September 11

‘You are standing today’: A Jewish lesson for America, 25 years after 9/11

As we approach the 25th anniversary of that terrible day, this week’s haftarah (Isaiah 61:10-63:9) offers a powerful perspective on destruction, rebuilding, and memory.

 THE TWIN Towers burn
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani enters for a press conference to ask for the release of Federal Counterterrorism Funding in New York City, US, September 1, 2026.

Mamdani says 9/11 docs should be released to the public, ahead of 25th anniversary of terror attack

Candace Owens speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Detroit, Michigan, June, 14, 2024; illustrative.

Political language has become a weapon against the truth and Israel - opinion

: FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before a Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, May 12, 2026.

The FBI must prevent Iran’s covert war from reaching US soil - opinion


9/11: Survivor's story awakens feelings

This year in the midst of coronavirus and my personal agony I also lived through the testament of a 9/11 survivor, which I have read and reread a few times.

Gazing out at the altered skyline from a perch in Brooklyn, August 14

After 18 years of war, Taliban gets US to leave

NATO has welcomed the new Taliban agreement, noting that it is between the US and the "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and between the US and the Taliban."

Taliban chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (front) leaves after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019

UK school textbook asks how creation of Israel was cause of 9/11 attacks

Publisher acknowledges problem, withdraws book from sale

An empty classroom (illustrative).

Jersey City’s Jewish mayor dedicated life to public service after 9/11

A grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Fulop grew up working in his father's deli after school. After 9/11, he quit his job at Goldman Sachs to serve in the Marines.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (left) in 2013 while running for elections.

Journalists present at ground zero after 9/11 are getting cancer

Two spoke to CNN to tell other victims that compensation and treatment are available. One said that, while getting the story, you don't think that years later, "you're going to end up dying from it."

Am American flag flies near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001. Planes crashed into each of the two towers, causing them to collapse

Jordanian columnist claims 9/11 planned by U.S. to benefit Israel

Abd Al-Hamid Al-Hamshari wrote that since September 11, the US has brought chaos upon the Middle East region, claiming that the America created Al-Qaeda and ISIS to serve the interests of Israel.

Second tower of the World Trade Center bursting into flames after being hit by an airplane in New York on September 11, 2001

Israeli families commemorate loved ones lost on 9/11

The annual ceremony is held at the 9/11 Living Memorial Monument in Jerusalem.

Second tower of the World Trade Center bursting into flames after being hit by an airplane in New York on September 11, 2001

Eighteen years on, US mourns 9/11 victims

President Donald Trump is expected to join the memorial at the Pentagon, while VP Mike Pence is scheduled to speak at a ceremony in Pennsylvania.

Officers cary an American flag into ceremonies commemorating the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the 911 Memorial in lower Manhattan in New York, U.S., September 11, 2019

New book records harrowing stories of witnesses, officials in 9/11 attacks

The vice president gave permission to shoot down an identified hijacked commercial aircraft. "Having seen what had happened in NY and the Pentagon, you really didn’t have any choice," he explained.

Vice President Cheney with Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin in the President's Emergency Operations Center on September 11, 2001

NY gov legislates moment of silence in public schools commemorating 9/11

The law aims "to encourage dialogue and education in the classroom, and to ensure future generations have an understanding of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks and their place in history."

A group of firefighters stand in the street near the destroyed World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.