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With Iran's rulers threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, the modern world is reminded of an ancient truth: geography is power. The Strait is just a narrow channel between Iran and Oman, yet a huge share of the world's oil flows through it. Control that passage and you can rattle global markets, spike prices, and make nations nervous. Why the land of Canaan was so important When God told Abraham to go to the land He would show him, Abraham was being sent to Canaan, one of the great...
FASTSIGNS® of West Orlando, a staple of the local business community since 2011, has officially been acquired by franchise veterans Renee Friedman and Richard Goldstein. The strategic acquisition transitions the established West Orlando center into a high-capacity, multi-location network, massively scaling its production power and service capabilities. By merging the West Orlando facility's local expertise with the infrastructure of Friedman and Goldstein's top-tier Orlando Central...
Part Four of a Six-Part series A On May 15, as has been done for decades, Palestinian Arabs, their supporters and Israel detractors observed the “Nakba” or the catastrophe of Israel’s birth in 1948. In order to understand the veracity of that narrative and how it’s been conflated in modern dialogue and reporting, it’s important to understand what lies behind that. A Cold War creation The invention of modern Palestinian Arab identity in 1964 did not happen in a vacuum. Nor was it merely the product of the coalescing of an ethnic Arab identity...
A senior Iranian cleric called on Muslims worldwide to attack U.S. interests, saying that waging jihad against the “infidel enemy” was a religious obligation “for anyone capable of carrying it out.” “It is incumbent upon the free people of the region not to remain silent in the face of the aggression of the Zionist-American enemy,” said Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, a top member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, in a statement carried by the semi-official Mehr News outlet. “America is a hostile infidel enemy, and jihad against it with all one’s stren...
Connecticut man arrested for allegedly yelling slurs at visibly identified Jews, slapping kippah off man’s head By Jessica Russak-Hoffman (JNS) — Community members helped the New Haven Police Department identify Paul Smith, 36, of East Haven, Conn., who was arrested and accused of shouting antisemitic slurs at three visibly Jewish people and of slapping a kippah off a victim’s head. Victims said that the alleged attacker smelled of alcohol and that he approached the three Jews on Crown Street on June 2 and yelled, “get out of my city,” “baby ki...
(JNS) — As details of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Iran framework agreement begin to emerge, Jewish organizations and policy experts said that questions remain whether its terms go far enough and if Tehran can be trusted to adhere to them. “Whether or not this agreement succeeds lies in strict verification and intrusive enforcement,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS. “Given Iran’s 47-year history of deceit and deception, its secretive nuclear program and its role as paymaster and armorer of terrorist proxi...
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, in association with the National Library of Israel, is pleased to announce that Amir Tibon, author of “The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands” (Little, Brown and Company), is the winner of its 2026 award for nonfiction. The $100,000 prize is awarded annually to an emerging author writing in or translated into English. In “The Gates of Gaza,” Tibon weaves together personal testimony, historical context a...
