May 29, 1979 — Dayan Addresses Peace Process
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan speaks to the Knesset about the events that culminated in the peace treaty Israel and Egypt signed two months earlier. Dayan emphasizes Israel’s commitment to peace and its...
Two weeks ago, an Israeli pregnant woman who was en route to deliver her baby was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank.
On Thursday morning, doctors communicated that that baby had died of his wounds.
In the terror attack, near the Israeli...
(New York Jewish Week) — New Yorker Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a Holocaust survivor known for taking up ballroom dancing in her late 80s, died at her home on the Upper West Side on Sunday. She was just one week shy of her 101st birthday.
The cause...
Soon after a Chicago theater canceled a screening of a documentary about campus antisemitism, its operators had second thoughts.
Facing a firestorm of criticism charging the theater with antisemitism, the operators of Facets Film Forum said they would...
By Joe Alterman, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published May 28, 2025
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Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried so desperately to suppress...
Paramount+ and MTV Documentary Films told JNS exclusively on Tuesday that they plan to expand access to Montana Tucker’s documentary “The Children of October 7” on a global basis starting on June 2, the first day of Shavuot.
The 36-minute film will...
If you’ve been looking for a weekend getaway with a little chutzpah and a lot of wit, Space Presents has you covered. This fall and winter, two of the most beloved Jewish voices in American culture—Fran Lebowitz and Ira Glass—will be making their...
An Israel Defense Forces aircraft eliminated a terrorist of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in Southern Lebanon on Monday, the military confirmed on Tuesday, sharing footage of the aerial attack.
The strike was carried out in the Majdal Zoun area, approximately...
Jonathan Duschnitzky (JNS)
• Published May 27, 2025
An extraordinary moment unfolded Monday evening in Washington when Gene Simmons, the 75-year-old frontman for legendary rock band KISS, encountered Harold “Hal” Urban, a 100-year-old World War II veteran who participated in the liberation of the...
(JTA) — The Trump administration intends to cancel all of Harvard University’s remaining federal funding, approximately $100 million, in its latest salvo in a battle that started over the school’s handling of antisemitism concerns.
The intention...
(JTA) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has issued a rare public rebuke of Israel, saying he felt compelled to speak out because “international humanitarian law is really being violated” in Gaza.
The comments come as the Israeli army is...
European leaders who have recently criticized Israel over its war against Hamas in Gaza have succumbed to political pressure fueled by a nefarious international media campaign against the Jewish state, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said Tuesday.
The...
