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(JNS) - As a lifelong Angeleno, I've experienced a decent share of earthquakes, wildfires, El Niño weather events, Santa Ana winds, droughts and extreme heat, but nothing has compared to the enormity and painful reckoning of the current wildfires and wind events displacing Los Angeles residents and destroying homes, communities and even synagogues. While this situation has been incredibly stressful, my training with Community Security Service has provided me with critical tools to remain calm,...
(JNS) — The U.S. has provided Israel with a written guarantee that Jerusalem can resume its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip if negotiations for the second and third phases of the ceasefire agreement fail, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told JNS on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden have provided Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an official missive confirming that “the State of Israel will be able to return to the war on day 43” if talks fail during the 42-day first phase of the a...
(JNS) - After 298 Jewish men and women had sat down, randomly paired together in a speed dating event in Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the dating coach Manya Lazaroff called out a question for them to discuss in their two minutes before being reassigned to another date. "How much money does someone need to be financially stable?" Lazaroff, co-director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, asked the couples in the ballroom of the school Oholei Torah....
These are parve chewy cookies with a licorice flavor. 2 large eggs 1/4 tsp. salt 2 1/4 cups flour 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 1/4 tsp. ground anise powder (You can grind star anise to make a powder.) 1/3 cup granulated sugar for rolling cookies Preset oven to 375 F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment. In a large bowl, beat the eggs by hand, until the whites disappear. Add brown sugar with eggs, anise, and salt and beat until smooth. Add flour and mix into a dough. Th...
(JTA) — Police in Tennessee are investigating whether an antisemitic manifesto posted online was written by a teenager accused of carrying out a fatal school shooting in Nashville on Jan. 22. The alleged shooter at Antioch High School appears to have posted a livestream of the shooting as well as content on his social media accounts prior to the attack, in which one student was killed. The material was removed after its connection to the shooting became known. According to The Tennessean newspaper, the materials attributed to the shooter, i...
(JNS) — Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday night welcomed the return of Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari from Hamas captivity. “We are happy and excited about your return and await the return of the remaining hostages—through the use of [military] force, cutting off fuel [to Gaza] and stopping the flow of humanitarian aid [to Hamas]—not through surrender,” tweeted Ben-Gvir. Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party formally resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Sunday morning, a da...
Written by the family Our mother and grandmother, Stefanie Hanagud nee Ruben nee Berger, was a strong, independent woman before it was a thing. Stubborn and determined, she was also an eternal optimist and beyond generous with her family. A holocaust survivor, born in the Budapest ghetto in Hungary during WW2, she survived both the Nazi's and Communists. After leaving her native land with her family for Argentina, at the age of 17, she travelled by herself to the United States to marry my grandf... Full story
Sen. Cruz gives Trump drawings by children held hostage in Gaza By JNS Staff (JNS) — U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Sunday that he presented pictures drawn by Israeli children who were held hostage in Gaza to President-elect Donald Trump. “This week, I met with an Israeli hostage family who had been released from Gaza,” Cruz wrote on X. “The beautiful children drew pictures for President Trump, and they asked me to deliver them.” The Senator, who is a staunch defender of Israel and has emerged as a close ally of the president...
President Donald Trump said he is “not confident” that the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war will last, adding that the United States could help rebuild Gaza. Trump, sitting in the Oval Office, made the comments following his inauguration Monday. A reporter asked whether he was confident he could “keep the ceasefire in Gaza and conclude the three phases of the deal.” “I’m not confident,” Trump responded. “That’s not our war, it’s their war. I’m not confident.” Then, presumably referring to Hamas, he added, “But I think they’re very weaken...
(JTA) - A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to Thursday's Oscar nominations. Meanwhile, nominations for a documentary about Judea and Samaria and a docudrama about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes also kept Israel in the conversation. The nominations announcement, delayed multiple times by historically destructive Los Angeles wildfires,...
