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Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Since reciting Kaddish is a concrete way of honoring a departed loved one, mourners are understandably anxious to do so at every possible opportunity. In most Ashkenazic congregations, mourners say Kaddish four times during Shacharit: after Korbanot, after Mizmor Shir Chanukat Ha’Bayit, after Aleinu, and after Shir Shel Yom. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press How do we effectively and optimally manage time? Our sages emphasize that both Avraham and Sarah led full lives: “And the life of Sarah was 100 years and 20 years and seven years.” The commentators stress that this verse’s emphasis on “years” is an indication that Sarah fully lived every one […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 On Thursday, following Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz’s returning his mandate to form a government to President Reuven Rivlin, and just before Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three criminal charges, a News 12 poll revealed that if the much abhorred third elections were […]

Photo Credit: Oromiya321/Wikimedia Commons The Palestinian Authority government’s silence over the murder of Dvir Sorek, a Jewish teenager, sends one clear message to the Palestinian public: It is fine to kill a Jew. At the Bir Zeit University (pictured), students celebrated the murder by handing out candies and praising the terrorists. The Palestinian Authority government […]

Photo Credit: TPS / Courtesy UN Population Award Ceremony – 2018 Doctors from the Save a Child’s Heart organization were honored this week by the United Nations for their crucial work in carrying out the delicate surgery on diseased hearts needed to keep small children alive. The organization, based in the Tel Aviv suburb of […]

Photo Credit: The White House L-R: Envoy Jason Greenblatt, Ambassador David Friedman, President Donald Trump, Adviser Jared Kushner A group of 250 rabbis in Israel signed and sent a letter to US President Donald Trump this week, expressing their congratulations and thanks for his foreign policy decisions regarding the State of Israel. The letter was […]

Photo Credit: Free images Anti-Semitism is still rising, not only in the United States but elsewhere around the world as well, according to the results of the latest global survey by the Anti-Defamation League. The data that were gathered are “troubling, to say the least,” the organization said Thursday when it released the update to […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 PM Benjamin Netanyahu In his response to the announcement of charges by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he believes the attorney general caved to pressure by State Attorney Shai Nitzan, who completes his term next month. The full indictment released […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Zaken,” “seivah,” “yashish,” “kashish,” “yashan,” and “atik” all mean old. Pirkei Avos (5:24) states that a person becomes a zaken at 60 and reaches seivah at 70. Based on this mishnah, Rabbi Avraham Bedersi HaPenini (1230-1300) argues that “seivah” describes someone older than a “zaken” (see also I Samuel 12:2 and […]