129 countries voted against the Jewish people... who do we blame?
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said “instead of a cold détente attained via surrender to unreasonable demands, these new agreements promote peace based upon common security needs and mutual medical, technological and financial benefits.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Tel Aroma, a Hasmonean-era fortress, Biblical Samaria, and the altar of Yehoshua Bin Nun on Har Ebal near Shechem (Nablus) are some of these sites being taken over and converted by the PA into “Palestinian heritage sites.”
The new promises of new construction for the Jews of Hebron offered by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Israel, they will have an extensive tour of the nation to learn about the land, Jewish history and Zionism.
I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.
""My Lords, it pains me to speak about antisemitism, the world’s oldest hatred. But I cannot keep silent." Here is my speech from today's debate in the House of Lords about #antisemitism in Britain."
By JNi.Media
Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction.
The world is starting to shake with the rumbles of the the coming world war, destruction is to come and will sweep away much of the old, which will open new horizons for the budding Zionist project. Learn more Jewish history with Rabbi Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.
Cosmopolitanism vs. nationalism, socialism vs. capitalism - the end of the 19th century was a time of dramatic ideological struggle. Learn more about early Zionism with Rabbi Mike Feurer on The Jewish Story.
Did you ever wonder how the Jews when from being the martyrs of Europe to the military power of the Middle East in less than fifty years? Learn more with Rav Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.
In the late 19th century the dream of returning to the land of Israel began to become a reality. It took one man to transform the rebirth from a desire to an international issue. Learn about the early life of Theodore Herzl with Rabbi Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.
In honor of the State of Israel's 70th birthday, Rav Mike gives an overview of the meaning of the word "Am" (people) today on The Jewish Story.
Two decades after the Baal Shem Tov died a movement sprung up from his revolutionary thoughts, but not without controversy. Today on The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer.
Out of the darkness of the Middle Ages a new light will emerged. Learn about the rise of the Ba'al Shem Tov and the Chasidic movement with Rabbi Mike Feuer on this week's episode of The Jewish Story.
Telling a story of the past in order to make a present identity, today with Rav Mike on The Jewish Story.
By JNi.Media
In the very recent past, this anti-Zionist group went after one of the most fundamental concepts in the history of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel: Avoda Ivrit – Jewish Labor.
I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.
There was more to the Golden Age of Tzefat than the writing of authoritative legal texts. Hear more on today's The Jewish Story with Rav Mike.
How did R' Yosef Karo became the greatest legal authority of his day? Today on The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer.
Hear the story of most powerful Jewish woman since Queen Esther, Gracia Mendes with Rabbi Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Every year, thousands of Jews join in the annual Tisha B'Av eve walk.
This vote against Israel undermines the seriousness of UNESCO assessments.
Heideman's task will be to fashion unity from a widely-disparate consortium of Zionists.
By JNi.Media
There's much misinformation, misconception and ignorance in the American Jewish community about Israel, which Yishai did a lot to dispel over at that Beverly Hills event.
By JNi.Media
'Bad things happen when we paint with such a broad brush. It’s bigotry.'
How do we understand the root of anti-Semitism and what can we do about it?
By JNi.Media
Canada's former Justice Minister, said the current level of anti-Semitism 'is the highest in 40 years, and includes the rejection of Israel's right to exist at all, and the portrayal of Israel as a monster and enemy of mankind.'
By JNi.Media
From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.
By JNi.Media
There are 250,000 Jews in Germany, but few Germans know a Jew personally, according to Rent-a Jew.
Jewish pirates aren't more interesting Jews; Jewish pirates make pirates more interesting, says the filmmaker.
By JNi.Media
Bernard Shapero said that “the whole exhibition shows the positive side of Judaism. There’s no Holocaust material or anti-Semitic material, which forms a large part of collecting in this field.”
Bibi gives the answers to the Ten Big Lies told about Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The café opened in 1939 and was closed n 1949.
By JoeSettler
Let's revel in Peter Beinart's unintended "Ma Tovu" praise of the Jewish state: "It’s modern; it’s democratic; it’s pro-American."
Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'
‘Zionism in Animation’, aims to tell the story of Zionism in a series of 100 short animated clips, and is the brainchild of Shlomo Blass, head of Rogatka.
Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.
Not one Jew was allowed to remain on the Jordanian side of the cease-fire line.
One of the medieval Aliyot was that of the Sephardic Jewish community which fled Spain following the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition.
The sixteenth century Arab historian Mujir Al Din wrote that Rachel’s Tomb was a Jewish holy place.
The entire Land of Israel, have been the subject of incessant Islamic reinvention.
Are we to believe that these Jews who were devout and pious were being punished?
By Orat@Muqata
Two people have reported snow in the late May-early June, though in both cases, it was hearsay.
Shavuot reflects the centrality of 'seven' in Judaism.
An interview with Professor Jerry Z. Muller author of "Capitalism and the Jews."
Few of those dancing in the circle passing around the fire know what they are truly commemorating and yet the act is its own commemoration.
None of these archaeological relics would have existed if there weren’t an ancient Jewish kingdom within the Land of Israel.
This is Judah’s manifest destiny. This is the uncanny persistence of his youth, the anthem of his old.
By Meir Indor
As time went on, as would be expected of me, I lost more and more of my equipment—but not my gun or my tefillin.
By JTA
Do you remember where you were when Sandy Koufax said he would not play on Yom Kippur. The National Museum of American Jewish History is looking for you.
The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.
Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 children out of the ghetto.
The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.
Connections between the Jewish and American traditions of liberty.
Obama's visit remains a symbol that among us are those who still carry the ghetto mentality.
By Batya Medad
Recently, archaeologists have been back to Tel Shiloh looking for ancient treasures which will show what life had been like in Biblical times when Jewish pilgrims came to Shiloh to pray.
In cases where the Nazi regime judged that protest could spark attention from the broader German public, the decision was made for tactical reasons to appease rather than quell with brute force.
By Barry Rubin
Especially remarkable is the behavior of Esther. Warned of Haman’s plan, Esther wants to do nothing lest she place herself at risk.
Footage of how Purim was celebrated in Israel in the 1930s.
By Orat@Muqata
Jews of 14th century Jerusalem celebrated Purim on both the 14th and 15th of Adar.
Four Jews who will not celebrate Purim this year are Yitzhak Ames, Talia Ames, Kochava Even-Haim, and Avishai Schindler - all murdered by Hamas.
As a youth, MK Dr. Ruth Calderon was not satisfied with the secular treatment of Judaism she got in Israeli schools. So eventually she founded a secular yeshiva.
A cemetery in an oil rich province of Saudi Arabia may be the last vestige of Jewish life there.
By Orat@Muqata
Historically, the Christian residents of Bethlehem did not identify themselves as Arabs.
Hope is a vital part of visiting the death camps in Europe.
The Israeli phrase, 'Third time, Ice Cream' corresponds to the fact that the third time the ancient Israelites complained to God after the Exodus they got the manna.
65 years ago this week, 35 student soldiers set out from Jerusalem to bring much needed supplies to the kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc south of the city.
For Jews, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh – a.k.a. Judea and Samaria or the West Bank – form the very heartland of the homeland.
By Hadar Sela
The site of Tel Lachish shows evidence of human habitation in Israel spanning many different historic periods over thousands of years.
The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare cache of sacred vessels from the early days of the Kingdom of Judea.
Jerusalem's besiegers are a captive audience. It's time for Israel to speak.
By Hadar Sela
During the Hellenistic period, the city of Nysa-Scythopolis was founded. In 749 CE it was destroyed in the massive earthquake which hit the area.
This is one of those issues that ought to be shocking, but about which nothing is done. For years — I’ve written about this before — the Muslim waqf that controls the Temple Mount has been systematically destroying archaeological artifacts of Jewish provenance at the site.
By Orat@Muqata
The main holiday events took place on the last day of Sukkot, Hoshana Raba. The Gaon would lead the people around the Temple Mount, and then the crowd made its way to the Mount of Olives. After they climbed the mountain, they circled it seven times. A monumental stone marked the spot where God looked over the Temple Mount. The Gaon would sit on this stone as he spoke to the assembled crowd.
By Gil Lavie, Tazpit News Agency
Defying historical fact, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad continued his existential verbal attacks on the State of Israel, claiming Israel has no historical basis in the Middle East Region.
On the issue of demographics, the numbers make things quite clear that even before modern Zionism began, the city was Jewish and only Muslim repressive policies artificially kept the numbers of Jews down before the mid-19th century.
By Orat@Muqata
The ancient synagogue in Meron is located on a hill above the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Like other Galilean synagogues from the Byzantine era, its entrance faces south, towards Jerusalem. But what makes this synagogue special is a story from its later history.
There is an old rabbinic anecdote about a rabbi who was called on to deliver a eulogy for someone who had no redeeming social value whatsoever. The rabbi was hard pressed to think of anything positive to say about this person. So when he spoke he solemnly pronounced: “No matter how evil the deceased truly was, he was still a far better person than was his brother!”
By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
The message of the Biblical account of the Spies has tremendous relevance today, here in the modern State of Israel. With a nuclear threat from Iran, enemy states on its borders, the ever-constant fear of terrorism, and pressure from the International Community, Israel is not without its challenges. But it’s also the ‘Start Up Nation,’ with a healthy, growing economy when most of the world’s economies are failing.
Everybody reads comics. From the New York Times to the Post there is hardly any periodical published that doesn’t sometimes feature a cartoon or comic; some kind of drawn image with text to entertain or provide commentary. Even the Jewish Press. When most people think of comics they immediately think of fictional comic books that kids read or the comic strips in the daily newspapers for adults.