(April 21, 2024 / JNS) A Jewish student at Yale University was stabbed in the eye with a PLO flag during an anti-Israel demonstration at the school’s New Haven, Conn., campus on Saturday night. “Tonight at Yale, I was assaulted by a student today at an anti-Israel protest. He stabbed me in the eye with a Palestinian flag. Now I’m in the hospital. This is what happens when visibly Jewish students try to attend and document these rallies,” Sahar Tartak, a sophomore, tweeted after the incident ..read more

Moshe Taragin   More than two centuries of Egyptian persecution and oppression had shuttered the Jewish imagination. We couldn’t imagine anything beyond the squalor and misery of our endless nightmare. To liberate our imaginations in the buildup to our redemption, Hashem instructed the Jewish slaves to tell the epic story of the Exodus to their children and grandchildren. This announcement was a revelation. Slaves do not typically raise families. Children of slaves belong to their owners and can be sold away as chattel ..read more

(April 21, 2024 / JNS) Palestinian terrorists in northeastern Samaria opened fire at Kibbutz Meirav in northern Israel on Sunday. The attack caused no injuries but damaged a building in the community, the military said. Israeli forces set up roadblocks in the area and began searching for the terrorists. During the manhunt, Palestinians threw an explosive device at soldiers, causing no casualties. In February, Palestinian terrorists in Samaria twice opened fire on the Israeli farming community of Meirav, located on the downward slopes of Mount Gilboa and inside the country’s pre-1967 ..read more

www.yu.edu/drlamm   RABBI NORMAN LAMM                                                                            Passover THE JEWISH CENTER               ..read more

MIKE WAGENHEIM (April 21, 2024 / JNS) American Jewish and pro-Israel groups lauded Saturday’s passage of a long-stalled Israel supplemental aid bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. Under the threat of losing his job from his right flank, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shepherded the bill—part of a larger foreign aid and national security package—to a successful 366-58 vote, with 37 Democrats and 21 Republicans opposing. The bill, which now heads to the Senate, includes $17 billion in defense aid to Israel, along with $9 billion for humanitarian aid to Gazans and others involved in c ..read more

MIKE WAGENHEIM U.S. President Joe Biden, joined by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is briefed on the terrorist assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email Print (April 21, 2024 / JNS) Israeli government officials reacted forcefully on Saturday to reports that the Biden administration intends to sanction the Israel Defense Forces battalion Netzah Yehuda for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians ..read more

By Joseph Frager, MD The vicious systematic slaughter on October 7th of innocent men, women and children points out the glaring lack of understanding the West has for the East(Middle East). Although most people were horrified by the atrocities, the Hamas propaganda machine was at work almost immediately. The lies and misinformation campaign was in full gear by October 8th and has not stopped for a moment since. Congressman Jamaal Bowman was a case in point when he went on record saying there was “no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women” As if that wasn’t bad enough he went on to sa ..read more

By Moshe Phillips On November 4, 1979 Iranian militants seized control of the US embassy in Tehran and kidnapped over 50 Americans. These hostages were held captive for 444 days. Iran has been at war with America for 45 years, but the thing is the overwhelming majority of politicians, Democrats and Republicans, have failed to see Iran as the enemy it is and the struggle we are in as the war that it is ..read more

It was true then and it is true now; we must build our own society with its own value system. “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: I am Hashem your G-d. Like the practice of the land of Egypt in which you dwelled you shall not do, and like the practice of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you, you shall not do, and you shall not follow their statutes ..read more

CHARLES BYBELEZER April 18, 2024 / JNS) Israel attacked deep in Iran early Friday morning, reportedly targeting a military facility close to the city of Isfahan, some 930 miles from the Jewish state. Three Iranian sources confirmed to The New York Times that an airbase in Isfahan was targeted, while anonymous Israeli and U.S. officials were cited by outlets as saying that the IDF conducted the strike. Iranian media denied any Israeli missile attack, claiming that the Islamic Republic had shot down drones in its airspace ..read more