,...
Coronavirus, Europe, and Israel
JNS.org - Now it’s official: The head of the World Health Organization says Europe has become the global epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, replacing China, which is slowly recovering from the pandemic. While transparency is...
The War Against COVID-19 Can Unite Us
JNS.org - The past decade has witnessed perhaps the greatest degree of polarization of the...
Eating the Golden Calf
Eating plays a very important part in Jewish rituals. Once upon a time, eating sacrifices...
Taiwan and Israel: Don’t Recognize, But Collaborate
In the late 1940s, both Taiwan and the modern-day State of Israel managed to face...
Rick Steves Keeping Faith With the Mullahs, Not His Viewers
Rick Steves, the beloved producer of travel shows for PBS, has a pretty explicit agenda...
Pandemic Panic a Breeding Ground for the Virus of Jew-Hatred
JNS.org - Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in...
A Zionist Watch List
Zionist education is needed now more than ever. And yet, with the spread of coronavirus, the vital Zionist education work of synagogue schools, Jewish day...
Independent Arabia Claim ‘Hebrew Is a Branch of Arabic’ Mirrors Broader Anti-Zionist Narrative
After having presented a detailed translation of Independent Arabia’s article (“Between Hebrew and Arabic -- Roots and Similarities, but…,” December 20) in our first...
‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African Continent
JNS.org - The BDS movement, whose goal is for rest of the world to quarantine the State of Israel as though it were the coronavirus,...
Coronavirus, Europe, and Israel
JNS.org - Now it’s official: The head of the World Health Organization says Europe has become the global epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, replacing China,...
The War Against COVID-19 Can Unite Us
JNS.org - The past decade has witnessed perhaps the greatest degree of polarization of the American public in the country’s history. It has permeated and...
Eating the Golden Calf
Eating plays a very important part in Jewish rituals. Once upon a time, eating sacrifices in the Temple was the centerpiece of Jewish communal life....
Taiwan and Israel: Don’t Recognize, But Collaborate
In the late 1940s, both Taiwan and the modern-day State of Israel managed to face down massive powers that categorically rejected their rights to their...
Rick Steves Keeping Faith With the Mullahs, Not His Viewers
Rick Steves, the beloved producer of travel shows for PBS, has a pretty explicit agenda for his journalism. He wants to promote empathy for people...
Pandemic Panic a Breeding Ground for the Virus of Jew-Hatred
JNS.org - Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in the period when the bubonic plague swept through Europe from...
Coronavirus Is Uniting Us
JNS.org - I read in The New York Times this week that German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that two-thirds of the German population could end...
Honoring the Jew Who Created Iran’s First English-Farsi Dictionary
JNS.org - As most Americans focused on Super Bowl Sunday last month, nearly 600 Iranian Jews gathered at the West Hollywood Temple Beth El to...
Zeinab Soleimani: Islam’s Female Avenger
Zeinab Soleimani is the daughter of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander killed in January by the Americans. His death sent shockwaves through Iran’s...
Findings on ISIS Refugees Further Complicate Europe’s Dilemma
It's the question that has consumed governments and counterterrorism officials since the Islamic State first took hold: what to do with the foreign ISIS fighters...
The Palestinian ‘Right of Return’ Is Really About Destroying Israel
On January 28, President Trump revealed his administration’s long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. As several commentators noted, the proposal explicitly states that there shall be no...
