Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch explains that earth is called “aretz” since at its root is the word “ratz,” to run. He elaborates that from cradle to grave all of us are running. This is especially true in today’s world of e-mails and texts, two-income homes, and skyrocketing costs. If we want […]

Photo Credit: Shomrei Emunah Kedusha. That is the word that kept reverberating through my mind as I walked into the Shomrei Emunah synagogue and it only heightened throughout my visit. I knocked on the door of the magnificent edifice at the corner of 52nd Street and 14th Avenue in Borough Park and was greeted by […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press When one contemplates the qualities of a leader, one might reach the conclusion that a leader is someone who can influence his people to follow his ideas and is able to inspire them to action. Perhaps equally, however, a leader is one who is so dedicated to his people and to […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz (((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) It’s pretty bad out there. Enslavement, taskmasters, pain, and no rest. The Jews in Egypt cry for help and God hears. But before the Delivered can be sent, he has to be built up. Malkah joins Yishai for the backstory of the great prophet Moses and […]

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Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz If your enemy says he wants to kill you, believe him! And, yet, many Jews are drawn to causes and leaders who aspire to destroy both Jews and the Jewish state. And why was Moses – modest, speech-impeded, identifiably Egyptian – drawn to fight for the underdog? What does it take […]

Photo Credit: New York City Tourism Bureau. Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan, New York. The New York Department of Education (DOE) will organize field trips to New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan for eighth- and 10th-grade students from the […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was disinvited to last week’s massive Siyum HaShas at London’s Wembley Arena. He had originally been invited to sit on the platform at the siyum alongside other eminent rabbis, but the invitation was withdrawn the day before the event, allegedly because of threats of audience disruption due to […]

Photo Credit: Schonfeld family archives Dr. Schonfeld (wearing cap) greeting a boat of children. When the world turned upside down and evil men decided to wipe out a whole nation, what could just one person do to stop them? When no one was interested in sending their children to Jewish schools, what could just one […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Clergymen gather in the Manger Square outside the Church of Nativity in the city of Bethlehem {Originally posted to the JNS website} There’s no escaping controversy any time that Israel or the Palestinians are mentioned. That’s a lesson the producers, writers and star of the long-running “Jeopardy!” television game show learned to […]