יום שבת, כ״ו תמוז תשפ״וSaturday, July 11, 2026
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At a pace of about once every two weeks, we thwart a specific terror attack somewhere in the world. So people tend to be thankful about that.
How did a teenage Torah genius, armed only with the Word of God, survive so many near-death experiences?
By Ayala Young
Unable to find employment, Irena could not afford to feed her children every day, so they became sickly and malnourished.
I liked the promise of a new future, but I didn’t understand why it had to be anti-Zionist or anti-Jewish.
By Sara Lehmann
I understood that if I don’t get involved to represent the younger generation and fight for what we believe in, no one will do it instead of us.
It’s scandalous. Purim is supposed to be a celebration of kabalas haTorah, accepting the Torah.
As a result of the Arafat scandal, a congressional committee commissioned a study of the museum’s management.
At that point, I think I did go into some kind of emotional depression. I lost the way I connected to God. It’s something I didn’t realize I lost until I found it again, living here in Israel.
Britain was so undermanned and under-armed at this point that a Jewish army of 50,000-100,000 soldiers could have made a significant military impact.
It is a beautiful tribute to his memory that their deepest memories are of him learning and teaching Torah. And that truly was his life.
When did this helpless feeling change for you?
By Rhona Lewis
As the political situation in the neighboring Arab countries grew more precarious, Jews from Iran, Iraq and Syria began making their way to Lebanon.
You have to be willing to start over when things aren’t working out. Sometimes it’s physically starting over and sometimes it’s a mental thing.
In an exclusive interview with the Jewish Press, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely explained that donor nations should condition their funding to UNRWA based upon a reform in the school curriculum. MK Dr. Anat Berko argued that UNRWA is beyond reform.
By Sandy Eller
I want to be able to appeal to kids across the board.
If the best laid plans fail, what about the poorly considered?
I want to be very clear, though: Almost everybody holds that even if a kohen can attend medical or dental school, he cannot participate in any way shape or form in the actual dissection of a dead body.
Mingled with laughter came the tears as she described the terrifying fear she endured every month before she opened the envelope with her latest test results.
By Ann Goldberg
When your yardstick for measuring pain and discomfort is the Holocaust, it’s difficult to get too upset about life’s minor problems – and that’s what they are.
By Rhona Lewis
I wanted to try and begin to understand the unfathomable: How did such evil come about?
And what about the Jewish singles themselves? What are they doing to help alleviate the painful problem of not having found their soulmate?
By Sandy Eller
Having had grandparents who were the rav and rebbetzin in Great Neck and in-laws who served in those roles in Montreal, the ideas of mission and contribution resonate very strongly with me.
Who knew that a little bit of ice cream could go so far?
Jordan River Village is Israel's only free, year-round, overnight program for children living with life-limiting conditions (serious diseases, chronic illnesses, genetic conditions, special needs).
By Rhona Lewis
Only after Perrie has extracted my entire family history does she begin to share her own story.
Tehillim 118:17 – I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of God.
While critiquing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic, attacking it with disproportionate venom – as many regularly do – almost certainly is.
I don’t believe in too much grief. Hashem gives, and He can take away, Risa explained.
If only we would realize that every smack we receive is a gift in disguise, we would embrace those moments of challenge and cherish them.
The yeshiva rents apartments for the boys in the city so that they are also live among the secular citizens.
Today she lives with her husband in Brooklyn and has finally found her comfort spot, religious-wise.
By Rhona Lewis
Kfar Kedem offers a variety of activies to serve as a link between the past and the present.
People want to know about their Jewish identity. And I don’t think you can have a Jewish democratic state without Judaism. It won’t work.
We want to bring Jewish female artists and audiences together.
By Sara Lehmann
The program really changed my life. I come from a good, religious home, but I like to do my own thing. For the first time, I met teachers I identified with and who guided me.
People thought of her as this soft America girl. So she worked harder than anybody on the kibbutz – until her hands were rough and practically bleeding – to show her dedication.
By Rhona Lewis
Breslov chassidus is well-known for its focus on hisbodedus, solitary contemplation. For Yehoshua this means sometimes going into the forest to paint.
And just as he had for so many other souls, Shlomo awakened in Neil "some spark of lost Jewishness."
By Sara Lehmann
There were hundreds of thousands of people wounded and all of them needed our care. We felt our mission was to restore hope for the people of Haiti.
I think Gymies’ success and the opening of the Space has to do with a worldwide trend toward leading a more wholesome life.
He knew what happened in the Holocaust, and he didn’t want to see Israel [destroyed].
Israel’s fighter pilots shot down 24 hostile airplanes in air-to-air combat during the war without losing one.
By Doria Kahn
He wants to ensure that commentators and modern scholars are in agreement regarding the identification of any given animal.
They could send and receive mail in the concentration camps but not in the death camps.
The Jewish Press: In addition to your weekly Jewish Press columns on Talmud and Choshen Mishpat, you’ve written two books – Ner Eyal 1: A Guide to the Laws of Shabbat and Festivals in Seder Moed and, most recently, Ner Eyal 2: A Guide to Seder Nashim, Nezikin, Kodashim, Taharot and Zera’im. What motivated you […]
My goal is to strive to create safe healing space for strong women to support others.
With a few exceptions, I really did not count shtiebels, yeshivas, or shuls in a storefront or someone’s home.
She doesn't want to talk about how she suffered in the Holocaust; she wants to tell me of her heroic act.
Today it seems strange, but in those days, the 1950s, even rabbis didn’t always go around England with yarmulkes on.
Living in the Holy Land inspired them to rethink the way they were keeping Hashem's mitzvos.
In Jewish culture, art often takes on a holy purpose. For many Jewish artists, creating is a spiritual experience for them and their audiences.
NCSY opened my eyes to a deep and exciting Judaism that simply nothing else could rival.
By Rhona Lewis
I had no control over what happened to me that day, but I do have control over how I live my life going forward.
The communication methods of the Deafblind community are as varied as the individuals themselves.
By Rhona Lewis
Rarely successful in the classroom, Simcha used his brilliant mind to teach himself anything he was interested in.
You want the prisoner to think, "These guys already know a lot about our forces, so what harm is there in me telling them a little bit more?"
Each montage is profoundly different, reflecting the vastly distinctive experiences of the Jewish people.
Omitting imaginary books like How Jewish Unity Became a Reality During the 21st Century, I think I’d really like to read the definitive epic saga of the teshuvah movement of the second half of the twentieth century.
By Sara Lehmann
The good news is that we are going to shatter all safety records in Brooklyn in 2017, in ways the naysayers said couldn’t be done.
A profile of the man Police hope will unwillingly take down Prime Minister Netanyahu.
By B. Gordon
Known for his images of common street life, Vishniac displayed his early talents in the snapshots he took on the streets of Berlin.
Never refusing an assignment, Suzanne walked all over the city of Paris in an effort to find a hospital willing to risk treating Jews in hiding who needed urgent medical attention.
The Reform movement says pluralistic prayer is a Jewish value, but how can they claim to represent Jewish values when they don’t represent Judaism?
Lehrhaus emerged as the brainchild of young scholars and writers who sought to fill a void in contemporary Orthodox discourse.
By dvora
How can we effectively treat chronic pain, without putting the lives, souls, and potential of those suffering from it at risk in the process?
Roland and the NYU team that accompanied him trained the surgeons at Shaare Zedek Medical Center to do this procedure well so that next time they can operate autonomously.
There are around 100,000 Israelis here. We call it the second Israel. There are chummus shops and falafel shops – you feel very much at home. It’s like a huge kibbutz.
Unfortunately, it has become increasingly difficult for people to afford gastrointestinal healthcare.
We regard it as a chillul Hashem when liberal rabbis offer opinions in the media that clearly run contrary to the Torah.
Pantry Packers makes volunteering both fun and accessible, something beyond the scope of typical food-service organizations.
By Sara Lehmann
After Netanyahu lost his bid for reelection in 1999, I met with him and discussed ideas of how he could again become Israel’s leader. We’ve worked together ever since then.
By Rhona Lewis
We are opening doors for the students. Telling them to look at the world they didn't know about and asking them to think about it.
She taught us, by example, not just how to survive, but to thrive.
By dvora
The Goldins feel the Israeli government has squandered many opportunities to clamp down hard on Hamas.
Some people dance, draw, make music and find joy in serving Hashem and communicating their feelings in service of Hashem.
By Rhona Lewis
If things go well, Souza can paint a portrait in an hour to an hour and a half.
The Holocaust was a period of great extremes. On one extreme was a regime that launched a program of mass extermination while the whole world largely sat back and watched.
Just one book is needed: Eim HaBanim Semeicha by Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel. It reminds you why you came here in the first place and everything falls in line after that.
Responsibility, taking acharayus for our actions, is something we could all start doing a bit more.
By Marc Gronich
I always wanted Trump if it was a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton. Hold my nose, let him win. I don’t want the Democrats and the progressives and Sanders and Ellison.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Fewer than half (nine) of the 21 MKs polled said they believe Trump will keep his election campaign promises to move the embassy.
In an exclusive interview with the Jewish Press, Syrian Kurdish dissident Sherkoh Abbas explains how Turkish President Erdogan is planning to convince President Trump to abandon the Kurds.
According to the news report, the children of that kibbutz had come up from the shelters for the first time in four days to breathe fresh air. There was also to be a wedding in which five couples were to be married.
Aviram sat down with JewishPress.com to talk about trying to bring back Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin.
It’s unbelievable, if you think about it: After 2,000 years – in 1967 – we came back to the land where our winery is located and found this coin with the date 67.
Sherman gives 10-20% of her profits from jewelry sales to Greater Vail Community ReSources, which she helped start near her home in Tucson, AZ, in 2016. It runs the local food bank, among other things.
I've had many jobs in my lifetime, and this is the one that I feel the most satisfied about.
For Rav Hirsch, when Hakadosh Baruch Hu chose Klal Yisrael to be the am segulah, He was not rejecting the rest of mankind.
By Sandy Eller
Ariel begged the tour guide to evacuate him to safety... but his pleas went unheeded.
I had a passion for reading and read anything from The Hardy Boys to any book I could get my hands on.
By Yossi Baumol
More and more we are becoming aware of the fact that there is a gaping hole in our lives – the ability to connect to God with our emotions, something connected to the idea of prophecy.
Whoever doesn't have the courage can read a little bit and then close the book, go to the kitchen and take some ice cream out of the freezer.
By Leslie Bell
The German advance was so rapid that within a short time they found themselves prisoners in the Stolpce ghetto.
What a lot of people don’t know, though, is that Israel used a very sophisticated cyber weapon to basically blind Syrian radar systems [during its aerial raid on the facility].
We’re a halachic publisher. But in our hashkafa, Zionism is important, the state of Israel is important, and engaging the world is important.
Former EU MP Paulo Casaca claimed that there are a number of striking parallels between the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
By Rhona Lewis
Being in prison was hard, but I'm grateful for it because it saved my life.
By Sandy Eller
The organization has just seven paid employees but scores of volunteers who agree to a minimum three-year commitment with IDFWO.
I sense more and more people with strong Torah background who are bothered by questions of the mission of the Jew and the Torah's relationship to the larger world.
Humor should not be used to make fun of people. We have to laugh with people, not against them.
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