‘We’ll have to pass,’ UN officials say when asked for any positive message about Israel amid holiday season; First time lighting candles on Chanukah at home ‘very emotional, very meaningful,’ Booker says

 

The Daily Syndicate   Thursday, December 18, 2025

US imposes sanctions on two ICC judges over Israel probe   “These individuals have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel's consent, including voting with the majority in favor of the ICC’s ruling against Israel’s appeal on Dec. 15,” Marco Rubio said.   JNS Staff       ‘We’ll have to pass,’ UN officials say when asked for any positive message about Israel amid holiday season   “That says more about the U.N. than it does about Israel,” the Israeli ambassador to the global body in New York told JNS.   Mike Wagenheim       First time lighting candles on Chanukah at home ‘very emotional, very meaningful,’ Booker says   Now that the senator is married to a Jewish woman, with whom he hopes to have Jewish children, fighting antisemitism has taken on “an even deeper, more personal sense of urgency,” he told JNS.   Jonathan D. Salant           latest news         Israel will ‘deal with Hamas’ if it won’t disarm, Sa’ar says   JNS Staff       Israeli education leaders visit NYC to learn how to teach Jewish identity   Debra Nussbaum Cohen       Treasury sanctions 29 vessels in Iran’s ‘shadow fleet’ used to transport illicit petroleum   Mike Wagenheim       Seattle man charged with hate crime over voicemail threats to synagogue   Jessica Russak-Hoffman       US, partner operations in Syria ‘critical’ in fight against ISIS         South Carolina man charged with threats to ‘commit a mass shooting,’ target Jews   JNS Staff       Ben Shapiro urges Heritage Foundation to break with Tucker Carlson         Financial tech company settles with Treasury over Iran sanctions violations   Mike Wagenheim       Israel kills Hezbollah terrorist, strikes terror targets across Lebanon   JNS Staff       Herzog, Pope Leo discuss antisemitism amid Bondi massacre   JNS Staff       IDF chief: Israel’s home front its ‘source of strength’   JNS Staff       Seven men detained near Bondi Beach after tip: report   Canaan Lidor           opinion     Melanie Phillips   The global intifada   The time for platitudes is over. What’s needed is zero tolerance of Islamic extremism and anti-Zionism.       Phillip Gordon   The light answers   Chanukah is, by design, a public declaration. And at times like these, it can become a declaration of resolve.       Ronn Torossian Ze’ev Jabotinsky warned us         Yisrael Medad Mamdani goes to Satmar … and other Chanukah stories         Habtom Ghebrezghiabher African Union chair condemns terror, though institutional antisemitism persists

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