Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press On the words “and G-d saw…our toil” (Devarim 26:7), our Sages comment in the Pesach Haggada: “This means the children.” Bringing up children (and students, who are also called children [Sifre]) constitutes toil and hard work – even if they are naturally obedient and refined. True education, at all levels, requires […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 Jerusalemites waiting to board a bus at a bus stop in the center of Jerusalem. (archive) Israel’s Transportation Ministry has announced a number of additional bus lines that stop service on Friday before the Sabbath will cease their operations earlier in the day. The ministry said the move […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Anti-Semitism is still fresh on our minds here in the tri-state area. Thank G-d the attacks have slowed down, but not completely ceased. The politicians have made their appearances and speeches and can now pat themselves on the back for doing something to combat this evil. It is important for us […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed and killed in Kew Gardens, Queens. The New York Times reported that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and nobody did anything to help. This article (which was later shown to be exaggerated) motivated social psychologists John M. Darley and Bibb Latané to attempt […]

Photo Credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90 A group of religious Jews on the Temple Mount. Hamas is calling for mass prayer rallies on Friday at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and in the Cave of the (Jewish) Patriarchs in Hebron (Maarat Hamachpelah) and other mosques in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip […]

Photo Credit: Esty Dziubov/TPS Heba Yazbak of the Raam Balad faction of the Joint (Arab) List Ron Keren, brother of terror victim Danny Haran who was murdered by Samir Kuntar in a 1979 terrorist attack, has called on the Attorney General to disqualify Israeli-Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Heba Yazbak from running in the upcoming […]

Photo Credit: PMO / Twitter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at IDF officers’ graduation at Base #1 The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is hosting on Thursday in Tel Aviv an event for the Mesarvot organization which promotes and supports inductees’ refusal to be recruited by the IDF. The conference will feature a number of recruits who […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Many people speculate about the arrival of self-driving cars, but the future of self-driving trucks is arguably even more important. Long-haul trucking is still at the heart of the economy with people driving long hours on monotonous highways to ensure that products and packages are delivered in a timely manner. The […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Two booklets I came across this week are from a distant land in what feels like a different world. They were published in 1958 and 1963, respectively, by the Sha’are Shalom Synagogue in Salisbury, Rhodesia, the colonial name for what is now Harare, Zimbabwe. Salisbury found itself home to an unlikely […]