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Photo Credit: Ricky Harris / The White House US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met on Tuesday with Israeli health officials to discuss opening an Israeli branch of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a Treasury spokesperson told JNS. Calcalist first reported the meeting. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 Blue and White party chairperson Benny Gantz speaks at the annual Board of Governors’ meeting in Jerusalem, on October 28, 2019. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that if he succeeds in becoming Israeli’s next premier, he will “embrace all streams of Judaism.” Addressing Jewish […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay / Darko Stojanovic illustrative New York health officials are warning that dozens of people have become sick from a parasitic infection in the Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Boro Park and Williamsburg, according to a report published Wednesday on the BoroPark24.com news site. Orthodox Jewish news media were told by a New […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: What did our sages mean when they said that anyone who resides outside the Land of Israel is like an idol worshipper? Is that what all of us residing outside Israel are – idol worshippers? M. Goldblum(Via E-Mail) Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Certainly we know that Jews should be giving people. But why? It’s a religious imperative, of course, but there’s also an added benefit: Giving seems to lead to increased mental health and life expectancy. Some studies indicate that caregivers (even for non-family members) and those who consistently volunteer live longer than […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 Palestinian Islamic Jihad members march during a military drill near the border with Israel, east of the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2018. (JNS) Since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Palestinian terror factions have turned Gaza into […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s Parsha, we read about the mabul. Immediately following the mabul the Torah tells us that Noach planted a vineyard. The pasuk says “vayachel Noach ish ha’adama vayita kerem” (9:20). Rashi explains that the word vayachel comes from the word chulin and the Torah is teaching us that Noach […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The upright Baldwin piano that arrived at our home in Jerusalem on a lift of furniture that my parents had organized and paid for had not initially been expected. It worked out well that my father and most of my uncles had been in the furniture business. We received all of […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Amid all the drama of the impending flood and the destruction of almost all of creation, we focus on Noach building the ark, and hear one detailed instruction: “Make a tzohar for the ark and terminate it within a cubit of the top” (Bereishis 6:16). There is a difficulty understanding what […]