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(JNS) — The 4,500 Jewish teenagers from all over the world—from Australia to Slovakia to Singapore to Brazil to France to Los Angeles—who had come to Brooklyn, N.Y., for a weekend of inspiration and learning through the Chabad movement, intended to return home on Sunday. A blizzard that paralyzed the city, shutting airports and leading officials to ban cars from the streets, had other ideas. Instead, teens who had never seen snow before had friendly snowball fights outside 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of the international movem...
(JNS) — The joint Israeli-American military campaign against Iran, now in its third day, has systematically decapitated the Iranian regime’s leadership from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei down, while causing extensive damage to its ballistic missile program. A military official speaking on Sunday provided a detailed assessment of the severe damage inflicted upon the Iranian weapons industry and missile program during the ongoing operation. According to the official, hundreds of Iranian terror regime missiles were successfully destroyed, and the...
Serves 4-6 Knishes are an Ashkenazi dish that is typically served at Purim, Passover, Chanukah, especially if fried, and other holidays. Knishes can be filled with potato, cottage cheese or kasha fillings. My favorite is the potato recipe below. When I make chicken recipes, I save all the chicken fat and excess skin, then I fry it in a non-stick skillet with 1/4 cup chopped onion to get crisp Grieben (crackling). They freeze well for flavoring recipes. As a shortcut, you might try refrigerated...
Germany’s largest political party moves to end funding for UNRWA, tighten oversight of PA aid (JNS) — The largest political party in the German federal legislature is calling for an end to financial support of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the global body’s Palestinian aid organization, according to Jüdische Allgemeine, the country’s national Jewish weekly newspaper. The Christian Democratic Union, led by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, unanimously approved a motion on Feb. 21 calling for stricter criteria for aid payments to the Pale...
Editor’s note: Purim is over, but this article can show parents that the theme of “KPop Demon Hunters” is as old as Purim. (JNS) — If you have a daughter between the ages of 6 and 12, it is very likely you’ve seen Netflix’s cult classic “KPop Demon Hunters”—at least three times. Even if you don’t have kids, you may have watched it at least once. This masterfully animated musical comedy about a Korean girl band, Huntr/x, that moonlights as demon hunters has seduced even my childless friends....
(JNS) — Controversial conservative commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson made several false statements during his Feb. 18 interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Carlson claimed for example that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family did not speak Hebrew and had no historical ties to the region. This is incorrect: the leader’s paternal grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, was a Zionist rabbi who delivered sermons in Hebrew—uncommon at the time—and ensured that his family spoke the language at home. His...
(JNS) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joined senior Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset on Tuesday, declaring that Israel is the United States’ “true and unparalleled partner” amid regional instability and rising global antisemitism. The session of the Knesset Caucus for Israel–U.S. Relations, initiated by the Ruderman Family Foundation and chaired by Knesset Member Ohad Tal, marked the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. It brought together Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and coalition and opposition lawmakers in a rare...
(JNS) — Emergency medical services responded to a direct Iranian missile impact in Beersheva on Monday, as the Jewish state absorbed a third day of strikes in Tehran’s war against Israel and the United States. Magen David Adom crews treated and evacuated a 35 year old man to the city’s Soroka Medical Center who was moderately wounded and 18 others who were lightly hurt, all by flying glass. United Hatzalah said its medical teams were treating several lightly injured, conscious victims after a building was hit in the capital of the Negev. Iran...
(JNS) — In a glowing profile of a Palestinian American neurosurgeon building schools and offering hot meals to children in the Gaza Strip, The New York Times inadvertently exposed a far more consequential story than the one it intended to tell. Beneath the “feel good” narrative lies an uncomfortable truth: the curriculum used in Palestinian Authority schools is saturated with anti-Israel incitement, antisemitism and the glorification of violence—an educational framework that has served to indoctrinate generations of young Palestinians with th...
Whale shark spotted off Eilat coast By JNS Staff (JNS) — A whale shark about 5-meters (16-feet) long was spotted on Sunday morning in Eilat Bay. The rare sighting was documented by city lifeguard Brian Lieberman, who captured the animal on video near the shore, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported. Whale sharks are the largest known living fish species and by far the most massive non-cetacean animal extant. They are considered harmless to humans. The shark briefly approached the shore before returning to deeper water. Former Hamas hos...
(JNS) — More than 350 current and former University of California scholars signed a letter calling on the system’s regents to discuss a recent AMCHA Initiative report about antisemitism at their next meeting. Judea Pearl, a University of California, Los Angeles computer science professor and father of Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002, organized the letter with Ilan Benjamin, a distinguished professor emeritus of chemistry at UC Santa Cruz. At press time, 279 current and 89 for...
(JNS) — Nearly 15 hours after Jessica Tisch, the New York City Police Department commissioner, decried attacks on police officers in Washington Square Park, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that it was just "kids throwing snowballs." "The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops. I want to be very clear: The behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal," Tisch stated at 9:55 p.m. on Monday. "Our detectives are investigating this matter." At 11:46 a.m. on Tuesday, M...
