Defiant Boy George a hit in Israel
‘I stand with the Jews’ — because I’m ‘a human’
Since the release of his song, “We Will Dance Again,” friends stopped calling. Boy George, the ’80s pop icon, who came out as an outspoken supporter of Israel, sold out one Tel Aviv show …
Jonathan Tobin
'Slam Frank' casts Anne as hero who betrayed her people before they could 'genocide' the Palestinians
This is a moment in Jewish history when scholars, journalists, historians, community leaders and ordinary Jews are all seeking to understand what has been happening to them. Since the Hamas-led …
Media Bias
New York Times whistleblower: Why I left ‘dream job’
The whistleblower behind a shareholder lawsuit accusing the New York Times of anti-Israel bias is speaking out in an exclusive interview with the Free Press, offering a firsthand account of the …
Politics
All political roads lead to the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Politicians courting Jewish votes know a visit to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s ohel in Cambria Heights guarantees a photo-op. Gov. Kathy Hochul was accompanied there last Friday by community activist …
News Briefs
Teen plotted massacre at Jewish-owned mall
An 18-year-old Minnesota man allegedly plotted an ISIS-inspired attack on the Mall of America because its owners are Jewish, federal prosecutors say. Triple Five Group, controlled by the Jewish …
media bias
New York Times called to account in explosive lawsuit
America’s “newspaper of record” is getting a very public checkup. Florida’s giant state pension fund and a Washington think tank have gone to court to force The New York Times Company to open …
Jonathan Tobin
El-Sayed’s mission: Erase Jewish interests
The decision by Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin to campaign on behalf of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, her party’s candidate for Senate in her state, was, she says, a function of a desire to help …
Rabbi Avi Weiss
Couldn’t Mamdani even give us even one day to mourn?
Mr. Mamdani, I have often written that your anti-Zionism is blatant antisemitism. But today, the anniversary of Oct. 7, I write about something much deeper — your lack of humanity. In …
gaza war
Oct. 7 anniversary news reports: business as usual
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists invaded southern Israel, murdered approximately 1,200 people, wounded thousands more, and took 251 men, women and children …
Health
Mount Sinai South Nassau: 5 new operating rooms
Mount Sinai South Nassau has opened five new operating rooms in its Feil Family Pavilion, expanding the hospital’s capacity for advanced surgery and laying the groundwork for an open-heart surgery …
politics + education
Hochul joins yeshiva-aiding federal program
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who earlier said that she intended to opt the state into President Donald Trump’s federal tax-credit program for education, said on Friday, after program details were released, …
testimony
‘Lucky to be alive and I’m grateful,’ says former hostage
“It was unbearable to watch someone you love being beaten and be unable to say a word. You don’t know if they’re going to kill her,” Aviva Siegel, a former hostage in Gaza, told JNS. …
Media Bias
The case against The New York Times: Shareholders say newspaper betrayed its mission and its employees
This is the full text of the lawsuit filed on Sept. 23 by the State Board of Administration of Florid, on behalf of the Florida Retirement …
Jeffrey Lax
Mamdani’s make-believe war on Jew-hate
Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out a plan to fight antisemitism that never names Zionism and refuses to define anti-Jewish hate. City Hall wants applause for quoting the Talmud and spreading security …
Rabbi Steven Burg
Divide and conquer: Mamdani wants 2 kinds of Jews
When Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his strategy to combat antisemitism, media coverage stated that Jewish leaders were divided over it. I understand the headline, but I see something else at …
Ben Cohen
Oct 7 lessons: Never forget. Never forgive.
In his ferocious missive “J’accuse!” published at the height of the Dreyfus Affair in 1898, the great French writer Émile Zola scorned the “hunting of the ‘dirty’ Jews, which dishonors …
health
At Parker workshop, seniors warned about scams
Older adults are increasingly being targeted by scammers who use trust, urgency and technology to pressure victims into giving up money or personal information, experts warned at a recent workshop at …
politics + antisemitism
United Kingdom leftist parties vie over who hates Israel more
Almost two weeks after Britain’s Labour government announced a boycott of Israeli products from Judea and Samaria, another UK left-wing party, the Greens, on Sunday passed a resolution calling …
kosher kitchen
Welcoming fall with fresh greens and herbs
We look forward to the holidays with such joy and excitement — but by the time they are over, many of us have prepared so much food that we are ready for a break from all the special holiday …
Gaza War + Health
Oct. 7 ‘trauma objects’ are witnesses to history
Jonathan Tobin
Our vacation from Jewish history is now over
This week in Torah
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Babel’s tower: A story of heaven and earth
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Discovering the ‘easy spirituality’ within Noach
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Beautiful rainbow connection in Parshat Noach
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Even in times of grief, there’s a time to dance
Bitting the feeding hand: Noach and the lion
So you thought you knew the famous biblical story of Noach and the ark, right? Well, there is a little-known vignette most people don’t know about and is not in the story we usually tell our …
Melanie Phillips
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The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West
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Alarm bells sound as New York falls of a cliff
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The global reach of a renewed war in Gaza
Diplomatic efforts to end the regional war launched by Hamas with its Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel have now returned to the place where it all started. Last week, the Board of Peace, the …
Ben Cohen
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Mamdani's deceit in the struggle against antisemitism
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Amid rising Jew-hatred, Britain targets Israel
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Oct 7 lessons: Never forget. Never forgive.
In his ferocious missive “J’accuse!” published at the height of the Dreyfus Affair in 1898, the great French writer Émile Zola scorned the “hunting of the ‘dirty’ Jews, which dishonors …
Books
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From Brown University, Omer Bartov screams genocide libel
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Rabbi Steinmetz book presents ‘A Proud Jew’
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Dara Horn says American Jews need a new activism
For 80 years, American Jewish activism had a reliable formula: build institutions, tell the story and trust that education would do the rest. It worked well enough for long enough that most American …
On Campus
Here’s what real Jewish leadership looks like
Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder and the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) delivered a decisive, precedent-setting legal victory this week that cuts to the core of how antisemitism is litigated and …
More Opinion Columns
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Time has come for an educational homecoming
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Celebrities endorsed a different ‘Free Palestine’
The rapper Macklemore is not the first cultural celebrity to champion the cause of “Free Palestine.” But when many of America’s leading celebrities called for a “Free Palestine” eighty …
Food: Dining In
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Harvest recipes for post-Sukkah autumn days
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Welcoming fall with fresh greens and herbs
We look forward to the holidays with such joy and excitement — but by the time they are over, many of us have prepared so much food that we are ready for a break from all the special holiday …
Travel
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No longer passing through: Asia anchors Jewish life
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Overcoming challenges, Israelis hit Mount Kilimanjaro
For a group of determined Israelis, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, which rises 5,895 meters (19,341 feet), was only the most recent challenge they have had to overcome. Thirty-six …
Health
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At Parker workshop, seniors warned about scams
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Episcopal Health Services team raises suicide awareness in Far Rockaway
Episcopal Health Services leadership, behavioral health service providers and team members joined patients, community members and members of PFAC — Patient & Family Advisory Committee — in …