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By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Shifra Fried is an Empowerment Coach and the rebbetzin of Young Israel of Bedford Bay, in Brooklyn, New York.
By Vera Kessler
Miriam Tawil, founder and director of Midreshet Eshel, a Sephardic seminary in Eretz Israel, shares with us about the connection between Israeli Jews and Jews who live outside of Israel (diaspora Jews).
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Simone Broide of the Boca Raton Synagogue discusses a variety of chesed activities that can be done by people of all ages.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Chaya Meyer discusses the key elements to building a Jewish home. She talks about the physical items found in a home that make it Jewish, along with meaningful Jewish rituals and Jewish core values. She gives a beautiful and uplifting interview about the deep inner beauty of a Jewish home.To contact our sponsor, The […]
One of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history is Haym Salomon (1740-1785).
"Parenting behavior doesn't work in the same way in different cultural and religious contexts."
By Israel Hayom
According to rabbinical-court data,11,076 couples were divorced in 2020, as compared with11,451 in 2019.
By JNi.Media
The new bill seeks to permit a first-degree relative or guardian to review the adoption file of family members who have disappeared, been kidnapped or whose fate is unknown.
Rabbi Ullman answers the questions, does reincarnation have a source in Judaism, and why are we born into the families we are born into?
By Jason Maoz
His voice had the strength of a pipe organ and the gentleness of a violin, but most of all it had the power to make men weep.
The start of the new school year, and a farewell to Heather Dean and her podcast.
Experts who will transform the way we spend our money, learn new skills, and how to inspire our kids.
By JNi.Media
Mothers will also have to pay some amount of child support, especially if they earn more than their ex.
A show about family life.
I wish this were the case. To be sure, each family crisis is its own unique tragedy, but the common thread of hatred is always there. And no, it is not a rare occurrence, unfortunately.
If the deceased left no children, no descendants of his children, no father and no siblings, one looks further up the paternal family tree to see whether a grandfather survived him.
An unforgettable hour with Rabbi Kahana about his amazing life!
From the archives of Rebbetzin Jungreis (ZT"L), the conclusion to the story of a family torn apart by an obstinate brother.
By JNi.Media
'People see it as a great opportunity to make a difference.'
By JNi.Media
Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).
By JNi.Media
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday strongly condemned the "verbal assault of a visibly identifiable Jewish traveler at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks, CT."
The significance of the two identical sums, the one he had just lent his friend and the reduced fee for the moving wasn’t lost on Shlomo
The situation took a severe turn for the worse on Tuesday, Peres' neurological condition rapidly deteriorating.
He mentions the threatening atmosphere of anti-Semitism in Mussolini's Italy and his concern for his wife and children.
By JNi.Media
According to Damari's account, the first rescuer arrived seconds after the attack and started prying the doors open with a jack, releasing and bringing out the children.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the infamous Sbarro pizza shop bombing, masterminded by Ahlam Tamimi.
This week on The Soul of Israel - Shlomo Katz שלמה כ"ץ and Ari Abramowitz delve into this weeks Parsha Matot by reminding ourselves what family truly feels like.
By JNi.Media
Shira's father said that "such a clear, strong, firm, and public official statement calling for moderation, tolerance, and acceptance of others is something that the State of Israel needs today maybe more than anything."
By dvora
Gil Ronen, founder of the Femilistim pro-family organization, posited that the above examples, and others, are driven by nothing less than a Communist agenda, and that feminists in Israel have, wittingly or not, bought into a wide-ranging campaign to destroy the family unit.
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Taking her daughter's hand, Freida Sima once again rued her husband Mordche's communist polemics and political pessimism that Shirley had grown up with.
By JNi.Media
“Why don’t we give them the benefit of our own experience? We all wished we had such a course when we were in that situation."
They are blocking the families from visiting Hamas prisoners, while Oron's body is held hostage in Gaza.
By JNi.Media
The shooting incident ended miraculously, since only the driver’s leg was injured when terrorists shot at his car, while his wife and their six children, including a one-week-old infant, were also in the vehicle.
By JNi.Media
The family petitioned the court saying the decision to make all the TV channels carrying the game tonight available to security prisoners, most of whom are members of Hamas, is repugnant.
The Shaul family is demanding the body of their son be brought back from Gaza.
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
“We took nothing, as we thought we would come home in a few days, but we never came home,” Sheindl recalled. She never saw Shaja again.
By JNi.Media
According to the Shin Bet, 104 citizens or legal residents who had been brought into Israel under the Family Reunification Law had committed acts of terrorism from 2001 to 2016.
By JNi.Media
The provision has been the subject of a tireless match of wills between the Supreme Court and the Knesset since 2004.
By Yaffa Ganz
Students wearing blue shirts participate in a weekly project called “Students & Baskets.” They come to open air markets on Thursdays and help the elderly carry their bags home.
By JNi.Media
The family’s attorney is E. Randol Schoenberg, who helped Maria Altmann successfully recover Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold," from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.
Bnei Brak Hassidic woman and child are fine after C-section birth of in-vitro-fertilization baby.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This story is just one of numerous accounts of the citizens of Israel coming out to help and show support for their fighting men and women in the IDF. At times of crisis, we all remember we're one family...
By Dov Shurin
Hashem simply goes beyond the letter of the law in His love for us.
What would compel a devout Jewish father to take the life of his own child?
By JTA
British rocker Roger Waters published an open letter calling on fellow musicians to join a boycott of Israel. “I write to you now, my brothers and sisters in the family of Rock and Roll, to ask you to join with me, and thousands of other artists around the world, to declare a cultural boycott on […]
It is not everyday that a young man from Potomac, Maryland travels for tens of thousands of miles to join the Israel Navy.
By Paula Stern
When a doctor told her there was no hope... she decided not to listen.
I know families with an OTD child that are very right wing, moderate Charedi, and right wing Modern Orthodox.
She teaches all things explosive: from how to handle the explosives themselves to utilizing them in operations, such as gaining access to buildings.
By Adi Moses
With your decision to release the murderer you spit on the graves of my mother and my brother.
Rebbetzin, I have seen families where cousins, aunts and uncles are not even invited to one another’s weddings.
By Guest Author
Our Radio guy Yishai Fleisher is joined by Walid Shantur, an Arab American hailing from a village near Ramallah whom Yishai had met in Ithaca, NY.
By David Wilder
The first time was many years ago. I had just concluded explanations about Yeshivat Knesset Yisrael” which arrived in Hebron from Slobodka, in Lithuania in 1924. The Hebron Heritage Museum at Beit Hadassah features an exhibit about this illustrious Torah-learning academy, nicknamed the ‘Hebron Yeshiva,’ which includes a ‘class picture’ from 1928. As I finished […]
Often one spouse accuses the other of being an over-spender. But what exactly is “overspending”? This definition changes from family to family; for one, going out to eat on a weekly basis may be within their means, while even a periodic coffee may be stretching the resources of another couple. So how does a family […]
Scrambled air force jets shooting down a drone, an Arab attacking them with rocks are not the usual concerns with sending your children on a school trip.
A sentence has not been pronounced yet, but the murderer of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonathan faces the possibility of a life sentence.
When all the ribbetting is silenced, we begin to hear an old, familiar tune: the melodious song of our own souls.
Community is one of the factors that has brought many people, including Olim, to come to live in the small towns of Judea and Samaria.
Mariam wanted her sons to die a glorious Jihad death, taking as many innocent lives as possible with him. If there was one thing Mariam was not, it was a mother.
Individual therapy can be very helpful as long as the therapist does not turn his or her client against the spouse without hearing their side of it.
Why inadequate husbands can still be great dads
What is it about Jacob that he seemingly can’t stop the favoritism?
There are so many things that aren't normal about life here. Having a pile of gas masks in a corner of the room, for example, isn't normal.
Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to all those celebrating Hanukkah around the world.
“Fill the Void” is the title of Rama Burshtein’s film that played to critical acclaim at the recent Toronto International Film Festival and earned seven Ophir Awards -- the Israeli Oscars -- including one for best film and best director, and has become Israel’s entry into the 2012 Oscars' foreign language category.
Chanukah is just about upon us and Jews across the planet are looking forward to family gatherings, delicious food (you can’t feel too guilty eating oily latkes and high carb donuts on the chag – hey, it’s practically a mitzvah to do so); giving and receiving gifts and in general celebrating our survival – our spiritual continuance as God-fearing Jews. (Our physical survival is an event we acknowledge on Purim.)
The Cuban government should release Alan Gross and return him to his family, where he belongs.
The picture isn't from Gaza. The blood wasn't from his brother. The Israelis weren't involved.
Dear Brocha, Thank you so much for your column and for shining light on this matter. Addiction has been gnawing at the souls of our community for a long time. Yet, it still remains a disease that is swept under the table.
By dvora
Allan is a very troubled nineteen-year-old who has been coming to see me since August. Actually, I’m never sure if Allan will make it to the next appointment. Since we first met, I have been amazed at the amount of emotional turmoil and pain he is in. Every appointment seems to bring another “cry” for help. His anguish is noted by his constant crying and threats of harm to himself and others.
Three Palestinians crossed over into Israel from Gaza near the town of Netiv HaAsara. The town went on alert. The three were caught and brought in for interrogation. The alert was finally called off an hour after no additional signs of infiltrators were found. On Monday morning a terrorist entered the town of Sdei Avraham […]
I see nothing wrong with our participating with all American citizens in observing Thanksgiving.
So, each year, most years, we made a Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family. When we moved to Israel, we made a few dinners with American friends, but for the most part, the tradition fell away.
Dear Readers: The following short story is fictitious, but the situation of Jewish children during the Holocaust being raised by gentile families or in Catholic convents and orphanages is not. While some were re-united with family members who survived the death camps – many were not, and remain lost both physically and religiously. This story is in memory of all the lost children. May they be reunited with their families with the coming of Moshiach.
A week after Hurricane Sandy, the Blums still had no electricity. They had run extension cords to a neighbor's house to power some basic items, like the fridge and telephone, but the protracted living without power was taking its toll on the family.
By dvora
It is painfully difficult to start and end the hectic day seeing my daughter wander, almost lifelessly, from room to room and sibling to sibling with no desire to venture out into the scary world of society. With her bundle of strengths and weaknesses, and despite my countless pep talks, our 27-year-old daughter chooses to spend most of her time in the comfort and safety of our home. That is until recently, when terrible loneliness finally pushed her out the door.
Last Wednesday evening, Miri and Daniel were savoring their last few hours together for the week because, as Ashkenazi Jews, they would not see each other during the week preceding their wedding. Shortly before they were to say good-bye, Daniel's phone rang. He answered it, and learned he was being called up for military service.
While spending Shabbat with her family in Jerusalem, Marian Stoltz-Loike, Ph.D, dean of the Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW), and the vice president for Online Education at Touro College, heard the piercing sound of an air raid siren, a warning that a rocket attack from Gaza was imminent. The following is a letter she sent to the students of LCW about her harrowing experience:
If you look up the word "role model" in the dictionary you will find the following definition: "a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people.”
By Chelsea Mosery Tazpit News Agency
When asked if she feels safe living in Haifa, far away from Gaza and it’s rockets, Elisheva says, quite simply, "no place is safe."
It still amazes me how the Internet has completely changed our lives and how we view communication these days. My children hardly believe me when I tell them that there was a time when being in touch with someone, meant we actually saw them, spoke to them on the phone, or wrote them a letter and mailed it.
From personal messages received from family and friends, and from scanning the online sources - here are the rocket attacks, just in one hour this morning.
You can help a family from Israel's south this Shabbat.
By Tzvi Fishman
Last week, I drove with my wife toward the coastline to do a little seaside touring. As we were driving there, she mentioned that someone in her family was going for a vacation to Austria. “Austria?” I blurted, nearly losing control of the wheel. “Why would any Jew in Israel want to go to Austria?”
By Leah Lebel
On October 29th, the verdict was revealed As we faced what was destined as the Din was sealed With a storm that echoed the words we know to be true of B'Rosh Hashanah Yikaseivu.
Ever since I started this question-and-answer column, people have been coming over and asking me questions. Baruch Hashem, right?
By Anonymous
It was the mid ‘60s and I was living with my mother and brother in public housing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. We moved there from Brooklyn a decade earlier to be near my mother’s family when my father died suddenly of a stroke.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The company’s employees are mostly immigrants who have come to Israel from places like the United States, Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia. The Levys’ business philosophy is firmly rooted in social responsibility and philanthropy.
By Sandy Eller
Your mother may have taught you how to separate an egg and how to dice a mango, but I am willing to bet your mother never taught you to spatchcock a chicken. No, that is not a typographical error.
“G-d formed man from the earth and breathed into him a living soul.” The greatest achievement of the biological sciences since that moment in creation has been the Human Genome Project, a massive effort by thousand of biologists, chemists and physicists who isolated and identified the 24,000 genes that Hashem placed in Adam and Eve, […]
Hashem appeared to Avraham and told him that the people of Sodom were wicked and would be destroyed. The only ones who would be saved were Lot and his family, because of the merit of Avraham. Hashem then sent two malachim, Gavriel and Michoel, to accomplish this task.
Early American Jewish history is unfortunately replete with examples of observant families who came to America and, within a relatively short period of time, not only abandoned much of their commitment to religious observance but even had the sad experience of having some of their children intermarrying and assimilating. One family that did not follow this trend was the Hays family.
The last time you were at the circus did you gasp as the trapeze artist swung through the air? Even though his antics might be scary, there’s a strong safety net catch him in the event of a fall. Hopefully, the trapeze artist won’t ever need to use it. But it is always there – just in case.
Over the past few weeks, I, like many of you, have received wedding invitations, and I truly hope that the young couples-to-be have chosen wisely and will enjoy long and fruitful unions.
By Ann Goldberg
Yael was tired of sticking the highchair together with glue or Sellotape. It had lasted through five children, a miracle in itself, but now it seemed to have given up all hope – and decided to self-destruct.
There has been a lot of discussion about young people abandoning Mitzvah observance (going off the derech) over the past few years. A lot of that discussion took place here. Indeed it has been declared a crisis by some. The focus of this issue in the religious media has been primarily in the Charedi world. Many theories have emerged as to why children go OTD. Among them: being sexually abused and the negative reactions to it by family and community, dysfunctional family situations, faulty educational environments, teachers unprepared to deal with questions of faith, or being overly sheltered from the world so that rebellion occurs when they are exposed to it unprepared.
If any single business lobby—yes, business lobby—stands as an obstacle to entitlement reform, it is the American Association of Retired People [AARP]. There is nothing wrong with being a successful business, and the AARP should be credited for being just that. But there is something unsavory, at least, about being in the business of duping the elderly. Dissimulating—even to the elderly—is not illegal, nor should it be.
June 26, 2026 
