Category: Israel

[embedded content] A suspicious balloon cluster was located on Shabbat in a neighborhood in Sderot near the Gaza Strip border. Police arrived at the scene and a police sapper dismantled an explosive charge that was attached to the cluster. No one was injured. Earlier on Shabbat, another cluster of balloons from the Gaza Strip carrying […]

Photo Credit: IDF IDF soldiers at the site of the stabbing in Hebron, Saturday, January 18, 2020 A Jewish man, 22, was moderately injured in a stabbing incident on Tzir Hamitpalelim, the road connecting Kiryat Arba to the Patriarchs’ Cave in Hebron. MDA teams arrived at the site and provided him with medical treatment, then […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Do you ever feel like bedtime is never over in your house? Are you up and down the stairs a million times before it’s finally quiet? Are you constantly getting cups of water? Do you get up in the middle of the night to change the sheets? In my experience, a […]

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 […]