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    Mourners carry portraits of Ezzedine al-Haddad, the slain chief of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, who was killed in an overnight Israeli strike along with his daughter and wife, during their funeral in Gaza City on May 16, 2026. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images.
    Israel News
    Netanyahu hails strike killing Hamas ‘chief murderer’
    “Every terrorist is a marked man; we will pursue and reach them all,” the Israeli prime minister said.
    May 17, 2026
    JNS Staff
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observes an Israeli Navy operation from the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2026. Photo by Chaim Zach/GPO.
    Israel News
    Israeli Navy intercepts Turkish-led Gaza flotilla
    Jerusalem will not allow “any breach of the lawful naval blockade on Gaza,” the Foreign Ministry said.
    May 18, 2026
    JNS Staff
    Attendees watch a pre-recorded video of U.S. President Donald Trump reading from the Bible during "Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving" on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2026. Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Images.
    World News
    Trump warns Iran time running out on deal
    The president was expected to talk with Netanyahu as he weighs restarting U.S. military action.
    May 18, 2026
    JNS Staff
    Jews celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on the eve of Jerusalem Day, on May 14, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
    Israel News
    Netanyahu announces projects for Jerusalem, including Western Wall
    “There are very few peoples whose capital today is the same as it was 3,000 years ago,” the Israeli prime minister noted.
    May 18, 2026
    JNS Staff
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    A U.S. F-35 stealth fighter is refueled during a routine patrol over regional waters in the Middle East, May 2026. Credit: United States Central Command.
    U.S. News
    WATCH: CENTCOM enforces Iran naval blockade, 85 ships turned around
    Washington launched the maritime operation on April 13.
    May 19, 2026
    JNS Staff
    Israeli sculptor Belu-Simion Fainaru (left) with German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer at the Israeli pavilion of the Venice Biennale art show in Italy on May 15, 2026. Credit: Courtesy of the German Ministry of State for Culture and Media.
    Israel News
    German minister visits Israeli Venice Biennale pavilion
    Wolfram Weimer, who punished culture bosses for anti-Israel displays in the Federal Republic, denounces “antisemitic” boycott attempts in Italy.
    May 19, 2026
    JNS Staff
    Bart de Wever, right, shakes hands with Lahav Shani in Essen, Germany on Sept. 13, 2025. Photo courtesy of Bart De Wever.
    World News
    Brussels concert hall to host Israeli conductor despite board exits
    The Palais des Beaux-Arts proceeded with inviting Lahav Shani for a Nov. 24 performance.
    May 19, 2026
    Yossi Lempkowicz
    Kehillat Israel
    U.S. News
    ‘Surreal’ returning to Kehillat Israel 18 months after LA fire, cantor says
    Chayim Frenkel told JNS that “it’s a whole brand new sound system, brand new room, but it’s still my KI.”
    May 18, 2026
    Aaron Bandler
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    Inea Mamdani video
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    Mamdani releases ‘Nakba Day’ video, gets angry reactions from Jewish leaders
    David Greenfield, CEO of Met Council, told JNS that the video “has strained relationships with a lot of us in the leadership, who have tried to work in good faith with the administration.”
    May 17, 2026
    Debra Nussbaum Cohen
    Noam Bettan, representing Israel, arrives on stage for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 (ESC) at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on May 16, 2026. Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images.
    World News
    Israel’s Noam Bettan places second behind Bulgaria at Eurovision
    The Israeli performer overcame boos and boycotts to deliver a crowd-pleasing performance of “Michelle” in Vienna.
    May 17, 2026
    Steve Linde
    Attendees watch a pre-recorded video of U.S. President Donald Trump reading from the Bible during "Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving" on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2026. Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Images.
    World News
    Trump warns Iran time running out on deal
    The president was expected to talk with Netanyahu as he weighs restarting U.S. military action.
    May 18, 2026
    JNS Staff
    Hungarian Jews shortly before their murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland in May 1944. Photo credit: Yad Vashem.
    Antisemitism
    Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele
    The German doctor and SS officer who fled to Argentina after World War II was never prosecuted for his crimes.
    May 17, 2026
    JNS Staff
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    Exclusive: For first time, Muslim group slated to march in Israel on Fifth parade
    In a break with longstanding practice, the New York City mayor does not plan to join the parade this year.
    May 14, 2026
    Debra Nussbaum Cohen
    Inea Mamdani video
    U.S. News
    Mamdani releases ‘Nakba Day’ video, gets angry reactions from Jewish leaders
    David Greenfield, CEO of Met Council, told JNS that the video “has strained relationships with a lot of us in the leadership, who have tried to work in good faith with the administration.”
    May 17, 2026
    Debra Nussbaum Cohen
    NYT EndJewHatred
    U.S. News
    More than 300 protest ‘blood libel’ published by ‘New York Times’ outside paper’s NYC office
    “A column like this does horrible damage, normalizing anti-Zionism and antisemitism,” a dentist, who traveled six hours to attend the rally, told JNS.
    May 15, 2026
    Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Jessica Russak-Hoffman
    Hungarian Jews shortly before their murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland in May 1944. Photo credit: Yad Vashem.
    Antisemitism
    Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele
    The German doctor and SS officer who fled to Argentina after World War II was never prosecuted for his crimes.
    May 17, 2026
    JNS Staff
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    Illustration of Shabbat candle holders, July 17, 2009. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
    Editor-in-Chief
    Shabbat and 250 years of a nation of faith and liberty
    The resistance to President Donald Trump’s celebration of the Sabbath in the semiquincentennial is partisan folly and denial of the importance of religion in U.S. history.
    May 15, 2026
    Jonathan S. Tobin
    A general view of the Olympic Stadium as performers form the Olympic rings and the number 100 during the opening ceremony of the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, July 19, 1996. Photo by Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images.
    Opinion
    Abe Foxman and Bernie Marcus: Reflections on two men and one vision
    In Atlanta, the two leaders shaped a coordinated approach to protecting Jewish life in America.
    May 17, 2026
    Jay Kaiman
    Studying Torah. Credit: Maor Attias/Pexels.
    Opinion
    The real meaning of ‘Naaseh v’Nishma’ after Oct. 7
    At Sinai, the Jewish people did not become connected only by belief. They became connected by shared purpose.
    May 15, 2026
    Rabbi Derek Gormin
    White House Marine One
    U.S. News
    White House hosts Jewish leaders, activists ahead of Shabbat 250
    Following the reception, participants gathered at Decatur House for a kosher Shabbat dinner.
    May 17, 2026
    JNS Staff
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    Noam Bettan, representing Israel, arrives on stage for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 (ESC) at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on May 16, 2026. Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images.
    World News
    Israel’s Noam Bettan places second behind Bulgaria at Eurovision
    The Israeli performer overcame boos and boycotts to deliver a crowd-pleasing performance of “Michelle” in Vienna.
    May 17, 2026
    Steve Linde
    The Villa Grande historic property in Oslo, which houses the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. Credit: Leifern/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.
    Opinion
    The erosion of Holocaust memory
    Creating a language of “parallel traumas” harms the historical record, and it ultimately flattens moral distinction.
    May 13, 2026
    Moshe R. Manheim
    IDF Near Lebanon
    Opinion
    A marathon of sprints: The unique burden of the Israeli soldier
    The front line and the home front are inextricably linked.
    May 18, 2026
    Ran Bar-Yoshafat
    Ultra-Orthodox boys celebrate around a bonfire ahead of the Lag B'Omer holiday in the Mea She'arim neighborhood of Jerusalem, May 3, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
    Israel News
    Jerusalem has 1.063 million residents
    The capital’s fertility rate is 3.68 childen per woman, higher than the national average of 2.89.
    May 15, 2026
    TPS-IL Staff
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    An illegal garbage dump in western Samaria, overlooking the Israeli city of Rosh HaAyin, May 14, 2026. Photo by Josh Hasten.
    Feature
    Illegal expansion, pollution highlighted on Samaria tour near central Israel
    Regavim-led visit points to sewage, dumping and construction encroaching on Area C, kilometers from Jewish state’s population centers.
    May 18, 2026
    Josh Hasten
    Staff Sgt. A (left) with a fellow soldier from the IDF's Hashmonaim Brigade. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.
    Feature
    ‘We removed the blanket and saw rockets pointed at Nahariya’
    Staff Sgt. A., an immigrant from Los Angeles, shares his remarkable journey to the IDF’s Hashmonaim Brigade in Lebanon.
    May 17, 2026
    Yaakov Lappin
    Congregants hold new Toral scrolls in the new Shlomit synagogue, May 7, 2026. Photo by Elad Zagman.
    Feature
    Shlomit dedicates first synagogue in memory of fallen defenders
    Be’er Shalom Synagogue honors four members of the community’s security team killed on Oct. 7.
    May 17, 2026
    Tania Shalom Michaelian
    Israeli actress Gal Gadot talks to Michal Herzog, President Isaac Herzog's wife, at the President’s Conference for a Shared Israeli Future in Jerusalem, May 13, 2026. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.
    Feature
    Gal Gadot reveals her family is building a new home in Israel
    Talking to Michal Herzog at the President’s Conference in Jerusalem, the famous actress shares that being Israeli abroad has become “very complicated.”
    May 13, 2026
    Steve Linde
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    Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) arrives in Washington, D.C., for a House vote on the funding bill to reopen the government. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.
    Editor-in-Chief
    Antisemitism transformed Thomas Massie from libertarian extremist to liberal hero
    The anti-Trump congressman from Kentucky is blaming his primary woes on Israel and Zionist billionaires. And the liberal press and Jew-haters everywhere are cheering for him.
    May. 18, 2026
    Jonathan S. Tobin
    A view of a modern arch, designed by Edi Jacobs, in the Heart of Efrat Synagogue, which places the Torah scrolls in a way that makes it seem as if coming out of fire, symbolizing the burning bush that Moses encountered in the desert, June 5, 2011. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.