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Alexei Navalny, left; and Natan Sharansky, right (Wikimedia Commons)

Sharansky on Navalny: Lessons from a dissident

Natan Sharansky — the Russian-Israeli refusenik, author and human rights activist who was imprisoned by the former Soviet Union from 1977 to 1986 — is what you might...

A portrait of Charlie Biton at the start of the Israeli Black Panther movement in 1971. (Courtesy of Meir Wigoder)

Israeli Black Panther . . . Knesset member

It was March, 1971 and Charlie Biton and his friends had recently taken to calling themselves “the Black Panthers” in admiration for the African-American group. The...

MP for Rochdale George Galloway, poses for a photograph outside his campaign headquarters in northern England on March 1, 2024. (Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

Arch anti-Zionist elected to UK parliament

Jewish groups across Britain are alarmed at the election of a veteran anti-Zionist politician, George Galloway, to the UK parliament in the northern town of Rochdale.

The new Workers Party Member of Parliament for Rochdale, In Los Angeles, Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters face off outside a planned speech by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli reservist whose speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was derailed, Feb. 29, 2024. (Jacob Gurvis)

At Berkeley, IDF speaker cancelled amid violence

By Jacob Gurvis LOS ANGELES — As a member of the Israeli military who frequently speaks on Israel’s behalf, Ran Bar-Yoshafat is used to being heckled by anti-Israel...

Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz, left, with US Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House, March 4, 2024. (TPS via White House)

Harris calls for immediate ceasefire; meets with Benny Gantz

Vice President Kamala Harris called for an immediate yet impermanent ceasefire in Gaza, placed the onus on Hamas for holding it up, and placed the onus on Israel for a...

Special Representative Pramila Patten, center, with Israel’s President Herzog, right, and his wife Michal, left, during Patten’s visit to Israel, Jan. 29, 2024. (JNS via X)

UN validates Israel’s reports of sexual violence on Oct. 7

A UN report validated Israeli reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and afterward, including rape.

Mishpacha Children’s Home in Odessa cares for 120 Ukrainian Jewish children whose parents either are dead or cannot care for them. (Mishpacha Chabad Odessa)

Amb. Yevgen: ‘Ukraine and Israel have the same enemies’

Korniychuk Yevgen has been Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel since 2020. Even before Russia’s invasion of his country on Feb. 24, 2022, he argued that Israel is not...

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, speaking on Jan. 9, 2022. (Lev Radin/Shutterstock/JNS)

Rep. Torres unwelcome due to pro-Israel views

Last week, Rep. Ritchie Torres posted two tweets about his Bronx constituents: funding centers for mental health care and public safety on the subway. Sandwiched in...

Three-peat! DJDS Tigers varsity boys are district champs

For the third straight year in a row, the Denver Jewish Day School varsity boys basketball team are district champions.

A tent camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, set up for Palestinians who evacuated from their homes, Jan. 30, 2024. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Israel’s plan for taking Rafah

The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday evening, Feb. 25, presented to Israel’s War Cabinet a plan to evacuate the civilian population from Gaza’s southernmost city of...