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(JNS) — Speaking on “The Future of Judea and Samaria” at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Mindy McAlindon, a Republican state representative of Arkansas, emphasized the spiritual and moral bonds linking the United States and Israel. The conference was sponsored by American Friends of Judea & Samaria and the Jewish News Syndicate. She described the U.S.-Israel relationship as founded not only on policy but on “faith, on trust and on friendship.” McAlindon said both nations share a belief that “light can overcome darkness and faith c...
(JNS) - After facing a flood of antisemitism in the publishing world, Australian writer Linda Margolin Royal brought her Holocaust story to Jerusalem, turning adversity into triumph. Royal, a former advertising copywriter in Australia, flew to Israel to launch her bestselling debut novel, "The Star on the Grave," at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, on Sept. 30. Released last year, Royal's historical fiction novel is based on her family's true story of how an altruistic gentile...
(JNS) - Zaziwe and Zamaswazi (Swazi) Dlamini-Manaway, the granddaughters of South Africa's legendary leader, Nelson Mandela, have told JNS that while their visit to Israel and Gaza in September had been strictly humanitarian, it was also "life-changing." The two sisters, whose mother, Zenani MandelaDlamini, was the second daughter of Mandela's second wife, Winnie, met Israeli President Isaac Herzog, toured Yad Vashem and Jerusalem's Old City, and visited areas in southern Israel devastated by...
(JNS) - In its first international pickleball tournament, the Israel Open Team has already made a splash on the global stage, winning one gold and two silver medals at the recent Pickleball World Cup in Fort Lauderdale. There were some nerves before the event, as Israel's fledgling national team wondered if it belonged among the world's best. But those doubts were quickly dispelled as the Israeli players proved their mettle in several divisions. Team captain Adam Bachmann earned Israel's first...
(JNS) - Ditza Or, mother of Avinatan Or, who survived 738 days in Hamas captivity, said on Wednesday that the Jewish people stand at a historic crossroads. "Now is the time to advance the national dream of the people of Israel, the fulfillment of divine prophecy and the ultimate redemption of all humanity," Or said in an address to "The Future of Judea and Samaria" conference in Jerusalem. She described her son's return as part of the current ceasefire with Hamas as "a wondrous miracle."...
(JNS) — A new joint command center established by the United States military’s Central Command in the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat in recent days to help manage the future of the Gaza Strip is described by former Israeli military officers as an “unprecedented” development in external involvement in the affairs of the Strip. The Civil-Military Coordination Center houses hundreds of personnel. The three-story structure includes a first floor designated as for Israeli security personnel only (a secure area for officials from the IDF, Foreign...
(JNS) — The Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, can be traced back to Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, stated on Wednesday evening. “There is a direct line between the withdrawal from Gaza to the disaster of Oct. 7,” Chikli said in remarks at The Future of Judea and Samaria conference at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, sponsored by the American Friends of Judea & Samaria and the Jewish News Syndica...
About 10 years ago, as a volunteer program director for the Jewish Pavilion, I put together a program about Yiddish — its words, humor, and heart — and took it “on the road” to a dozen assisted-living and nursing facilities across West Orange County. The residents loved it. We laughed our way through bupkes, kvetch, schlep, mensch, and dozens of other favorites. Many in the audience still remembered those words from their parents or childhood neighbors. The program was a great schtick, and now it has brought back memories of my childho...
(JNS) — Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi submitted her letter of resignation to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir at a meeting on Friday. Her resignation came after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he intended to fire her. “In light of the severity of the suspicions and the sensitivity of the role of the [Military Advocate General] in charge of enforcing the law and setting legal norms throughout the IDF, the Minister of Defense intends to begin the process of appointing a new Military Adv...
He was elected to represent Astoria, Queens, in New York’s state Assembly and is running to helm New York City. But Zohran Mamdani has called the Palestinian cause “central to my identity,” both in and out of politics. Mamdani consistently and proudly associates with the pro-Palestinian movement in high-profile settings across New York City. Shortly after delivering a stunning upset in the mayoral primary, for instance, he took the stage with Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian protest leader who was detained by the Trump administration, at co...
(JNS) MELBOURNE, Australia — Over one hundred Australian doctors were gathering this week in both Melbourne and Sydney as part of a major immigration fair for medical professionals planning on moving to Israel following the war against Hamas in Gaza. The event comes amid a sharp rise in antisemitism around the world following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel. In Australia, currently ruled by a strongly anti-Israel government, a synagogue and a Jewish daycare center were firebombed and Jewish-owned properties and cars h...
Part of my growing up experience included my friends affectionately calling me just by my last name, and my high school coaches doing the same, only not so affectionately. Problem is, most people have a tendency to mispronounce my last name. Instead of pronouncing the letter “v” at the end, they say it like my last name ends with an “f.” Hence Witkov becomes Witkoff. When I spell my name (over the phone or checking in somewhere) I always finish with, “That last letter is a ‘v’ as in the word ‘victory.’” But, more often than not, they still get...
(JNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who used an appearance before the Heritage Foundation last month to attack Tucker Carlson over the former Fox News host’s anti-Israel rhetoric, blasted him again Thursday after the head of the conservative think tank refused to disavow the right-wing firebrand. Cruz didn’t mention Carlson by name as he kicked off the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual legislative conference in Las Vegas with a call to action to stop the spread of anti-Israel talk among young Christians. But he left no doubt to whom he was ref...
