February 18, 2022

This One’s for You JC

New Jersey snowplow driver Donny Klarmann seen plowing snow onto two Jewish men during a snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022. Source: Screenshot. by Jonathan Feldstein and Shawn Hyland A New Jersey evangelical minister and Orthodox Jew walk into Congress… it […]
February 10, 2022

Israeli study: Covid antibodies perform best after infection rather than vaccine

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the United States. Credit: NIAID-RML via Wikimedia Commons. by Abigail Klein Leichman (Israel21c) — Over time, the number of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies […]
February 9, 2022

Nimble Birmingham group responsible for U.S. funding of Israeli missile defense

An Iron Dome air-defense battery set near the southern Israeli city of Ashdod fires an intercepting missile on July 14, 2014. Photo by David Buimovitch/Flash90. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — American funding for Israeli missile defense wasn’t sealed at the […]
February 7, 2022

Nazi roots of Arab antisemitism must not be denied

by Lyn Julius (JNS) — What impact did the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, have on the Nazi enterprise? According to Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, the Mufti’s role was limited — so marginal, in fact, that […]
February 6, 2022

Israel’s justice minister approves sanctions against Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream in a grocery-store freezer. Credit: Ho Su A Bi/Shutterstock.com. (JNS) — Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar approved on Feb. 5 the sanctioning of ice-cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever Global, for its […]
February 5, 2022

The Benjamins? A “Palestine Firster” controversy hits Congress

Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) in 2018 Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Christopher Dilts. by Ben Cohen (JNS) — During Barack Obama’s presidency, when diplomatic tensions between Israel and the United States sank to rarely seen lows, the term “Israel-Firster” was concocted by the […]
February 3, 2022

Israeli companies to advertise during Super Bowl

SoFi stadium, Los Angeles. Credit: Flickr Thank You (21 Millions+) views via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — Two Israeli high-tech companies will join the exclusive club of NFL Super Bowl advertisers, the business daily Calcalist reported on Feb. 2. Israeli high-tech […]
January 24, 2022

Israeli discovery could stop spread of pancreatic cancer cells in liver

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital. Credit: Alex Jilitsky via Wikimedia Commons. by Maayan Hoffman (JNS) — A team of researchers from Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center has discovered how pancreatic cancer cells spread in the liver, which could […]
January 24, 2022

Woke ideology, anti-Israel faculty lead surge in campus hostility

A pro-Palestinian rally at Arizona State University in June 2021 held by Students for Justice in Palestine. Source: Facebook. by David Isaac (JNS) — Pro-Israel groups working on campus agree that the situation for Jewish students is growing steadily worse. […]
January 21, 2022

What those who follow the “stolen land” myth don’t understand

Protesters demonstrate against Israel’s plan to demolish some houses of Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on July 30, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — One of the tragicomic if all too prevalent […]
January 21, 2022

“The Girl From Oslo” makes no sense, is detached from plausible reality

by Jonathan Feldstein People have been talking about a new “hit” Netflix series, “The Girl from Oslo,” with enough positive reviews that we decided to watch it. Having seen it, I’m not sure why anyone is saying anything other than […]