Rafi Goldmeier has been living in Israel for 34 years, with his wife and kids, three of whom are participating actively in the war efforts.
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We are a resilient people. We have survived thousands of years with a lot of hatred and evil directed at us over the generations. All we can do is trust that as a nation we will get through this. By hook or by crook.
This isn’t a novel set during a five-year period or within the context of a war, some pogroms, or even a specific historical event. It takes place within a span of nearly 200 years – That is a lot of Jewish and German/Prussian and British and Israeli history to research.
The government is renewing a law exempting shmitta-observant farmers from arnona payments.
There is going to be a march in Bet Shemesh, protesting that charedi soldiers are being harassed.
Abutbol's city government does everything it can to avoid helping schools that are not the mainstream Haredi.
They are arguing specifically about summer camps, but the arguments apply to all the differences between them.
This past Friday afternoon we took a short break from Shabbos preparation to do a short tiyu.
Sure enough, the mayoral challenger's song was quick to draw criticism from his opponents and detractors.
Lipman's proposal was crafted in coordination with Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau.
As soon as he stepped out of the country, he was officially AWOL.
The Catholic Church was behind nearly two thousand years of antisemitism and murder of Jews.
The conference was in part a commemoration of Rav Herzog.
The proposal is facing secular opposition.
The Speaker of the House does not think the idea of installing a Christmas tree is appropriate.
Netanya City Hall says that the new program will not be in a new, separate, building.
The Rabbanut is going out on an initiative to prevent stores from staying open past the entry of Shabbos.
Any apartment that sits empty for 9 months out of the year will be taxed double the normal rates.
I wonder in what way they were being "more machmir" when making grape juice...
The halachic position of such downloads has been debatable until now.
The proposal is to teach the Rabbanut a lesson in customer service and customer retention.



