Steve Linde

4 days ago | jns.org | Steve Linde

(May 11, 2025 / JNS)Amid what she describes as “a siege on Jews and Israel on every front,” Dr. Elana Yael Heideman, CEO of the Israel Forever Foundation (IFF), has invited the international community to join together in solidarity with Israel on May 14, Israel’s Declaration Day. Asked what her message is, after more than 19 months of war since the Hamas assault on Oct.

1 week ago | jns.org | Steve Linde

(May 5, 2025 / JNS)Some two months before the opening of the Maccabiah 2025, the live draw for group ball sports with multiple groups—football, basketball, 3×3 basketball, and futsal—was held on May 4. Teams participating in other group ball sports such as ice hockey, rugby, baseball, beach soccer and beach volleyball were also featured.

1 week ago | jwire.com.au | Steve Linde

Browse > Home / Featured Articles / South Africa’s Chief Rabbi urges ‘reset’ in Israel ties – J-Wire Read on for article In an address at the Israeli Embassy’s Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Pretoria on April 29, South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein called for “a reset of the relationship” between Israel and South Africa.

1 week ago | jns.org | Steve Linde

(May 2, 2025 / JNS)In an address at the Israeli Embassy’s Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Pretoria on April 30, South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein called for “a reset of the relationship” between Israel and South Africa. Goldstein said: “On this Yom Hazikaron at the Israeli Embassy, I think it is appropriate to say it is time for the South African government, this Government of National Unity, to send an ambassador to Israel. It is time for Israel to send its ambassador back to South Africa.

3 weeks ago | thejewishstar.com | Steve Linde

Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose iconic daily cartoons were distributed by JNS over the last several years, died at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba last week after a lengthy illness at 87. After making aliyah in 1971, the Brooklyn-born Kirschen began sketching his trademark “Dry Bones” in 1973. The cartoon was internationally syndicated and published in the Jerusalem Post for 50 years. He was also a pioneer creator of animated computer games.