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(JNS) - Everyone's heard of the king of beers. Now, meet the queen. For the longest time, Israel was known primarily for two competing beers: Maccabi or Goldstar, sold in stores, bars and restaurants, on tap or by the bottle. Tourists and sabras alike tended to favor one over the other, akin to preferring a cold glass of Coke or Pepsi. Those days are gone. The Jewish state has gotten into the beer industry step by step, and one of the more successful ventures is Malka Brewery in the Western...
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, the Jewish National Fund, will be allocating $100,000 to support New York City's Israel parade for the first time. The annual parade, known as Israel Day on Fifth, took place on Sunday, May 18, with the theme "Hatikvah," the name of Israel's national anthem, which means "the hope." KKL-JNF billed it as the "largest global gathering in support of Israel." The allocation by KKL-JNF underscores an effort to strengthen bonds between Israeli and American Jews, the group...
(JNS) — A New York University finance professor of mine in the early 1970s said, “Give me one set of numbers, and I will give you two sets of answers.” For most of my professional career, this has been true. Going against that mantra, I am going to offer a few sets of numbers and only one set of answers. Because there is only one answer. The “land” set of numbers There are about 1.978 billion Muslims in the world out of approximately 8.2 billion people. Some 72 percent of Muslims live in countries where the Islamic religious symbol (a crescent...
(JNS) — After a seven-year hiatus, Israel’s Consulate General in New York revived its official Israeli Independence Day celebration with an event in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday night that blended solemn speeches with Israeli folk dancing, themed cocktails and reflections on the country’s resilience in the wake of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. As many as 800 guests attended, including the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams; Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.); and Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York,...
(JNS) — Where can rabbis gather to hear from the Speaker of the House and a progressive Democratic senator about their support for the State of Israel? Where can they join Christian ministers to advocate for Israel, participate in a respectful discussion about the administration’s efforts against antisemitism, study biblical texts, learn about troubling antisemitism trends, and hear from influential authors and student leaders confronting anti-Israel activity on campus? If you said the Annual Conference of the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition, you...
(JNS) — Five tiny figurines — including black wood-carved heads depicting African figures — have been uncovered in Israel’s Negev Desert, offering rare insight into unexpected cultural connections in the region some 1,500 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced. The statuettes were discovered in 2017 during an excavation at Tel Malhata in the Arad Valley, in graves belonging to women and children. The findings date to the Byzantine period and suggest trade or cultural ties that extended far beyond the immediate region. The res...
Argentine Supreme Court discovers over 80 boxes of forgotten Nazi documents By Grace Gilson (JTA) — The Supreme Court of Argentina discovered over 80 boxes of material from the Nazis in its basement last Friday, prompting court officials to work with local Jewish organizations to review their contents. The boxes were sent in 1941 from the embassy of Nazi Germany in Tokyo to German diplomats in Argentina. Their contents include Nazi postcards, photographs and propaganda material, which, the court said in a statement Monday, were “intended to...
(JNS) — Israelis are increasingly concerned about the possibility of a large-scale terrorist invasion led by Palestinian terrorist organizations from Judea and Samaria, according to a new survey made public on Thursday. The poll, published by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and conducted by the Lazar Research Institute, surveyed a representative sample of approximately 700 Jewish and Arab Israelis. Eighty-one percent of the Jewish Israeli respondents have concerns about a large-scale terror attack emanating from Judea a...
(JNS) — Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza issued an urgent demand for clarification from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on May 7, following a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that only 21 captives remain alive—contradicting Jerusalem’s official figure of 24. In a statement issued by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, relatives called on the government to disclose any updated intelligence. “Following the U.S. president’s statement last night regarding the number of living hostages st...
