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Silverstein’s work has long concerned itself with the intersection between the personal and Jewish Biblical narrative, significantly explored in this column in “Brighton Beach Bible” (July 27, 2009).
Not surprisingly the guardians of synagogue tradition is male dominated in both Moses Abraham, Cantor and Mohel and Synagogue Lamp Lighters.
Panama gave Israel permission to board the vessel being used to smuggle Iranian weapons to Gaza.
By Ben Sales
Saddled with nearly $370 million in debt and an annual deficit exceeding $85 million, Hadassah Hospital struggles to chart a course back to solvency.
By Shalom Bear
The IDF discovered a 4th terror tunnel from Gaza. Watch the video of its discovery.
Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.
Television, film, and stage actor and director Blair Underwood visits the Old City of Jerusalem on March 20, 2014.
Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled the plug on Twitter at midnight, March 20, 2014.
Swastikas, graffiti stating "kill all the Jews," and little kids playing "jail the Jew" in Bedford, Massachusetts.
In all of Tanach, Talmud or Jewish history, Jews go out to defend their country together. There is not one time when Jews were exempt from fighting alongside their brothers because they were learning Torah.
The Mossad has learned that eight of 11 Iranian Jews who tried to immigrate to flee the Islamic regime and move to Israel in the 1990s were murdered, the Office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated Thursday. The families of the missing Iranians have been informed following an investigation into their cases that was ordered […]
While our purpose in this world is to use our free will to choose good, to overcome our tests and challenges, part of that choosing should include a deep wish that we wouldn't even have the ability to sin.
By JTA
Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff said in a prison interview that he does not feel he “betrayed the Jews.” Madoff, 70, is serving a 150-year sentence at the medium-security federal prison in Butner, N.C., for a scheme believed to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history — one that affected a disproportionate number of […]
Is a shomer aveidah considered a shomer chinam or a shomer sachar?
Despite mini-crises over fake passports and Prisoner X, Australia has been one of Israel’s most reliable allies.
By JTA
Robert Strauss, the son of small-town Texas shopkeepers who became an adviser to presidents of both parties, died Wednesday at the age of 95. He helped found in 1945 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, the energy law firm that pioneered powerhouse lobbying after its 1971 move to Washington. Strauss, whose parents ran a general […]
What would have been the reaction if the actor dressed up as KKK members, just for the sake if history?
The thoughts of man, even those of the greatest talmid chacham, cannot fathom the thoughts of the Creator, for many of the Torah laws run counter to human logic.
Hard to imagine, isn’t it, that a political movement supporting economic boycotts of your own country might rain down condemnation on you within your own country.
The ritual of kashrut may help us become more conscious of our responsibilities to live ethical lives.
Stable banking systems: by design or by default?
Norway’s health minister said Wednesday the countryman no intention of banning religious circumcisions but should restrict the religious practice to be carried out only in hospitals. "If the children are circumcised in hospitals by competent personnel, we will prevent complications," Health Minister Bent Høie told the Aftenposten newspaper. "This is the most realistic way to […]
By Dov Shurin
Boundless love was something Rav Kook had for the nation of Israel. Just as one cannot question the boundless love of Hashem for Israel, one cannot question the boundless love of a Torah giant for his people.
By dvora
I insisted that one decoration, a dancing sevivon (dreidel) man, remain hanging in recognition of the chag. Some in my family questioned the appropriateness of this decision. Was it proper to have decorations hanging in what would soon become a house of shiva?
How do you say “annihilate Israel with a nuclear bomb” in Persian?
Why does the Jewish leap year always consist of two Adars? Why specifically Adar? Menachem (Via E-Mail)
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
Full Or Abridged? ‘One Is Obligated To Recite Hallel’ (Sukkah 48a)
That second verse in Vayikra (9:23) tells us that Moshe and Aharon entered the Ohel Moed, and upon exiting they jointly blessed the people.
By JTA
The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of Mazsihisz, the Association of Hungarian […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
President Peres began with the traditional greeting in Persian and said, "Iraniane Gerami, Novruzetan Piruz Bad".
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The course was designed to boost Ultra-Orthodox youth motivation to enlist, and allay religious concerns.
The inevitable failure of the "peace talks" alreasy are exploding in Israel's collective face.
Question: In the Amidah, the phrase “Mashiv HaRuach” concludes in some siddurim with the words “umorid ha’geshem” (with a segol under the gimmel) and in other siddurim with the words “umorid ha’gashem” (with a kamatz under the gimmel). What is the practical difference between these two readings?
"We're hosting a sheva berachos tonight for my niece," Mrs. Kohn replied. "I'm already late! I don't even have a minute to take my projector to the office. Would you mind keeping it overnight in your office?"
From the standpoint of the Arabs, Jews indeed are guilty of incitement so long as Israel exists.
The goal of Harvard Israel Trek is to create informed, committed campus advocates. Does it?
To remind us of this, Hashem gave us a permanent reminder of our uniqueness – the mitzvah of milah.
Rabi Pinchas’ piety and honesty were known far and wide. He would often say, “Even though our Sages (Yevamot 65b) declared that to preserve the peace, a person may change his words to fit the situation, I will never utter a false word regardless of the consequences.” If he heard that one of his followers had uttered a false word, he would expel him from his presence.
The Ritvah understands that the kosher signs are not just “signs” indicating that a fish is kosher; rather, they are what actually render the fish kosher. This may also be applied to the kosher signs of an animal, but the Ritvah does not indicate this.
By JTA
Jewish Toulouse leader tells young Jews to leave France.
DM Ya'alon has a habit of speaking harsh truths. Not everyone likes to hear the truth. It upsets them.
The cynical, and historically and factually inaccurate, view has meant leftists frequently denounce Western democracies as imperialistic, racist, militaristic oppressors.
By Steven Plaut
In 2012, an initiative was begun in the Knesset led by David Rotem (from the Yisrael Beitenu party), to cut the stipends and pensions paid to convicted murderers and terrorists by 50 percent.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
There is much in this episode that is hard to understand, much that has to do with the concept of holiness and the powerful energies it released that, like nuclear power today, could be deadly dangerous if not properly used. But there is also a more human story about two approaches to leadership that still resonates with us today.
I attended the recent Shabboton for frum divorced people and listened to your talk. You gave me hope to go on. I was very despondent when I came and went home considerably more upbeat. It was all due to your focus on “being a blessing.”
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Bikur Cholim - visiting sick people, is considered a big Mitzvah in Judaism. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yaalon made a Bikur Cholim visit on Wednesday to the four soldiers wounded on the Golan Heights when their jeep was attacked along the Syrian border. One of the soldiers (not pictured) is in very bad […]
By JTA
An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man was not released in accordance with German privacy laws. He is accused of serving as a medic at the concentration camp in September 1944. Eight transports arrived at Auschwitz during […]
President Obama has an unshakeable and eternal bond with himself.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose” – Janis Joplin.
Hillel International Board Chair: rabbi who quit made 'false, outrageous' claims about Hillel's Israel Guidelines.
"The three of us survived the war only because of my father's ingenuity and guts."
By JTA
The Chabad Jewish Center in Boca Raton, Fla., was vandalized a day after an article in a local newspaper announced the center’s expansion plans. A cement marker with a sign indicating the rabbi’s parking space was torn from its place and thrown through a glass door of the Jewish center sometime Monday night, the Sun-Sentinel […]
Testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Kerry said: “I think it's a mistake for some people to be raising it again and again as the critical decider of their attitude toward the possibility of a state, and peace, and we’ve obviously made that clear.”
The Jewish Press supported the “Orthodox Hebrew” standard since it at least purported to provide protection for the entire kashrut-observant community while a non-Orthodox standard would be misleading to the Orthodox. The courts, however, ruled otherwise and invalidated the Orthodox Hebrew standard as the prerequisite for referring to food as kosher.
If the Boycott Israel movement has any intellectual honesty, which it doesn’t, let’s see it tackle Whirlpool subsidiary KitchenAid.
In the first part of this week's podcast, Diane Coyle, professor of economics at Manchester University and author of GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History and The Economics of Enough, talks about measuring economic progress. What is the GDP (gross domestic product), and is it really an accurate benchmark for understanding economic performance? Find out […]
Rabbi Hammer recently spoke with The Jewish Press about his new book, Derash Yehonatan: Around the Year with Rav Yehonatan Eybeshitz (Koren), and his work in teaching Torah to secular Israelis.
By Sybil Kaplan
While critics lament the lack of haredi integration into both the military and the Israeli workforce, Beit Shemesh, located 20 miles west of Jerusalem with a population of 100,000, is home to innovators like Rabbi Joel Padowitz, whose ventures have a direct relationship with the haredi community.
Vandals scrawled a swastika and a Jewish Star of David on one of 16 fiberglass "sunfish” that were placed throughout the British city of Plymouth this week to celebrate the city’s young artists, the Plymouth Herald reported. The sculptures were unveiled at the start of National Apprentices Week and were placed to create a tourist […]
I can testify from experience, however, that despite such experience and/or training, top-tier leaders often begin their tasks unprepared for the rigors of their new position, particularly when the experience and training focused on instructional leadership (such as classroom observation and curriculum) rather than organizational stewardship and management.
According to Arab and Israeli media sources, Abbas steadfastly demanded that the White House prod Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into releasing convicted killers Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat. He also reportedly insisted that Israel freeze all settlement construction activities in exchange for extending the peace talks until the end of the year.
By JTA
Gisela Kohn Dollinger tricked death twice.
By Sean Savage
Despite the massive humanitarian toll and the use of chemical weapons against his own people, over the past year Assad has seen his fortunes improve as Western and Arab countries, unsuccessful in ending the conflict diplomatically, have been unwilling to directly intervene.
Obama’s crew did not even say “boo" when the Palestinian Authority endorsed this week a video-song mocking John Kerry.
Israel soldiers killed a 15-year-old boy who was attempting to damage the security fence south of Hebron Wednesday and refused to heed soldier'warnings to halt. Palestinian Authority media came up with a new idea for the youth’s approaching the security fence. In Gaza, the suspects usually are described by Arab media as playing soccer or […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The scene of Russian troops sealing the region of Crimea conjures up scary reminders of the Nazi invasions of Europe.
It's not a Zamboni, but it is smoothing the ice in Jerusalem's new (temporary) ice skating rink at First Station.
The Israeli Navy has been racking up of some big scores lately. Here's a video about one of their top patrol boats.
The local Jerusalem council has approved this morning (Wednesday) the construction of 40 new apartments in Pisgat Ze'ev, and 146 in Har Homa Gimel.
By Shalom Bear
With the 4th round of planned terrrorist releases coming up, Deputy Minister Danon is taking a principled stand.
By Moshe Herman
(((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) Yishai and Malkah kick off this week’s show talking about the Fleisher family’s Purim experience in Jerusalem and Malkah’s efforts putting together the costumes for the family. They move on to talk about attacks on IDF soldiers on both the Lebanese and Syrian borders and how Israel needs to respond […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
IDF Targets Several Syrian Positions in Response to Attack on Israeli Army Jeep.
IDF forces retaliated against several Syrian military sites early Wednesday morning.
By David Morris
The charedim and the Zionists in Beit Shemesh are contemplating a "divorce."
A Jewish trip to learn about Israeli history, culture and politics, ended up paying a visit to arch-terrorist Arafat's grave.
A bomb exploded along Israel's border with Syria, four soldiers were injured, one seriously.
I did not go with the intention of making waves, but when I announced that I was reporting for The Jewish Press, there was no turning back.
The Russian search giant Yandex has bought out Israel’s KitLocate start-up, a maker of low-power mobile geolocation technology, for “several million Euros,” TechCrunch reported Tuesday. KitLocate features low battery consumption by using proprietary algorithms that allow location-based apps to request the device’s geographic coordinates less frequently without losing too much precision. Yandex will use KitlLocate’s […]
Lebanon’s Hezbollah-backed Al Manar satellite network claimed on Tuesday that the bombing of an IDF patrol at the Syrian border was a kidnap attack, but the terrorist organization frequently makes such claims after attacks. Israel has not responded to the report. However, Israeli media reported that soldiers were trying to approach and arrest a suspicious […]
By JTA
A $15,000 reward has been posted for information that will help find Peretz Sontag of Rockland County, New York.
By Lee Bender
Is there no price to pay by the Palestinian Arabs for intransigence and rejection? Or defeat in war?
It was no coincidence when Netanyahu said that the Negev will be a cyber capital and that no rockets will be fired at it.
The subject of President Shimon Peres’s speech at the Sixth Annual Negev Conference in Sderot on Tuesday was not a surprise, but his contrasting a peaceful-seeking nation with one that is isolated says volumes about his view from the Ivory Tower. After his expressing his delight at the Israeli government’s going along for the ride […]
IDF officers carry a soldier who was wounded from an explosion, as he is evacuated to a hospital in Haifa on March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb wounded four Israeli soldiers patrolling the Golan Heights on Tuesday, and Israel retaliated with artillery fire on Syrian army positions. It was not clear who had planted the […]
The Novartis dug company is in advanced talks to buy up Israeli-based stem cell treatments developer Gamida-Cell for $600 million, sources told the Globes business newspaper. Slightly more than half of Gamida-Cell is owned by Clal Biotechnology and Elbit Medical Technologies, a subsidiary of Elbit Imaging. Gamida-Cell has been considering offering an IPO on Wall […]
No stress, but Pesach is less than a month away! Rebbetzin RLZ explains how important it is to do a proper Pesach cleaning.
When you say a cancer-stricken boy smiling and happy, you wonder why anyone complains about anything.
By JTA
Six children from the Haredi Lev Tahor sect who fled Canada will be allowed to remain in Guatemala with their parents, but with conditions, a Guatemalan family court judge ruled Tuesday. The Lev Tahor members from two families can stay in the Central American country, but they must check in with the Canadian embassy within […]
By Batya Medad
Jolie decided she doesn't need her mammary glands and ovaries, we in Israel do not need the United States of America.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Facebook has announced that it has appointed Adi Soffer-Teeni as the company’s CEO in Israel. The current executive chairman of the grammar and spell-checking program Ginger Software, Soffer-Teeni will head Facebook’s commercial operations in Israel and help clients and agencies develop their marketing strategies at the social network. She will focus on building up the […]
By JTA
A Belgian watchdog on anti-Semitism warned it was preparing to take legal action against online propagators of a new anti-Semitic joke about the Holocaust. The Belgian League against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA, issued the threat regarding a photograph of an oven with paper money inside, bearing the caption, “The Jew trap is set.” The photo surfaced […]
The “border with Syria has lately been full of jihad and Hezbollah terrorists, placing us with a new challenge, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Likud party caucus Tuesday. Speaking shortly after a bomb, apparently planted by Hezbollah, exploded at an Israeli patrol and wounded three soldiers, he added, “We have succeeded to maintain quiet […]
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