Author: Sara Wood

Photo Credit: courtesy Sheba Medical Center Israel Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response team (Sheba Medical Center) at Ben-Gurion Airport prior to departure for Samoa A team of medical experts from Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer flew to Samoa on Sunday following an urgent request from the World Health Organization (WHO), as the […]

Photo Credit: screenshot {Originally posted to the author’s blog, The Lid} Seventy-two years ago the United Nations passed Resolution 181  which called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (back then Jews living in the Holy Land were called Palestinians).  It was approved on November 29, 1947, with […]

Photo Credit: IDF IDF soldiers on routine patrol near Hebron. IDF fighters neutralized a Palestinian Authority terrorist cell on Saturday night as he was attacking an Israeli motorist traveling in Judea near the village of Beit Awwa. “During an operational activity of IDF fighters to thwart terrorist attacks near Beit Awa village in the Judea […]

Photo Credit: Karimobo / Wikimedia Commons Casablanca, Morocco One Israeli is dead and two others were injured after they were hit by a bus at around 3:30 pm Friday in Casablanca. The victim, a student of the Shuva Yisrael Yeshiva, was crushed to death between two buses, according to reports by the Hebrew-language Ynet site […]

Photo Credit: Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Low Memorial Library at Columbia University, NYC Members of Columbia University’s student council voted last Sunday to hold a divestment referendum in the spring of 2020, enabling students to vote on whether to divest “from companies that profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s acts towards Palestinians […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 Left-wing activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to resign, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv. Last week it was a pro-Netanyahu rally, this weekend it is an anti-Netanyahu protest. At least 10,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night for a […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The discussion at the Shabbat table revolved around the subject of leadership. What exactly is the Jewish view on the parameters of being a leader and what responsibilities should one have when assuming a leadership role? Some of the prerequisites that evolved in our discussion were that a leader must not […]

[embedded content] Usman Khan, 28, the Pakistani who carried out a stabbing attack on London Bridge on Friday at 1:58 PM local time, murdering a man and a woman and injuring three others, “was known to authorities,” according to the London Metropolitan Police, “having been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses. He was released from […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press All of us aspire to acquire the Keser Torah, the crown of Torah. But Torah is vastly different than any other branch of knowledge. If you want to master calculus or physics, for example, you need to have brains, a good teacher, and disciplined study habits. For Torah you need more. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: I find myself in a very delicate situation and am calling upon your halachic expertise. I am the rabbi in a small town of a very close-knit community with a small Orthodox minyan. We have two boys who are exactly the same age and will reach the age of bar […]