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Erica Pelman is a spiritually-driven woman. She is founder and director of “In Shifra’s Arms” (ISA), an organization that offers aid to pregnant Jewish women of all religious backgrounds practically, financially and emotionally. Its arms are open to any pregnant woman in need whether single, divorced, separated, or from a financially-strapped family. “Presently, we are […]
By Shlomo Cesana and Mati Tuchfeld
The Iranians do not believe the West has the necessary conviction to intensify the sanctions – precisely at a time when biting sanctions would be most effective with the falling prices of oil.
What I think is going on here is the Midrash is making a comment about Rut’s love for Naomi being some sort of reflection of how we have to love God.
I can tell you that Cablevision has been astonished at how high we rank.
During the Nazi period, as bad as the Germans were, no German politician ever declared openly a desire to exterminate the Jews.
I never visited but Gush Katif looked like an amazing oasis created by Israel's most loyal citizens
Posting ‘I support Israel’s right to defend herself’ on Facebook isn’t enough.
HarperCollins’s omission was especially egregious because it is a major general and educational publisher.
By Rhona Lewis
Shepherding in the Shomron isn’t your usual kind of shepherding – despite his business-minded beginnings, Eli has discovered that a strong ideological impetus powers the job.
I said to myself, “This story has got to be told. We’re losing this generation of World War II and if we don’t listen to them now, we’ve lost it.”
By Sandy Eller
His entire existence was about spreading simcha and glorifying G-d’s name on a daily basis.
How many sites that tell you to check your politics at the door have 10,000 likes?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I will stop typing and let the pictures do all the talking...
By Rhona Lewis
"I aim for the heart," says Dvorah, "and I start with feelings, because feelings are universal."
I was very pro-Israel, I was very proud of being Jewish, and I was living in New York at the time as a single man in my 20s and I was just looking for a little bit more.
By Rhona Lewis
The gaping hole torn in my heart by my son's death was too raw to find solace in any of the memorial events planned by others.
Dr. Faier passed away in 2009, leaving two manuscripts. The first, A Day is a Thousand Years: Human Destiny and the Jewish People, was published posthumously in 2012.
A school voucher means the state is giving you a voucher to send your kid to whatever school you want. That might be problematic as far church-state issues are concerned.
I felt guilty asking her to talk about her husband. There was no need for the guilt.
By Rhona Lewis
"Addiction can be managed, but it isn't something that can be cured."
"Farming still allows some unique opportunities for mitzvah fulfillment that a city dweller never meets."
By Sara Lehmann
We see pictures of mosques, monuments for terrorists, illegal schools, and hundreds of apartments being built on Jewish land without repercussions. We are losing Jewish property, so it is up to us to protect it.
It’s not an admiration. It is simply a kind of journalist fascination. It stands out, it’s different from more traditional Orthodoxy.
By dvora
In his short time with the shul, he has managed to activate a Hebrew school with now over 50 children and five teachers.
Our constant goal is to up student involvement with Jewish life on campus.
By Rhona Lewis
"My husband, the visionary, wanted to target people who had never kept Shabbos; I, the realist, asked how they would do it."
In a world where people question whether they should be engaged, we are a reminder that all Jews are responsible for one another.
Creativity without clarity is not sufficient for writing. I am eternally thankful to Hashem for his gift to me.
By Rhona Lewis
"We don't just care for the children; we make sure they have the best quality of life."
Aunt Hench is a natural charmer. A people person, spunky and quick as only someone small as a light bulb can be, and wherever she is, she is a bright star.
It is difficult to write about such a holy person, for I fear I will not accurately portray his greatness...
By dvora
There was much to learn from Judge Kramer and the examples he set remains a source of inspiration and a resource from which to learn. He was and remains a great role model.
Another thing they have been covering up is the nature of the building that was attacked. To this day people refer to it as a consulate or an embassy, but it wasn’t.
Dan, a veteran of the US Combat Engineers corps is participating in an IDF Torah dedication on Sunday, this is his story.
Migdal Ohr has grown tremendously. Today it comprises twenty educational institutions, from pre-school through high school.
By Rhona Lewis
When charedi women traveled to the bedsides of wounded soldiers and the homes of fallen soldiers in the months of July and August as Operation Tzuk Eitan (Protective Edge) progressed, their trepidation was very real. In Israel, charedim and the army is a sensitive issue. Would their visit be viewed with cynicism or would it be welcomed?
The reality is that civility is less important than clarity, and right now only very few people on the Left are interested in having a civil conversation about the merits of particular policy solutions.
By Jason Maoz
The New York State comptroller manages the state’s $180.7 billion pension fund, audits the spending practices of all state agencies and local governments, oversees the New York State and Local Retirement System, reviews the New York State and City budgets, and approves billions in State contracts and spending.
Rabinovich is the author of several popular books on Israel’s wars, including The Battle for Jerusalem, The Yom Kippur War, and The Boats of Cherbourg.
By Rhona Lewis
I couldn't see why I was different from Israeli boys my age. I too wanted to defend our country.
By Sandy Eller
I had to hire a babysitter so that I could go shopping or have someone come with me to push Caroline in her wheelchair.
I think Seth Lipsky is amazing, but it just drives home the point that newspapers have a lot of moving parts.
The power of Shabbos to heal and connect is inestimavle, Rabbi Klatzko maintains.
By Jason Maoz
When you grow up in a home where your parents went through what my parents went through, you realize that life has to be meaningful. You have to be there for other people.
An issue of grave concern, Debbie shares, is the rising rate of abuse between older and younger children.
By Sandy Eller
"When Frank does something he does it well and you don't have to worry about dotting the i's or crossing the t's."
By Dini Harris
Contrary to the anti-religious sentiments expressed in the Israeli media, Afula residents embrace their new religious neighbors.
By Rick Richman
Everything we did in my home [depended on] whether it was okay with the Bible.
Home is Milwaukee where their congregation, Beth Jehudah, and community always await their return.
By Howard Zik
Twain grasped amazingly well the pulse of the Jewish people.
By Debra Rosen
The Rebbetzin began campaigning to increase public awareness of the importance of saying Amen.
If you remember, in 2006, a Jewish kid in Paris, Ilan Halimi, was abducted, beaten, and held hostage for three weeks... These are the kinds of people attending these Gaza solidarity rallies.
As Shmitta approaches, JewishPress.com interviews the founder of an organization that has planted more fruit trees in Israel than any other.
By Sandy Eller
“My father added that after all the pogroms, after the Holocaust, a member of the family had finally returned to the shul, proving once again that the indomitable spirit of the Jewish people can never be vanquished.”
"Fields of Exile" provides a glimpse into the horrors of academic anti-Israelism, experienced by one firmly rooted in the left.
King Solomon said it long ago: “Cast your bread upon the waters” because you don’t know when you’ll hit something. Our job is to do.
"I did all the things a rebbetzin should do."
He has always supported the underdog, once even quite literally, legislating a law that prohibits the abandonment of pets.
By Rhona Lewis
Temech is about providing a community – a place where religious women can learn, collaborate and refresh themselves with like-minded people.
By Rhona Lewis
A woman who knows that her family is financially stable is a happy, relaxed mother.
Formerly an attorney at the prestigious law firm Proskauer Rose for 40 years – six of those years as its chairman – Fagin holds degrees from both Columbia and Harvard Universities. He retired in 2013 to devote more time to the Jewish community.
Few of the volunteers were experienced sailors, (Greenfield had been in the Merchant Marine). Few were Zionists.
The fact that you’re tired doesn’t free you from obligations.
The message is that Zionism, which used to be great, is today very institutionalized and [consists of a] bunch of people who are just squabbling over titles and budgets.
Manya was befriended by many who would later comprise this first leaders of the newly born Jewish state.
It's our responsibility as Jews to get involved.
For Steinsaltz, the Rebbe was no less than “the greatest man I have ever met,” as he writes in the preface to his book.
Are women not as important as animals? Are they not our sisters? Are they not our daughters?
By Sandy Eller
The rule of thumb in education these days: provide the kids who don't shine academically with a venue to shine in other ways.
After reaching the pinnacle of the American medical profession by the age of 30, Glick packed it all up for the opportunity to build the Jewish state. Ahead of his latest award ceremony, Glick sat with The Jewish Press to talk about Israel, medicine and everything in between
By Orli Katz
He began illegally "listening in" on the ambulance's bandwidths with police scanners, hoping to be able to respond more quickly to distress calls that were nearby.
Reb Meir's life's directive was simply to serve G-d, to be an Eved Hashem. Ahavas Hashem, love of G-d, and Ahavas Yisroel, love for his fellow Jews, were central to this goal.
Our father's deep attachment to His Creator and his dedication to his fellow Jew made our childhood a powerful education.
Each one of us can and should contribute to the community.
We continue to live by the mantra that the G-d who split the sea, enabling 600,000 Jews to escape the shackles of the slavery, can most certainly opt to spare the life of a single terminally ill 3-year-old child, if He so desires.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
When Cantor Glick is not on stage performing with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra or singing before international audiences, he is on lifesaving his ambucycle responding to emergency calls in Israel.
Wherever I was invited around the world, I always met with people and let them know that I wanted to hear great stories.
When the state was established, gedolim went to Ben-Gurion and asked him not to draft women and, later, yeshiva bachrim.
Providing New York-area hockey fans with a bird’s-eye view and expert analysis is what Fischler, 81, has done on broadcasts of Islanders, Rangers and Devils games. He's had a love affair with the sport since he was introduced to it quite by accident as a 7-year-old growing up in Brooklyn.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Realizing they shared a business and social vision, Moed and Samara resolved to combine forces and offer unique tourism programs for travelers visiting the Holy Land.
With the new baseball season underway, The Jewish Press chatted with Zalta in his Flatbush home about some of his other memories.
"Sometimes the voice of the narrator is the only human voice I hear during the day."
Rabbi Hammer recently spoke with The Jewish Press about his new book, Derash Yehonatan: Around the Year with Rav Yehonatan Eybeshitz (Koren), and his work in teaching Torah to secular Israelis.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“Here I was, dressed as a clown with a red rubber nose, and I had to go out with my M16 for a security check,” Singer says. “That was truly a bizarre experience.”
What do at-risk youth and more than 30,000 square feet of groceries have in common? The answer is Moisha Binik.
There’s also the issue of accusing the Jews of being excessively materialistic and exploitative of non-Jews. You see a lot of that in far-left propaganda – that the Jews are overwhelmingly concentrated in the petty bourgeoisie, which in itself is an archaic class form, and thrives on tricking people and squeezing money out of them through illicit methods of trade.
She wrote about everything in a woman's world, from kids to husbands, and feelings including pain and grief. Writing her book, at least in my opinion, was an incredibly brave statement, one that exposed a truth that must be told.
He didn’t start the fire either, but Solomon’s parodies and adaptations have been igniting the Jewish spark in hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide.
Recently dubbed “the greatest living figure of chassidic music” by NPR, Shenker still composes several new pieces every year. He is currently recording an album of some of his Haggadah compositions, which he hopes will be out before Pesach.
Thousands of women and girls who have heard Rachel Factor's story have been inspired.
Schanzer, who holds a doctorate from King’s College London, is currently vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and has testified before Congress on Middle East affairs on several occasions.
The universities and the local progressive culture make Pacific Northwest a hotbed of Israel hatred.
The IDF does its best to accommodate everyone's religious, linguistic and ethnic needs.
We want to hire couples who are going to reach out to singles to become their spiritual leaders and introduce them to someone of the opposite gender because there’s a lot of casual relationships but not nearly enough serious dating going on. This generation – even if they had rebbeim in yeshiva or seminary – they’re not connected anymore. There isn’t really anyone looking out for them at this point.
As time went on, he lagged behind in the usual milestones of walking and talking.
All these polls asked either “Do you agree that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians?” or, alternatively, “Do you agree Israel behaves toward the Palestinians like the Nazis do?”
Filling two vacuums at once – one of Orthodox women taking a more public role and a second of Modern Orthodox Jews demonstrating the merits of religious Jewish practice – Allison Josephs has transformed her sweet and engaging webisodes and blog into a larger force. Jew in the City is now a franchise.
For his latest book, City College’s William Helmreich walked 120,960 blocks – in other words, nearly every block of New York’s five boroughs.
An unlikely collaboration between a Russian Israeli and a Spanish Moroccan has produce films showcasing a variety of general and American Jewish causes.
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