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Eden saves lives every single day.
By Sandy Eller
"I thought it was totally normal and something everybody did."
A British baroness, TV show producer, MSG executive and Wall Street Journal reporter all talk about being Orthodox and successful.
Naddaf describes the current state of global terrorism as a case of history repeating itself through a new cast of characters.
That’s not the truth. Raoul Wallenberg’s heroic deed was the huge organization he managed to build to help Hungarian Jews.
Titled “The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel’s Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism” (Berkley Caliber), the book focuses on Yamas, the undercover unit of Israel’s National Police Border Guard.
The Jewish people is a community of readers held together by a text.
Rabbi Mordechai Millunchick has been looking for bones in Chicago’s museums since 2008.
The political atmosphere in Bavaria at this time was sympathetic to the direction Hitler was going, and his was just one of many far-right movements at the time.
The idea that the world should not have one world government but rather should be divided into nation states is a biblical idea.
By Guest Author
Tenufa Bakehila's purpose is two-fold: provide safe and healthy living conditions & empower families
So the personality of the leader is really a moot question.
I consumed anything that came my way.
By Guest Author
As mayor of Burlington, Vt., Bernie Sanders publicly inaugurated the Chabad-Lubavitch Public Menorah at Burlington's City Hall.
This was his true screen test and Azulai passed with flying colors.
By Rhona Lewis
“No Asylum,” which documents the tragic consequences of intolerance and racism, was the next step in Fouce’s fight against prejudice.
It demonstrated to me that anti-Semitism wasn’t just a notion, it was a reality;
"I wish I could go back in time and whisper in my parents' ears, "Don't worry, it will be all right."
By As Told To Yehudis Alterman
To date, Mr. Kaplan has raised a whopping $32,117 over a period of eight and a quarter years and has given back rubs to 227 participants and supporters.
By Rifki Ross
Rav Copperman played a singular role in my daughter's process of building her own relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
When Secretary of State John Kerry used the words “apartheid” and “Israel” in the same sentence, Cruz didn’t hesitate to publicly defend the Jewish state.
I was an avid reader and a regular patron of Baltimore's main library.
In honor of my dear mother, who escaped the Holocaust to Palestine, I read it at her funeral today.
By Rhona Lewis
"I'm not trying to build another congregation. I'm simply helping people find the niche that's right for them."
When you write an English song, though, you’re really thinking of a theme or a message and the song almost becomes secondary.
I would suggest they read about Jewish history.
At one point, Jewish leaders warned Bergson that a particular newspaper ad he was planning was so strongly worded that it might cause pogroms.
In the year 2006, the university that had failed me proudly celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Jewish studies program.
What's the worst that could happen - a shidduch?
Probably the biggest mistake the terrorists made was to release some of the hostages, because when they got back to France they were debriefed by Mossad operatives.
By Libi Astaire
He held no public office. Indeed, he rarely left his room. Yet the Vilna Gaon, remains one of modern Jewry's most influential figures.
The very first Jewish author I ever came across was Sadie Weilerstein.
The main source of anti-Semitism in this country is the left and its Muslim allies.
By Henia
It occurred to me that there could be wisdom in a Dr. Seuss book.
But I think the turning point was really Reagan. Since that time, I don’t think you find this anti-Semitic undertone.
I decided I needed to do something to give back.
“Anshie,” says Moully, “is willing to push the envelope by taking an age-old concept and making it contemporary."
What do you mean by “don’t know how to daven”? Ninety-nine percent of the people don’t know the melodies. They don’t know how to set the text together.
By Noam Matas
A fascinating mixture of history & adventure, explore The City of David on your next Jerusalem visit
Rav Yisrael Meir hoped to breathe some religious life into the spiritually-bereft settlement.
By Elke Weiss
The small and intimate event felt more like a living room meeting than a lecture by a top foreign leader.
You rarely hear any of the extreme anti-Israel rhetoric that has become so widespread in other European countries.
Can anything be done to preserve Eastern Europe's numerous Jewish communities like Olomouc ?
Blogs are history. They still exist, but they are largely irrelevant
Maybe for a young couple to go so far away to be by ourselves and to open up to the world of China, Japan, Burma, and India would be an interesting honeymoon.
By Rhona Lewis
Yuval went on to produce more than ten film documentaries aimed at exposing secular audiences to Judaism and spirituality.
There’s a wide spectrum of behavior and beliefs among people, and people don’t always line up 100 percent the way other people expect them to.
"I always felt like my voice was a kind of beacon from within that connected me with something beyond myself."
By Rhona Lewis
“I responded, 'I will be among this handful surviving.'”
It’s kind of a sad thing that society dismisses the extraordinary work they do. I mean, they put their lives on the line every day to protect strangers.
By Noam Matas
Jerusalem's Old City is amongst Israel’s most popular tourist sites and its beauty runs deep!
Rabbi Mayer Schiller is a Skver-Rachmistrivka chassid with a passion for the ideology of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch. Born to a non-observant family, Rabbi Schiller became a baal teshuvah in seventh grade after he and two friends embarked on an unusual experiment: to live as Orthodox Jews for a month. He is the author of […]
By Sandy Eller
Nahal Haredi is the ultimate solution, according to Branski, serving haredim from a wide variety of backgrounds – chassidish and yeshivish, Sephardi and Askenazi.
By Rachel Moore
In recent years, there has been a big push to grow and develop American Football here in Israel.
By Sean Savage
Osakwe, like many other students at the CAMERA conference, described an extremely hostile campus environment when it comes to the issue of Israel.
They would have like us to assimilate and forget that we are Jewish.
How do you account for Jews who join Israel’s enemies in denouncing and boycotting the Jewish state?
By Guest Author
The film transports the viewer to a fairy-tale time & place, filled with wonderful cast & stories
I am among those who maintain that artistic expression that comes from inspiration is very valuable.
David was many things: Brother, son, grandson, nephew, uncle, cousin, talmid, comrade, AND a WARRIOR
Aside from my own 485-page tome on the subject, Red Army, I think Jamie Glazov did an excellent job at framing things in United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror.
"Isn't it enough that the whole world hates us? WHy do we have to hate each other?"
By Sandy Eller
“The fear of being exposed publicly is the only thing that will stop people,” observed Seewald.
I think the melodies in our religious services have a haunting sound to them that just permeates your guts and gets into your soul. If you have any musical inclination, I think they inspire you to compose.
By Libi Astaire
It was modeled upon a similar fund that had been set up by Sephardic Jews in Venice. But Amsterdam’s Dotar was initially more ambitious in scope.
Rav Aharon Margalit is a bestselling author – his book, As Long As I Live, has been translated into four languages – and a standing-room only lecturer. Both religious and non-religious audiences flock to hear him. What makes him so extraordinary? Rav Margalit is a Chasidic Jew who experienced incredible challenges from a very young […]
By Jason Maoz
The bills I’m proud to have sponsored are less controversial, more responsive to yeshiva and parochial school parents, and were gaining traction in the Assembly until the negative campaign began...
In his day, Rav Kook was the greatest writer of haskamot and pretty much everyone in the Lithuanian Torah world wanted his approbation.
By Howard Zik
Johannes Reuchlin, renaissance scholar and savior of seminal works in Jewish thought and theology.
By Edwin Black
Anti-Semitism's worse today than in generations but things are different now because there's Israel
But on the human level, public protest played a very central role. And that’s not my position – it’s the position of historians who are experts in this area.
“The only [candidate] that’s going to give real support to Israel is me,” said the 69-year-old Trump.
Rabbi Pfeffer points out that at his site, there are no one-line answers. "We want to show the people we're interested in their questions," he says.
My best book is one that hasn't been published yet.
Dating apps have really changed the way many young Jews approach dating.
By Amos Regev and Boaz Bismuth
I made a decision, as you know, not to criticize my successors, with an “s.”
By Rhona Lewis
HonestReporting's missions attract a wide gamut of participants, 15% of whom are not Jewish.
By Guest Author
Under-12 Israel National Baseball Team will compete in Italy in a great international competition
Sometimes it takes a catastrophe like 9/11 to wake Americans up.
“This event is about empowering young special needs adults in Israel to live a more fulfilling life”
70 year old Chana Loecher plans to cross the Kinneret for the 6th time in Swim4Sadna event tomorrow
Every Jew has their own deeply personal reasons for becoming Torah observant. We have no right to judge any Jew’s motivation. Our job is just to help guide them on the path to the Torah.
By Dr. Elana Yael Heideman, PhD
Jews are looking for positive means to feel more connected to Israel. Suggestion: Support Swim4Sadna
Ida Nudel’s account of how the Soviets persecuted and punished her was far worse than imagined.
By Guest Author
Swim4Sadna is an annual event benefiting Sadna, an integrative special-ed community in Gush Etzion
Prof. Wistrich, was THE foremost historian of anti-Semitism; committed spokesman & advocate of Jewry
On his shloshim, I want to discuss a term I've heard countless times about Rav Aharon: Gedol HaDor
Although I loved law school, I doubted myself: Who would come to me, a chassidish woman lawyer?
We take a whole person approach, giving our people assistance with whatever they need.
By Sandy Eller
"...his neshamah reached out to us to have the zechus of Torah learning to take with him on his final journey.”
By Joshua Nass
Rechnitz proves that learning Torah, chesed, and entrepreneurship can complement each other.
By Rhona Lewis
Commenting on the public’s growing acceptance of challenged individuals, Dr. Hahn says, “Little by little, things are changing.
Jews are an anxious group – understandably, given the millennia of persecution – and want to have no trouble.
By Rhona Lewis
Although it's emotionally difficult to see the suffering, helping out makes me happy.
I decided to really understand what Jewish people go through by becoming a Jew.
Why do Jews, then, sometimes feel more intensely about Polish anti-Semitism than they do about German anti-Semitism?
“Texans share a lot of the same attitude as Israelis, that we say what we think and we think what we say, and that makes it much easier to communicate,” he says.
She had many names and was many things to many people, but to me she was just Babineni.
Mitchell Bard is nothing if not prolific. He has written and edited 23 books, including “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Middle East” and “The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East.” Bard, who has a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA, is also the executive director of both the […]
You have to understand that Ukraine was really a very, very Jewish place for many years.
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