Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Tulip Festival at Washington Park, Albany NY. Photographer: Nikolya Sereda

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An Israeli flag on the beach in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2026. Photo courtesy of Miriam Alster/Flash90.

World

Israel & Middle East

Content creator mulls keeping the real Israel in the news in normal times

A content creator asks what advocacy for Israel looks like when there is no crisis, and how to keep showing up without burning out.

Melinda Strauss

Oct 15, 2026

An Israeli flag on the beach in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2026. Photo courtesy of Miriam Alster/Flash90.

World

Israel & Middle East

Content creator mulls keeping the real Israel in the news in normal times

A content creator asks what advocacy for Israel looks like when there is no crisis, and how to keep showing up without burning out.

Melinda Strauss

Oct 15, 2026

An Israeli flag on the beach in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2026. Photo courtesy of Miriam Alster/Flash90.

World

Israel & Middle East

Content creator mulls keeping the real Israel in the news in normal times

A content creator asks what advocacy for Israel looks like when there is no crisis, and how to keep showing up without burning out.

Melinda Strauss

Oct 15, 2026

Representatives of various Israeli political parties participated in the JNS-Yad L’Olim English-language election debate ahead of the Oct. 27 elections on Oct. 11, 2026. Photo courtesy of JNS.

World

Israel & Middle East

Zionist parties unite against Palestinian state in JNS election debate

Candidates from nine Israeli parties met in an English-language debate on Gaza, the haredi draft and who should lead after Oct. 27.

Steve Linde

Oct 15, 2026

Representatives of various Israeli political parties participated in the JNS-Yad L’Olim English-language election debate ahead of the Oct. 27 elections on Oct. 11, 2026. Photo courtesy of JNS.

World

Israel & Middle East

Zionist parties unite against Palestinian state in JNS election debate

Candidates from nine Israeli parties met in an English-language debate on Gaza, the haredi draft and who should lead after Oct. 27.

Steve Linde

Oct 15, 2026

Representatives of various Israeli political parties participated in the JNS-Yad L’Olim English-language election debate ahead of the Oct. 27 elections on Oct. 11, 2026. Photo courtesy of JNS.

World

Israel & Middle East

Zionist parties unite against Palestinian state in JNS election debate

Candidates from nine Israeli parties met in an English-language debate on Gaza, the haredi draft and who should lead after Oct. 27.

Steve Linde

Oct 15, 2026

The leader of Britain’s Green Party, Zack Polanski in 2022. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Green Party.

World

Global

UK leftist parties outdo each other’s anti-Israel policies

The Green Party voted to treat Zionism as racism as Labour hardens its stance, leaving British Jews wary of what comes next.

Canaan Lidor

Oct 15, 2026

The leader of Britain’s Green Party, Zack Polanski in 2022. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Green Party.

World

Global

UK leftist parties outdo each other’s anti-Israel policies

The Green Party voted to treat Zionism as racism as Labour hardens its stance, leaving British Jews wary of what comes next.

Canaan Lidor

Oct 15, 2026

The leader of Britain’s Green Party, Zack Polanski in 2022. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Green Party.

World

Global

UK leftist parties outdo each other’s anti-Israel policies

The Green Party voted to treat Zionism as racism as Labour hardens its stance, leaving British Jews wary of what comes next.

Canaan Lidor

Oct 15, 2026

A still from the documentary “Tatami” showing some of the key players in the story.

Culture

Arts & Entertainment

The SJCC Jewish Film Festival to start with ‘Tatami’ on Oct. 17

SJCC’s monthly Jewish Film Festival runs October through April, opening with the Iranian judo documentary “Tatami” on Oct. 17.

The Jewish World

Oct 8, 2026

A still from the documentary “Tatami” showing some of the key players in the story.

Culture

Arts & Entertainment

The SJCC Jewish Film Festival to start with ‘Tatami’ on Oct. 17

SJCC’s monthly Jewish Film Festival runs October through April, opening with the Iranian judo documentary “Tatami” on Oct. 17.

The Jewish World

Oct 8, 2026

A still from the documentary “Tatami” showing some of the key players in the story.

Culture

Arts & Entertainment

The SJCC Jewish Film Festival to start with ‘Tatami’ on Oct. 17

SJCC’s monthly Jewish Film Festival runs October through April, opening with the Iranian judo documentary “Tatami” on Oct. 17.

The Jewish World

Oct 8, 2026

Some of the 115 women making challah at the Bethlehem Chabad “Artisan Mega Challah Bake.”

Local

Community News

Bethlehem Chabad hosts over 100 women in mega challah bake

115 women and girls gathered in Delmar for an Israeli-style evening of food, games, new mitzvah pledges and challah braiding.

Dr. Susie Rosenberg

Oct 8, 2026

Some of the 115 women making challah at the Bethlehem Chabad “Artisan Mega Challah Bake.”

Local

Community News

Bethlehem Chabad hosts over 100 women in mega challah bake

115 women and girls gathered in Delmar for an Israeli-style evening of food, games, new mitzvah pledges and challah braiding.

Dr. Susie Rosenberg

Oct 8, 2026

Some of the 115 women making challah at the Bethlehem Chabad “Artisan Mega Challah Bake.”

Local

Community News

Bethlehem Chabad hosts over 100 women in mega challah bake

115 women and girls gathered in Delmar for an Israeli-style evening of food, games, new mitzvah pledges and challah braiding.

Dr. Susie Rosenberg

Oct 8, 2026

Anat Meir and her son, Shaked, mourn over the grave of Sayeret Matkal soldier David Meir, killed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 at the battle on Kibbutz Be’eri, on the 30th day after his funeral at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

World

Israel & Middle East

‘Life grows around the pain’: Three years after Oct. 7, a widow raises the couple’s son

Three years after her husband was killed on Oct. 7, Anat Meir describes raising their young son Shaked and the grief that remains.

Tania Shalom Michaelian

Oct 8, 2026

Anat Meir and her son, Shaked, mourn over the grave of Sayeret Matkal soldier David Meir, killed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 at the battle on Kibbutz Be’eri, on the 30th day after his funeral at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

World

Israel & Middle East

‘Life grows around the pain’: Three years after Oct. 7, a widow raises the couple’s son

Three years after her husband was killed on Oct. 7, Anat Meir describes raising their young son Shaked and the grief that remains.

Tania Shalom Michaelian

Oct 8, 2026

Anat Meir and her son, Shaked, mourn over the grave of Sayeret Matkal soldier David Meir, killed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 at the battle on Kibbutz Be’eri, on the 30th day after his funeral at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

World

Israel & Middle East

‘Life grows around the pain’: Three years after Oct. 7, a widow raises the couple’s son

Three years after her husband was killed on Oct. 7, Anat Meir describes raising their young son Shaked and the grief that remains.

Tania Shalom Michaelian

Oct 8, 2026

Illustration of the golem and the jinni

Culture

Arts & Entertainment

A golem and a jinni find love on the Lower East Side

Mindy Holland revisits Helene Wecker’s Golem and the Jinni trilogy as its final book, The Gates of Midnight, arrives.

Mindy Holland

Oct 8, 2026

Illustration of the golem and the jinni

Culture

Arts & Entertainment

A golem and a jinni find love on the Lower East Side

Mindy Holland revisits Helene Wecker’s Golem and the Jinni trilogy as its final book, The Gates of Midnight, arrives.

Mindy Holland

Oct 8, 2026

Illustration of the golem and the jinni

Culture

Arts & Entertainment

A golem and a jinni find love on the Lower East Side

Mindy Holland revisits Helene Wecker’s Golem and the Jinni trilogy as its final book, The Gates of Midnight, arrives.

Mindy Holland

Oct 8, 2026

Capt. Ariel Armbrister speaks to a group of IDF officers about her experience defending the Zikim base during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo courtesy of IDF.

World

Israel & Middle East

‘I just needed to function’: IDF officer recalls battle for Zikim on Oct. 7

Capt. Ariel Armbrister, 23, describes the decisions she made at the Zikim base near Gaza as the Hamas attack began.

Josh Hasten

Oct 8, 2026

Capt. Ariel Armbrister speaks to a group of IDF officers about her experience defending the Zikim base during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo courtesy of IDF.

World

Israel & Middle East

‘I just needed to function’: IDF officer recalls battle for Zikim on Oct. 7

Capt. Ariel Armbrister, 23, describes the decisions she made at the Zikim base near Gaza as the Hamas attack began.

Josh Hasten

Oct 8, 2026

Capt. Ariel Armbrister speaks to a group of IDF officers about her experience defending the Zikim base during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo courtesy of IDF.

World

Israel & Middle East

‘I just needed to function’: IDF officer recalls battle for Zikim on Oct. 7

Capt. Ariel Armbrister, 23, describes the decisions she made at the Zikim base near Gaza as the Hamas attack began.

Josh Hasten

Oct 8, 2026

View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Aug. 20, 2026. Photo courtesy of Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

World

Global

Next U.N. leader must clean up anti-Semitism, world Jewish communities tell global body

Seven Jewish communities ask U.N. member states to weigh anti-Semitism when choosing the next secretary-general, who starts Jan. 1.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Aug. 20, 2026. Photo courtesy of Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

World

Global

Next U.N. leader must clean up anti-Semitism, world Jewish communities tell global body

Seven Jewish communities ask U.N. member states to weigh anti-Semitism when choosing the next secretary-general, who starts Jan. 1.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Aug. 20, 2026. Photo courtesy of Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

World

Global

Next U.N. leader must clean up anti-Semitism, world Jewish communities tell global body

Seven Jewish communities ask U.N. member states to weigh anti-Semitism when choosing the next secretary-general, who starts Jan. 1.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

The abandoned Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania, was built on a Jewish cemetery site in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Brian Toward via Creative Commons.

World

Global

Lithuania tells JNS it’ll ‘respect’ Jewish burial site where commercial development was planned

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

The abandoned Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania, was built on a Jewish cemetery site in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Brian Toward via Creative Commons.

World

Global

Lithuania tells JNS it’ll ‘respect’ Jewish burial site where commercial development was planned

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

The abandoned Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania, was built on a Jewish cemetery site in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Brian Toward via Creative Commons.

World

Global

Lithuania tells JNS it’ll ‘respect’ Jewish burial site where commercial development was planned

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

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