Shoshy Ciment is a student journalist based in Midtown Manhattan and is currently the senior news editor at the YU Commentator. You can follow her on twitter at @ShoshanaCiment.
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In Jewish culture, art often takes on a holy purpose. For many Jewish artists, creating is a spiritual experience for them and their audiences.
Chabad received approval from the city in 2008 to build a synagogue but soon began encountering opposition.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, head of the Monsey eruv, opposes the notion that the eruv will facilitate an influx of Jewish residents.
I think most people in society are able to look at modest pictures of women without it eliciting impure thoughts, said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Operational Finale was the code name given by the Mossad to the mission of finding and capturing Eichmann after the Holocaust.
But to Orthodox summer residents, the zoning proposal, with its restrictive laws on building, is an effort to curb the growth of Jewish camps and communities.
The defense claimed Alavi was unaware that Assa had maintained ties to Iran in the years since the U.S. imposed sanctions on Iran in 1995.
Unfortunately, it has become increasingly difficult for people to afford gastrointestinal healthcare.



