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A plume of smoke rises following an explosion in Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.
Israel, US strike Iran
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Trump: Strikes aim to eliminate ‘imminent threats’ from Iran
IDF, US military hit hundreds of targets across Islamic Republic
Magen David reports injuries in Iran missile barrage
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visits the exhibition of achievements of the IRGC Aerospace Force in Tehran, Nov. 19, 2023. Credit: khamenei.ir via Wikimedia Commons.
Israeli official: Khamenei killed in airstrike on Tehran
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Feb. 24, 2026. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.
‘Iran is facing the severe consequences of its evil actions’
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Netanyahu on Iran strikes: ‘We will ensure the eternity of Israel’
Zamir to IAF pilots: ‘You are making history’
Trump spoke with Netanyahu, monitoring from Mar-a-Lago
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s Ruwais Refinery in March 2020. Credit: Rickmaj via Wikimedia Commons.
Iran strikes Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain
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Sa’ar: Cabinet took ‘the only correct decision’ to act against Iran
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Israel warns citizens abroad Iran may try to execute terror attacks
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IAF commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar (center) monitors “Operation Roaring Lion,” Feb. 28, 2026. Credit: IDF.
Historic IAF operation: 200 fighter jets hammer Iran
David Isaac
Yaakov Lappin. Credit: Courtesy.
Analysis
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Israeli military official: Iran has been making ‘extensive efforts’ to rearm
Iran opposition leader calls US-Israel strikes ‘humanitarian’
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Regime change ‘mission impossible,’ Iranian FM says
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Jewish groups back US-Israel strikes on Iran
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony marking the lighting of the first Chanukah candle at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Dec. 14, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Herzog hails Trump’s ‘historic and courageous’ strikes on Iran
Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Israel’s opposition leader: ‘We stand together—we win together’
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A photograph taken from the town of Al Jeer in the northern UAE emirate of Ras Al Khaimah shows a tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Feb. 25, 2026. Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images.
Revolutionary Guards order Hormuz blocked
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An Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jet lands at the Nevatim Airbase near Beersheva in 2024. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Canada, Australia support Iran strikes, EU blames Tehran
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The logo for the IDF’s “Operation Roaring Lion.” Credit: Prime Minister’s Office.
Israel releases logo for ‘Operation Roaring Lion’
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A weapons stockpile found by the IDF in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, Feb. 27, 2026. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Yaakov Lappin. Credit: Courtesy.
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IDF dismantles 5 km of tunnels in northern Gaza
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participates in a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.
US names Iran a state sponsor of wrongful detention
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Hezbollah supporters wave Iranian and Lebanese flags while holding portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally to show their solidarity with Iran, in the southern suburb of Beirut on Jan. 26, 2026. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Jan. 26, that any attack on the group's backer Tehran would also target the militants, and warned that any new war on Iran would ignite the region. Last week, President Donald Trump said a US "armada" was heading toward the Gulf and that Washington was watching Iran closely after a bloody crackdown on protesters. He has appeared to step back from military intervention, but has since insisted it remains an option. Photo by Anwar AMRO/AFP via Getty Images.
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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jonathan S. Tobin. Photo by Tzipora Lifchitz.
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Jack Hughes, No. 86, of Team United States celebrates after a gold-medal win in the men's ice-hockey match between Canada and the United States on day 16 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy, Feb. 22, 2026. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images.
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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a roundtable with energy officials and executives from the oil industry in the East Room of the White House, with conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson (foreground, far right) in attendance, Jan. 9, 2026. Credit: Molly Riley/White House.
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Over 350 scholars tell UC regents to act on report on anti-Israel profs fueling Jew-hatred
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Pennsylvania Girl Scout launches Holocaust Education Patch Program
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A pro-Palestinian protest and pro-Israeli counter-protest at the University of California, Berkeley, on Oct. 25, 2023. Credit: Kefr4000 via Wikimedia Commons.
Americans more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis for first time in Gallup poll
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WWII hero who defied Nazis to save Jewish troops to receive Medal of Honor
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‘Three years away was just too long for us,’ says de Toledo High School, as it resumes Israel exchange
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Mamdani says Columbia student, detained by ICE, freed after ‘productive’ meeting with Trump
Video-game tournament organizer reinstates Jewish pro player after lawsuit
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Israeli soldiers from the 7th Brigade Combat Team who killed four terrorists in eastern Rafah continue clearing the Yellow Line area. Credit: IDF.
IDF slays terrorists exiting tunnel in southern Gaza
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Israel OKs 1,300 homes in Samaria’s Kedumim
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Shimon Sherman. Credit: Courtesy.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi following talks in Jerusalem, Feb. 26, 2026. Photo by Alex Traiman.
Alex Traiman. Credit: Courtesy.
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A poster in Melbourne, Australia, shows Naveed Akram, the 24-year-old shooting suspect in the Dec. 14, 2025 Chanukah massacre on Bondi Beach, February 2026. Credit: Courtesy of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
Australian tribunal rules ‘All Zionists are terrorists’ chant a criminal offense
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PM shares report alleging Bennett funded Arab program rejecting Israel’s right to exist
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The Israeli painter influencing US leaders amid rising antisemitism
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The truth Christian Zionists share about Israel
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How false media narratives spread about Judea and Samaria
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Trump’s Iran nuclear ultimatum and the risk of regional war
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The media fight over Israel that signals a bigger Iran showdown
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The disappearance of Christians in the Middle East
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Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan in 2024. Credit: Student News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.
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Tricia Tuttle, director of the Berlinale. Photo by Udall Evans.
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People visit Lake Urmia in 2015, an endorheic salt lake in the Iranian region of Azerbaijan, near the Armenian border and south of the Caspian Sea, which has been rapidly drying up over the years. Credit: Solmaz Daryani via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk side by side, observing soldiers at Ben Gurion Airport, Feb. 25, 2026. Matt Kaminsky/JNS.
Israel Kasnett. Credit: Courtesy.
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Modi’s visit highlights deepening bond, ‘hexagon’ vision
Palestinian Authority police officers on duty during a visit by P.A. head Mahmoud Abbas to Jenin on July 12, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Yaakov Lappin. Credit: Courtesy.
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Will Israel be able to screen future Gazan police officers?
A U.S. Navy officer walks past F-18 fighter jets parked on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS “Abraham Lincoln” during a media tour in Port Klang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Nov. 26, 2024. Photo by Fazry Ismail/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.
Shimon Sherman. Credit: Courtesy.
Analysis
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Explainer: US military buildup and scenarios for war with Iran
A view inside a Hamas tunnel the IDF uncovered in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, published by the military on Feb. 19, 2026. Credit: IDF.
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Board of Peace convenes as Hamas violates ceasefire

SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the Capitol, Washington, D.C., Feb. 24, 2026. Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images.
Ruthie Blum. Credit: Courtesy.
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Ruthie Blum
The US and Israeli left’s parallel ‘own goal’
Palestinians gather outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after an Israeli airstrike on Jan. 31, 2026. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Melanie Phillips. Credit: Courtesy.
column
Melanie Phillips
The crumbling wall of Hamas propaganda
People take cover from incoming missiles fired from Iran at an undergoing train station in Tel Aviv, Feb. 28. 2026. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Fiamma Nirenstein. Credit: Courtesy.
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A turning point in the world

OPINION

Points of view from across the Jewish world
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Karin Yaniv. Credit: Courtesy.
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Karin Yaniv
My union protects immigrants? Israelis know better 
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Rabbi Avi Weiss
‘I am somebody. You are somebody’
Eyal Fruchter. Credit: Courtesty.
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Eyal Fruchter
Israel stays steady amid fear of war
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David Christopher Kaufman
Examining the state of black-Jewish relations in America
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Israel Ellis
The reckoning of the Islamic Republic
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Sarah Idan
Boller: Courageous critic or anti-Israel opportunist?
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opinion
Daniel Rosen
Use ‘Zionophobia’
Rabbi Leo Dee. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Rabbi Leo Dee
Mordechai’s Persian asthma test
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Amine Ayoub. Credit: Courtesy.
opinion
Amine Ayoub
The death of ‘shared values’: Why the new American realism is better for Israel
To the post-woke Zionist, Israel is not a client state meant to project Western liberal sensibilities in the Levant. It is the frontline trench in a broader war against mutual enemies.
French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon (center) with fellow parliamentarian Éric Coquerel, Sept. 21, 2017. Credit: Drutchy2017 via Wikimedia Commons.
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
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In France, the far left replaces the far right as pariah No. 1
For French Jews, the largest of Western Europe’s Jewish communities, the threat posed by the extremes has always been palpable.
David Wurmser. Credit: Courtesy.
opinion
David Wurmser
Let Israel start, and let the Iranians win
Mitchell Bard
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Mitchell Bard
‘NYT’ discovers anti-Israel curricula
Kenneth Brander. Credit: Courtesy.
opinion
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander
Unmasking Israel’s mental-health crisis
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opinion
Alona Shaked
When student safety is not hypothetical
Jack Simony. Credit: Courtesy.
opinion
Jack Simony
What do we teach our kids after Oct. 7?
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opinion
Benjamin Proler, Brandon L. Simmons
College education, minus the hatred
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Princeton invites pseudo-scholar to teach course
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Michael Masters
Domestic vigilance as Mideast roils

JNS WIRE

Press releases from around the Jewish world
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The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS ”Abraham Lincoln” during a strait transit exercise in the Atlantic Ocean, Jan. 30, 2019. Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Clint Davis/U.S. Navy.
Wire
Lies spread faster than truth: Iran, Qatar, Hamas and Tucker Carlson
Anti-American and anti-Israel narratives do not spread in isolation. They move through state-funded media, platforms and people presenting themselves as credible.
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Members of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces New York tristate real estate affinity group inaugurates a brand-new Sportsplex at Re’im base in southern Israel near the Gaza border, Feb. 24, 2026. Credit: Courtesy of FIDF.
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IDF Re’im base sports center reopens after $7 million-plus restoration
The Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2020, left many of the base’s operational, social, welfare and religious centers unusable.
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Association for Israel’s Soldiers
Henry Chodos, a sixth-grader from Vancouver Talmud Torah, was crowned the winner of ADI’s sixth-annual “Make the Change Challenge” and received the $1,000 grand prize, a gift from the Avraham and Esther Klein Young Entrepreneurs Fund. Credit: Courtesy.
Wire
Student’s next-gen orthotic walks away with #JDAIM STEM design contest trophy
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ADI
Local community members gathered at Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston for a photography exhibit on the State of Israel and the Shalva organization. Credit: Courtesy of Shalva.
Wire
Photography exhibit connects life in Israel with heart of Shalva
Rabbi Kalman Samuels: “Our eyes are turned toward the future, with a deep commitment to provide assistance to every person who needs us.”
Shalva
At Camp Harlam Jewish summer camp in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. Photo by Jennifer Lee Photography.
Wire
URJ Camp Harlam awarded $400,000 grant to expand its Avodah program
The program will expand from a single cohort with limited enrollment to two or more cohorts, increasing the camp’s ability to offer flexible lengths of stay.
Union for Reform Judaism,
Camp Harlam
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