Category: Israel

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had originally been invited to sit on the platform at the siyum alongside other eminent rabbis, but the invitation was withdrawn the day before the event, allegedly because of threats of audience disruption due to […]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 […]

Photo Credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90 Muslims on the Temple Mount (archive photo). Hundreds of Muslims rioted on Friday morning on the Temple Mount after their morning prayers. Israel Police said rioters began marching, yelling out nationalistic slogans and violating public order. Police entered the compound in response and dispersed the rioters. About 8,000 worshipers attended Friday’s […]

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Photo Credit: SVG FREE The Torah is filled with stories of valiant personalities, who took risks, who conquered insurmountable odds, who had faith, who persevered, and with God’s help, succeeded in their journey, in their mission, in their calling. At the beginning of the Book of Exodus, God reveals Himself to Moses at the famous […]

Photo Credit: wikicommons {Originally posted to the JNS website} Two pilots for United Airlines joined a rabbi traveling on their plane for a dance and seized the opportunity to wear tefillin after they touched down in the Bahamas on Monday, reported COLlive. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, secure: true […]

Photo Credit: Wikicommons Moses Speaks to Pharoah In this week’s Torah reading, Parshat Shemot, we move from the Book of Genesis, to the Book of Exodus; from stories about the founding family of the Jewish people, to the “Am Bnei Yisrael,” the nation of Israel in Galut, exile. And, who calls the Jews a nation […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press This week Moses ascends the world stage. Exactly when the party lists for the next election to the Knesset are being finalized, we are given a leadership workshop courtesy of the weekly parshah: A leader can grow up in the house of Pharaoh as “the prince of Egypt” but still not […]

Photo Credit: Rockland County DA Grafton Thomas Grafton Thomas, the African American man accused of stabbing five people, one critically, at a Chanukah Melave Malka gathering in Monsey, NY, on Thursday pleaded not guilty in Rockland County Court to attempted murder and several other charges. Last Monday, Thomas pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime […]