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By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Dvorah Lea Raichman, co-director of Chabad Manaus, in the Amazon region of Brazil, speaks to us about how to cultivate in our children a love of mitzvot (commandments) and a love of serving G-d (Hashem.)
By JNi.Media
Spielberg called his mom “my lucky charm” during his 1994 Academy Award acceptance speech for Best Director, for Schindler’s List.
By Anonymous
What follows is story of a regular family and a tragedy that unfolded while we were not looking.
The Greek royal family had been well acquainted with the family of Haimaki Cohen, a Jewish former member of Parliament, from northern Greece.
By Paula Stern
Israel has been attacked from 3 fronts in the last week. A rocket landed in the Golan Heights; air raid sirens wailed in Eilat without warning; and Gaza fired a rocket landed on the Ashkelon beach.
By Paula Stern
I am a Jew. I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew. I was also born a woman. Never once in my life have I felt those to collide or contradict and I pity anyone who feels that they do.
By Paula Stern
Senegal sees no issue in taking our aid and then supporting an anti-Israel resolution, one-sided, unfair, completely out of proportion to what Palestinians are doing.
By Paula Stern
"How...how do parents say good bye to their children in the morning as they leave home...and then bury them that night?" How?
By JNi.Media
On Monday, Jan. 9, an Israeli court rules on the sentencing for the terrorist who murdered Danny Gonen.
By Paula Stern
In today's attack, one soldier is seen running towards the attack, only to stop and turn back. Then dozens of others are seen running away from the truck that rammed into the soldiers.
By Paula Stern
Elor Azarya is a soldier of Israel. 10 months ago we sent him into battle. His friend was stabbed in that battle. Elor raised his gun and shot the terrorist. It wasn't murder. It wasn't even manslaughter.
By Paula Stern
Not only was Elor Azariya slapped in the face, but every soldier with a gun. The message is they must, in the middle of battle, stop and think what some idiot judge will think of their action.
By Paula Stern
The problem with listening to John Kerry is that within minutes you start to get a headache - and that's the best I can say.
The idea for the book came from Filreis who turned to art in 2005 after a bout with cancer.
A loving memorial to two great pillars of the venerable The Jewish Press
A new 'Mother of All Intifadas' is being planned against Israel. Why?
By Paula Stern
I continue to read messages blaming me and others like me for the Trump victory because we dared to argue that Hillary Clinton was not an option. But how can I be blamed when I didn't vote for Trump?
By Paula Stern
A guy in the makolet shouts, “But I must go to the front of the line!” He is holding a box of toothbrushes and a lot of toothpaste. WHY?
By Paula Stern
How can you possibly understand the horror of watching your land burn? It is an open wound you don't forget for a moment, a thought that stays in your mind as you go about your day.
By Paula Stern
I'll give up the fires, the stoning attacks and more...thank you for visiting my site, really but I don't need 10,000 people a day to come here...my country needs peace. We need the fires to end.
By Paula Stern
Trump's mandate for the next four years should also mean a renewed examination into the behavior and actions of the media. The camera was always meant to share the picture, not create it.
Our heroes will fight to stop the fires and they'll take the time to rescue the Torah scrolls that contain our faith, our dedication, the promise God made to us to give us this land.
By Paula Stern
Finally, a story that won't "DRIVE" you crazy and which has a happy ending...
By Paula Stern
Israel has become the greatest of Sukkahs for the Jewish people - it is truly here that we are safe in a way we do not feel anywhere else in the world.
By Paula Stern
What bothers me most at this point, is two things. The first is that America is being manipulated. The second is that, in part, it is crossing red lines to do this.
By Paula Stern
"Where are you?" he asks. "I'm in the office. The car is at Ammunition Hill. Do you need to take it?" There was a brief hesitation. "There was an attack at Ammunition Hill."
By Paula Stern
In my little country today, we were hit by a missile. The siren sounded; the red alert was announced. Children, panicked and frightened, were hurried into bomb shelters
By Paula Stern
The debate was nasty, ugly. Trump called her Secretary Clinton; she called him Donald.
By Paula Stern
Maybe there is reason for optimism: Today Israel has diplomatic relations with over 160 countries, nearly double the number Israel had when Netanyahu served as Israel’s ambassador some 30 years ago.
By Paula Stern
"it's Elul and we need the shofar, especially this morning. Two police, did you hear?" "Yes" I answered sadly. "They should have a complete recovery." "Amen," I said and watched as he blew the shofar.
By Paula Stern
There's a growing tendency in the world to deal with terrorism by denying it. Regardless of who set those bombs in New York, it wasn't an accident-It was terrorism.
By Paula Stern
I considered the question, "Should we pray for Peres?" struggled with it for barely a second, and knew we should be because he's a Jew, because he's a human being.
By Paula Stern
In the last few years, terror attacks in the US and Europe have clearly become more common. I question not the interpretation of the fact, but the almost-desperate need to manipulate and deny it. Why?
By Paula Stern
And then, in horror, as I watched, the second plane hit. I started to cry as the shocked voices could be heard through the television; I started to pray, "Oh God,
Today I got up from sitting shiva for my beloved mother, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. I looked for her but her chair was empty. The pain is raw. Where is my beautiful Ema?
By Paula Stern
Those screaming out from below the rubble begging Israelis to come help them, were definitely foreign workers or Palestinians. Do you see any hesitation among the Israeli rescue workers? ZERO
By Paula Stern
Into the commanders' errors, entered a young soldier. What that soldier thought and did CANNOT be judged by those who were not there, who rely on a manipulated video that tells only part of the story
By Paula Stern
For Israelis, the Olympics comes each time with tremendous emotional baggage. We remember the 1972 Munich Olympics when the Israeli squad was taken hostage and subsequently slaughtered by the PLO
By Paula Stern
When it comes to the Jews, Israel's government rarely hesitates to block our access, restrict our rights, humiliate and insult Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, while it's Arabs instigating trouble
By Paula Stern
Dear Donald, If you want to win this election, you need to convince more Americans to be pro-Trump rather than just anti-Clinton.
By Paula Stern
Twelve years...how could it be twelve years since that fateful, horrible summer when Israel acted unilaterally, stupidly, leaving Gush Katif
By Paula Stern
Congratulations to the Israeli team for acting with dignity and self-respect and not escalating the conflict with the Lebanese and for making us all proud.
By Paula Stern
Arranging a holiday in Israel can be very interesting. It seems like the whole country goes on vacation at the same time
By Paula Stern
The hypocrite says that the Palestinian Authority will NOT allow Israel to hold on to the dead bodies of terrorists, presumably those who died in the act of terror and those who caught afterwards.
By Paula Stern
What will it take for the world to be able to say - without lowering their voices - this was the work of Islamic extremism? This was Islamic terror? All Muslims...no. No. NO.
By Paula Stern
Nothing like keeping cool on the army base on Shabbat with some help from some friends
By Paula Stern
I hope Trump wins, because Israel deserves better treatment than it got from Obama or will get from Clinton and Caine, who supported Obama's ongoing attempts to humiliate and insult Israel's leaders.
By Paula Stern
There are days that are roller coasters of emotion here in Israel. The hint of a soldier's death brings terror and pain; When a terrorist attack has been averted, the sun shines a bit brighter,
By Paula Stern
Peace will come when families can drive safely without concern of being shot.
By Paula Stern
This has never been a life and death struggle for the Palestinians. No one is threatening their lives;
By Paula Stern
"The fact is, I can name no less than five right-wing bloggers who have decided to give TOI a pass rather than put up with any more abuse. "
By Paula Stern
Thursday, they murdered a 13 year old child in her bed; Friday, they murdered a father of ten. Today, we bury him. Tomorrow, we will stand up, in pain, in anger and faith. We will be strong...tomorrow
By Paula Stern
You [God] gave me a present and now I am returning it to You. Take her. She is the flesh of our flesh. Hug her, because I will never again be able to touch her. Make room for her, so she can dance.
By Paula Stern
There are days that the anger chokes you. Well, to the Times of Israel Staff, congratulations. I'm choking. I can only pray Hallel's parents are not reading your paper's reporting of the TERROR attack
By Paula Stern
Our children grow in this land of Israel, strong and proud. We march through the streets of our land, unafraid and yet committed to helping others, seeking peace, treating others with respect.
By Paula Stern
Here in Israel, soldiers are an integral part of our society. The army not only knows this but encourages this. Yes, God protect them, they fight in wars but they protect us in our daily lives.
By Paula Stern
Though it is essential in a democracy to have an active opposition, Herzog has gone too far by attempting to subvert, undermine, weaken the government, and therefore the country itself.
By Paula Stern
A characteristic many don't see at first glance, or fail to recognize at all, is that Israelis are actually very kind people.
By Paula Stern
The funerals continue here, and the stories of who they were and what they were able to accomplish before their lives were cut short will bring you to your knees.
By Guest Author
I want to be Israeli because I want my children to be Israeli. I want them to be Israeli so that they don't feel like they have to hide, or live in a cloistered ghetto. I want them to be full and free
The thirty-eight year old mother of six, two of whom were adopted, no longer “enjoyed life,” as reported by her grief-stricken neighbors.
By Paula Stern
Who Am I? I am a Jew whose family was forever changed by the Holocaust; I am an Israeli, forever ready to welcome the world's Jews and more, ready to send our sons to protect our Nation
By Paula Stern
Israel is not perfect, but it is the one place Ive been that actually strives for perfection; Israel is a place where I don't feel out of place--even though I am not Jewish.
By Paula Stern
All over Israel, Israeli flags are flying. The next 24 hours are among the hardest in Israel: Tomorrow night we will celebrate but before we do, we will mourn with all our hearts.
By Paula Stern
Sadiq Khan, London's newly elected Mayor and lawyer to terrorists, might just inspire London's Jews to come home to Israel
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.
By Paula Stern
Tonight, as I sit here, a memorial candle burning nearby, I check the news. Five mortars were fired at Israel today
By Paula Stern
My son Davidi has been drafted - into Givati...Givati is one of the units of ground forces. Givati can be in the most dangerous places.
By Paula Stern
What I feel for the Nazis is timeless, endless and without bounds. It is a hatred so deep, it borders on poison
By Paula Stern
Despite Israel's victory in the 6 Day War, in a move of monumental stupidity, Israel's Moshe Dayan handed over the keys to the Temple Mount to Jordan.
By Paula Stern
There is nothing like Chol Hamoed in Israel...
By Paula Stern
The sound of the explosion is deafening...so too is the silence of the world.
By Paula Stern
Today's bus bombing in Jerusalem was not about the occupation nor supposed economic hardships. It is...it was...it always will be about hatred.
By Paula Stern
Bernie, it sounds great when you tell the cameras you're "proud to be Jewish" but you need to be proud you are a Jew - a noun, Bernie, not an adjective. That's what it is to be a Jew - it is not a description, it is the essence..
By JNi.Media
“She was throwing decoy flights all over the place,” a source said.
By Paula Stern
Manslaughter? For doing the right thing? When his own commanding officer admits the terrorist was NOT neutralized and that he feared the terrorist was armed with a bomb?
By JNi.Media
Jewish mothers instill resilience in their daughters to combat body dissatisfaction, which can lead to eating disorders.
The bodies of two murdered children have returned to their mother in Ohio to be laid to rest.
The God of Global Warming is the embodiment of liberalism and holds all the politically correct beliefs while carrying out brutal atrocities in the name of the left's favorite political causes.
Rav Soloveitchik stated that "to me it is something vulgar, this clamor of the liberals that abortion be permitted."
The father sent an email to a friend saying he was suicidal before the shootings.
When I started to speak and my words drowned in tears, it was she who comforted me.
By Adi Moses
With your decision to release the murderer you spit on the graves of my mother and my brother.
By Paula Stern
Hirsi Ali was handed the microphone and, 16 months later, her words remain imprinted on my brain: "Even if you give them Jerusalem, there will be no peace."
By Guest Author
After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.
לְפַנֵּק In many countries all over the world yesterday it was Mothers Day - יוֹם הָאֵם, in Hebrew. Here's a song by Arik Einstein dedicated to his mother. I venture to say it might be sung for most mothers. One of the lines in the song is: אִמָּא, אִמָּא אַתְּ פִּנַּקְתְּ אֹתִי Mom, mom, you […]
By Rachel Weiss
Our Jewish calendar is based on the lunar year, and Rosh Chodesh, literally the head of the month, occurs when the moon renews itself. It is a holiday — in that we daven mussaf, just like on Shabbos and Yomim Tovim, we do not conduct fasts, and the pious among our people eat a special seudah. Traditionally, women do not sew on Rosh Chodesh and refrain from performing heavy-duty tasks.
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.
I have not done this before. I have never memorialized two of the closest people to me in one article. I gave it a lot of thought, and it is not just because they died within hours of each other two years ago that I decided to do this. It is also because there was a tremendous connection between them, and as I thought of each one I was overwhelmed by the similarities.
By Chelsea Mosery Tazpit News Agency
Israeli doulas have formed a group of volunteers who are offering their services free of charge to the residents of the south.
By Tzvi Fishman
So know that I am with you. So is your mother. The whole Shabbat, she waited for the moment she could turn on the radio to learn what was happening.
By Sandy Eller
Tofu. For most of us, the word conjures up images of a spongy white unpalatable mass that is best left on the shelf of our local health food emporium. But for New Jersey resident David Mintz, tofu is a magical substance that holds endless possibilities, particularly for the kosher consumer.
Dear Dr. Respler: I am currently involved in a yearlong custody battle over my three children, who are all under the age of 10. I did not want or provoke this situation. My wife – with limited success – continues to enlist the children over to her side in her declared war on me. I, […]
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.
There it was, a backyard full of my basement furniture, and bags and bags of waterlogged papers.
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.
By JTA
The sister of a Belgian Nazi leader hid three Jews in her home near Brussels during the Holocaust, according to one of the survivors.
“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, […]
I recently interviewed Mrs. Tziporah Lifshitz of Maaleh Adumim, Israel about the recent posthumous publication of the book A Day Is A Thousand Years, Human Destiny and the Jewish People, authored by her late father, Dr. Zvi Faier, and edited by Tziporah and her mother, Chaya.
