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By Rochel Frid
Total strangers from all over the world opened their hearts and pocketbooks.
Beneath the humor and fun is the depth of emotion oand expression that this artist brings to each canvas.
By Rhona Lewis
As a Jew in Yemen, you live in your own little bubble and don't associate with the world around you.
By Sara Lehmann
The Trump administration is waiting to hear our suggestions. They are looking to us to be proactive and speak out about what we would like.
By Rhona Lewis
Harel specializes in oil paints, etching, wood-cut, silk-print and lithography. He also specializes in details that surprise.
I think the rollout of Trump’s first executive order on immigration was amateur. But the spirit of the order was correct.
My mother told us when we were growing up that we have to be like Yosef in Mitzrayim. Being Jewish and living a Jewish life was fundamental.
I had not seen a black hat in... years.
I had no idea what Down syndrome is and I was happy that I'd have a little sister.
I was blessed with a mother who was an avid reader, and she set a magnificent example of love of reading and love of learning.
By Marc Gronich
It’s a struggle year after year for our schools to hire and retain the quality teachers they need.
Today, with health portals being used in so many medical offices and hospitals, this front-end cleanup of patient medical history may actually become a reality.
The Greek royal family had been well acquainted with the family of Haimaki Cohen, a Jewish former member of Parliament, from northern Greece.
Obligation is a strong word. There are many medical procedures that are life-saving in nature that are not obligatory if there’s even a small risk involved.
My family was very much involved with Eretz Yisrael. During the 1940s when the Underground was trying to throw out the British, my father was one of the heads of the Revisionists.
By Rhona Lewis
A human being is defined by his ability to choose. When you're in jail, choice is taken away from you.
By Sandy Eller
When questions were raised during the presidential campaign about whether Melania Trump had violated immigration law when she first came to the United States from Slovenia, the Trumps turned to Wildes, despite their political differences.
By Sara Lehmann
I didn’t want to run, but I campaigned as if I did because I don’t know any other way to do things except with my whole heart and soul.
She witnessed the death of her entire family one by one. And so much more.
Most powerful people in Hollywood are the directors, and the directors have never liked others filtering their work. So the hands of the people inside the studio are tied.
Since age eight or nine, I have read non-fiction almost exclusively, beginning with presidential biographies.
By dvora
But moving the embassy alone will not guarantee the future of Jerusalem; there are imminent threats facing Jerusalem demographically, security-wise, and in other ways.
His art is unique and vibrant, his subjects Torah, Kedushah and Eretz Yisrael.
It can get exhausting sometimes when you sit in the Security Council for eight hours and one after another the other representatives get up and speak against us.
An Exclusive Interview with Israel’s UN Ambassador, Danny Danon.
My great-great-grandparents were very upset that the Rebbe told them to go to treifa America.
People who start the history in 1948 encounter a country that is fundamentally in conflict and are not exposed at all to the yearnings of the Jewish people to restore themselves to their ancestral homeland.
Answers to Chris’s questions about his father’s war record finally began trickling in when he discovered a New York Times article published in late 2008, in which Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is mentioned.
By Ann Goldberg
When Rabbanit Yemima came to address the challah bakers, she was joined at the podium by the kallah who received a bracha not just from her, but from the 900 participants as well.
The biggest terrorist attack in the United States before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was an anarchist bombing of Wall Street by Italian anarchists in 1920, in which dozens of people were killed.
By Ari Siegel
BJX students and young professionals come from all different religious and geographical backgrounds. Many of us, like myself, did not grow up religious.
In honor of Rabbi Kahane’s 26th yartzheit, let the truth be told.
By Fern Sidman
Startling revelations quickly emerged from Dr. Bruckner's first experiments as a special assistant to the NCI associate director.
The important point here is that the Muslim Brotherhood is the only organization of this kind in Egypt.
Lionel enjoys making the deliveries as much as the seniors enjoy getting them.
What’s striking is there’s a pattern that repeats itself over and over again of believing that if the United States distances itself from Israel, it’s going to get some kind of strategic benefit.
There is such beauty in Orthodoxy, I feel my life has been incredibly enriched.
Although six decades have since passed, the Kastner Affair remains highly controversial.
When Christianity was tested, it failed. Judaism scored 100 percent.
By Rhona Lewis
So what did it really feel like – back there in Canaan? The cast traveled to Eretz Bereishit, an activity center twenty minutes outside Jerusalem, to learn about that.
By Eli Chomsky
[2006] On the eve of her expected reelection victory, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the The Jewish Press.
I believe the whole range og 19th century Russian literature affected me deeply.
There were all kinds – litvish, chassidish, the daughters of roshei yeshiva and girls who weren’t even shomer Shabbos. Rebbetzin Kaplan took them all in
Whenever Ari speaks he makes it a habit to explain that he is not there to simply collect money, but his goal is to create a personal connection between the soldiers and the people around the world.
By Howard Zik
The transformation of Ulysses Grant the Civil War General and US President. He went from an anti-Semite to perhaps the greatest presidential friend of the Jews.
By Edwin Black
Too many Holocaust memorials have lost their original identity and transitioned to an institution which devotes itself to both Holocaust and genocide, or simply to global genocide
By Sara Lehmann
On a governmental level, the present government has made it a priority to deal with the challenge posed by the BDS.
“The world loved Shimon Peres because they thought he was the best chance they had at getting rid of or weakening the Jewish presence in Israel. And they are truly sad because that hope just died.”
Shimon Peres was both a man of principle and of pragmatism. He understood that morality required the strength to defend it,
I couldn’t believe poverty was so bad that people had to lick the road just to get a little bit of food.
Mt. Hermon isn't the toughest mountain to climb, and Mt. Kilimanjaro is no walk in the park.
Perhaps, today, it is no t unusual to see somebody who looks like Rav Simcha on the streets of New York City, but in 1920, it was quite unusual.
By Sara Lehmann
The facts on the ground and the truth of what actually happened can settle debates. It’s just a matter of affirming it.
Since that day, back in 1999, the project I started - called “Israel Trees” - has planted a bit more than 120,000 new fruit trees all across Israel.
I have closde to 10,000 books, covering all kinds of things in Jewish studies.
The question was: Would you support a two-state solution if it meant the conflict was completely over and no more claims could be made?
Before long, people began calling Rabbi Eidlitz with their kashrus questions.
By Irene Klass
Steve felt himself drawn by the spirit that moved them. The spark that had been kindled in the shul in Seattle became a fire that would not be quenched – that demanded to be fed.
"The idea of bringing people back to Yiddishkeit was inside me from my childhood days."
Patients who have “barriers to care,” such as cultural or language differences or physical disabilities, are particularly interesting to Kilim.
I look to my parents and rebbeim as my primary infulences. And I think that's how it should be.
The story of bookstores in the U.S. in general – not just Jewish bookstores – is a pretty bad one.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the infamous Sbarro pizza shop bombing, masterminded by Ahlam Tamimi.
Three-time NCAA All-American and member of two national championship-winning freestyle relay teams, Andrea Murez is a legit medal possibility for Israel
Eric Greitens received a PhD from Oxford, founded a nationally-renowned nonprofit, and survived combat as a Navy SEAL. Whether he can survive Missouri politics remains to be seen.
To the amazement of the bedraggled group of prisoners, Rav Yaakov proceeded to recite the entire parsha from memory.
I’m not arguing against common ancestry or some form of descent with modification. What I’m saying is that accidental processes cannot possibly have invented these things.
The skill of condensing a large amount of information helped him pack an hour’s worth of cooking in the thirty minutes provided.
By Rhona Lewis
Determined, he chose to make his life a success.
Elie Wiesel was one of the most important people in the post-WW II period. He spoke truth to power, He spoke up for those for whom no one else championed. For that he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Magda's dreams is an Egypt that is cosmopolitan and tolerant, that embraces the breadth of humanity that Egypt embodied in recent memory.
The ADL, supported by naïve Jewish donors, offers assurances of support for Israel and Jewish causes but offered only evasions when asked direct questions
By Marc Gronich
I was not interested at all in going more than a two- or three-hour drive from New York City because my family and my wife’s family both live in New York. The
As a teen, I found essays by people like William F. Buckley Jr. and Lewis Thomas enthralling.
But my father had developed an interest in Judaism and felt it was disloyal to abandon the Jewish people in a time of danger, so he stayed in Israel.
Though the native of Brighton is a serious artist and deep Kabbalist, Langford has an easy air about him and a sense of humor that sets his blue eyes twinkling.
By Tzvi Fishman
Mrs. Cherna Moskowitz: "Irv’s passion was creating and developing businesses so that he could help Israel. For him, this was the right thing to do."
By Steven Plaut
In short, Michael Lerner is neither Orthodox nor a Rabbi. We DO know that he is an anti-Semite though, one who claims that Jews themselves are to blame for anti-Semitism!
After Rabbi Yehuda Glick was shot by a would-be assassin, Amir Ohana stepped in to act as his personal bodyguard.
By Ben Cohen
Prof. Wistrich’s passing has deprived the world of the most cogent analyst of anti-Semitism, perhaps ever, {Prof. Wistrich, in a word, is irreplaceable.
Her parents' message was clear: be sensitive to society's shortcomings by being part of the solution.
By Rachel Moore
The Mayberg Family Foundation is hosting its annual Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC) retreat. The challenge offers finalists 12 minutes to pitch their projects to a panel of judges,
“I had seen the plans for the museum and that the Kishle was part of the grounds,” Lieber tells JNS. “It was something that no one even remembered.”
What books would you recommend to someone seeking intellectual ammunition for his belief in 1) the existence of G-d? and 2) the divinity of the Bible?
My father went to a school in a neighborhood with no Jews and told my teacher, “My son is a sick boy who must relax two days a week – Saturday and Sunday.”
The Blue Card is the only organization with the sole mission to provide financial assistance to needy survivors.
It is unknown who executed the hero Baha Nababta. likely Palestinians against "normalization." Media, both Israeli and Palestinian, ignored this crime.
By Paula Stern
May our people never again be without the means to protect ourselves and may God, above all else, stand over us and protect us.
When she asked her if she remembered her quirky sentences, the student replied, “Are you kidding me? These sentences are going with me to the grave!”
HUC-JIR’s Cohen said that Israel is generally not a major factor in most Jews’ voting decisions because “each political perspective sees its candidate as doing right by Israel.”
13 years ago, Lt. Daniel Mandel, of the Nahal Brigade, was murdered by a terrorist. Today, there are 18 babies who have been named Daniel, after him.
Many people said it was going to look like vengeance.
I walked into his class thinking I knew how to write, and for our first essay he told us that two-run on sentences was grounds for immediate failure.
I actually originally wanted to become a conductor and studied classical piano and conducting at the Academy of Music of Tel Aviv.
She would notice when people needed, and what they needed, and she did everything she could to fill the void with energy absent in women half her age.
When it comes to Passover, however, making a product that is kosher for the holiday requires full-time rabbinical supervision.
Eden saves lives every single day.
By Sandy Eller
"I thought it was totally normal and something everybody did."
July 10, 2026 
