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Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) is a news agency and wire service that primarily covers Jewish and Israel-related topics and news. While officially nonpartisan, compared to its larger and older competitor, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, JNS is considered to be more conservative and hawkish. [1]
The wire service was launched in September 2011 with an exclusive U.S. distribution deal with free Israeli daily Israel Hayom. It is published by Russel Pergament and Joshua Katzen. Its editor-in-chief is American journalist Jonathan S. Tobin. [2]
By 2013, JNS was growing quicker, which left-leaning Jewish newspaper The Forward crediting JNS's pro-Israel perspective and cheaper price point compared to its much larger and older competitor, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), which is considered the "Associated Press of Jewish media". The wire employed five staff members. Approximately 40 new outlets used JNS, compared to 88 outlets using JTA. Subscribers to JNS paid between $400 to $700 per month, with the first year free, for access to the wire service. [2] In 2015, JNS had between 40 and 55 newspapers, with a third in the free trial period. [3]
The editor-in-chief until 2016 was Jacob Kamaras. [4]
JNS won its first two Rockower Awards in 2019. [5] Since then it has won awards each year as of 2024. [6]
JNS has broken stories later reported by Al Jazeera English, [7] the Jewish Telegraphic Agency [8] and the Jewish Journal. [9]
JNS distributed the Dry Bones comic strip previously carried by the Jerusalem Post . [10]
In 2015, The Forward described JNS as focusing heavily on Israeli security threats. Frequent columnists Ben Cohen and Stephen M. Flatow wrote often against the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Obama administration more generally, and the JNS board included Middle East Forum president and pro-Israel hawk Daniel Pipes and neoconservative Harvard professor Ruth Wisse. [3]
JNS's publisher Russel Pergament described the wire service as a "nonpartisan, objective, straight down the middle newswire with no axe to grind except one: to see that Israel gets a fair shake in the news." [2] "There are some editors who do not want to upset their readers so they’ll publish a JNS news brief about someone in Israel inventing a new flavor of ice cream, but they won’t run anything that’s kind of scary," he told the Jewish Press. [11]
The Forward , a progressive media outlet, stated JNS was not overty ideological, but it has has been described as conservative, [12] right-leaning, [10] [2] and more hawkish than the JTA. According to Rick Kestenbaum of the American Jewish Press Association, editors of Jewish media outlets are aware of JNS's ideology and difference from JTA. [3]
The Adelson Foundation was JNS's largest single funder of JNS as of 2015, contributing over $1.2 million between 2013 and 2015. [3] [13] In 2015, Adam Milstein donated $12,500. [14] In 2020, JNS's largest single donor was Sheldon Adelson. [15]
The Jewish News Syndicate, a news outlet predominantly focused on Israel and the Jewish world, first reported that the United States was expected to renew the waivers, citing two sources familiar with the decision.
The course, taught by Thomas Abowd, a faculty member in the American Studies program, was first reported by Jewish News Syndicate.
First reported by Jewish News Syndicate on August 2, the drafted ESMC would require students to study pro-BDS figures like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Women's March, Inc. leader Linda Sarsour, and features songs that provide odes to "Free Palestine."
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