Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Courtesy In a recent article by Rabbi Chananya Weissman, he disparages the whole idea of women learning Gemara and Daf HaYomi. This reminds me of the time my daughter wanted to attend a seminary not exactly in line with our Hashkafa and when we consulted with a relatively right wing Rabbi, he responded; […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 Joint Arab List MKs Heba Yazbak, Mtanes Shehadeh, and Mansur Abas, April 29, 2019. Senior officials of the Joint Arab List are saying that although Blue&White has joined the petition to disqualify Arab MK Heba Yazbak from running, the Arab list does not intend to announce that they wuld not […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Betina Thorball {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Ancient Roots Israel 2020  was meant to be a conference where people from all over Israel could hear herbalists speak in English.  The organizers had high expectations for the event. It was to be a meeting of people from all walks of […]

Photo Credit: lash90. Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 28, 2019, ahead of Israeli National Holocaust Remembrance Day. {Originally posted to the JNS website} At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Jan. 23, some 46 political leaders and royals, including Britain’s Prince Charles, will be attending the fifth World […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 Gazans receive their Qatari money. May. 19, 2019 Despite the fact that Hamas terrorists have renewed and escalated their attacks against Israel, Qatar will once again deliver a fresh installment of cash to poor families in the enclave on Tuesday. Qatar’s deputy envoy, Khaled al-Hardan is slated […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO Israel Security Agency (ISA) Director Nadav Argaman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Security Agency Director Nadav Argaman awarded prizes Monday morning for outstanding agents and operations of the Shin Bet. Speaking at the award ceremony to honor operational and intelligence achievements that took place in 2019, Argaman […]

Photo Credit: Hatzalah Without Borders of Judea and Samaria Window smashed by stone-throwing terrorists in Judea A father and his daughter were hurt Monday night in a terrorist attack that took place near the Arab village of Tuqu’a, located next to the Jewish community of Tekoa in eastern Gush Etzion. The 50-year-old father, who was […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay / Geralt illustrative only In the town of Cary, North Carolina, a court has been faced with the challenge of parsing out the difference between mental illness and anti-Semitism, in the most difficult circumstances possible: when the defendant is the child of a colleague. William Josephus Warden, 21, is the son of […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Rav Avraham Gershon of Kitov was a scholar in the beis medrash of Brodi. This modest and unassuming man possessed such wondrous qualities that the great Nodah B’Yehudah, in a responsum, referred to him, in part, as follows: “The complete and all-encompassing scholar, the hallowed pious one, light of Israel, the […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press If you live in Brooklyn or anywhere in New York City, you have been experiencing a strangely warm winter so far. But that doesn’t mean that things won’t take a turn as winter is only just getting started. So let’s prepare with some essential winter accessories! Snow BootsMy old snow boots […]