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Photo of the Day

Jerusalem's Best Kept Secret

By Photo of the Day

Welcome to Lifta spring. One of Jerusalem's best kept secrets. Green, water and swimming near the entrance to Jerusalem... if you know where to look. Great for a hot summer day.   Lifta spring is first mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Joshua, as the water of Niphtoach. 15:8 And the border went up […]

A Soldier's Mother

The Blessings of Rain

By Paula R. Stern

People are complaining about floods and traffic and the cold and through it all, there is this amazing joy.

News Briefs

Martin Indyk: U.S. Thought Israel Was Going to Attack in Spring

By Jewish Press News Desk

In an interview with former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk on Galei Tzahal radio Thursday morning, Indyk stated that the US was expecting an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities this past spring.

Israel / News Briefs

Arab Attacks 60 Year Old Man at Abraham's Well in Hebron

By Malkah Fleisher

A video uploaded to YouTube by English Spokesperson for Hebron David Wilder shows a stream of blood on the rocks of the Abraham's Well underground spring, following a near-fatal rock attack by a local Arab on a 60 year old Jewish man who came to immerse in the spring.

IDF & Security / Global

Israel Defense Industry To Display Cutting-Edge Innovations at Paris Military Exhibition

By Solomon Burke

Among the innovations that will be showcased are hand-held through-the-wall radars, mini-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), robots, and frequency-hopping radios. The exhibition will take place from June 11th-15th, and will include over 1,400 exhibitors from around the globe.

Lessons In Emunah

German Bullies, A Milk Bucket, And Divine Providence

By Ed Lion

Judaism holds that nothing happens by chance, that everything is orchestrated by Hashem. And so it was long ago on a Sunday morning, about a month after Pesach when my father ran an errand for his parents.

Knesset Corner

Knesset Calls Special Session; Migron Bills on Agenda

By Jeremy Saltan

Two bills that were shelved back in January will be discussed following Likud MK Danny Danon's success in attaining 25 MKs' signatures to call a special session during the Knesset's 39-day spring recess.

News Briefs

Egyptian Gas Pipeline to Israel Blown Up Yet Again

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan was hit by an explosion on Monday for 14th time since last spring's uprising against President Hosni Mubarak began. Reuters reports that the blast took place in the northern Sinai, at the town of El-Arish. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The pipeline has […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF to Become 'Kosher for Passover' by Thursday

By Tibbi Singer

As of Thursday, the Military Rabbinate will render all IDF bases kosher for the Jewish holiday of Passover. After weeks of heavy-duty spring cleaning, soldiers across the IDF will be joined in the field by military rabbis who will certify the bases and assist if need be. By the end of the day, with the mission accomplished, the IDF will be declared Kosher for Passover.

Teens and Twenties

‘Living in De Nile’

By Donyel Meese

I love Pesach. Really, I do. Even with the stress and preparation associated with March Madness (I still have no idea why my father thinks it has anything to do with basketball), I enjoy it. Maybe it's because of my mother's spinach kugel, or the way I still love actively searching for the afikoman.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

Khaled Abu Toameh: Arabs Are Beginning to Miss the Dictators

By Khaled Abu Toameh

The "Arab Spring" is anything but a "great revolution." It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon's Maronite Church, put it. "We are with the Arab Spring but we are not with this spring of violence, war, destruction and killing," he told Reuters. "This is turning to winter. We cannot implement reforms by force and arms. How can it be an Arab Spring when people are being killed every day?"

Op-Eds

Slow, Steady Growth

By Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

After three-plus years of economic challenge and uncertainty, we remain anxious for positive news, the kind that will finally let us believe the worst is fully behind us. Unfortunately, the outlook for the 2012 global economy remains uninspiring: recession in Europe, anemic growth in the U.S. and a sharp slowdown in China and other emerging-market economies all weigh on economist forecasts.

Editorial

Postponing Those Joint Maneuvers: A Very Big Deal

By Editorial Board

No one in the know is talking about the reason(s) for the abrupt postponement of the of those much ballyhooed joint U.S.-Israel military maneuvers that had been scheduled for this spring.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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