Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Ordering your bar mitzvah boy’s tefillin so that they will be ready when you need them is an art form. A friend was sharing her disappointment that her son’s tefillin would not be arriving in time for him to put them on a month before his actual bar mitzvah, as is […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Jewish people’s third patriarch had three names: Yaakov, Yisrael, and Yeshurun. “Yaakov” is derived from the root ayin-kuf-bet, which means heel; the Torah tells us that he received this name because he was born holding onto his older brother heel (Genesis 25:26). Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Ever wished you could read someone’s mind or know what he or she is truly feeling? If that seems impossible to you – something that science fiction novels are made of – you might want to think again. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is working on […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps The Gulf of Oman The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has barred American pilots and carriers from flying through the air space of Iran, Iraq, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, in the wake of Wednesday’s Iranian missile attack on two air bases in Iraq where American forces are […]

[embedded content] US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday in a speech delivered to the nation at 11 am that “Iran appears to be standing down” – good news to those who had spent the dark hours till dawn chewing their nails and wondering whether World War III was finally about to erupt at last. [embedded […]

Photo Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Marija Milic Hebrew University Professor Hagai Levine (L) and PhD student Marija Milic For decades, doctors have warned us about the health risks of smoking. However, their warnings focused on the physical risks that cigarettes pose to our health, such as lung cancer, heart disease, low birth weight, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press/123rf.com Should a person lend any significance to his dreams?   Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Any significance? Definitely, although we will struggle to define what. Almost at bookends of Tanach, Yosef and Daniel interpret dreams to […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Only partially tongue-in-cheek do I assert that Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was (aptly) named after the airport in Queens. (One of the many reforms that he brought to the City was in the realm of transportation.) LaGuardia’s tenure as three-term mayor of New York City was so famous – totally dwarfing his […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press If you want to understand what a book is about, look carefully at how it ends. Genesis ends with three deeply significant scenes. First, Jacob blesses his grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh. This is the blessing that Jewish parents use on Friday night to bless their sons. My predecessor L-rd Jacobovits used […]

Photo Credit: Starrfruit / Wikipedia Seal of the New York State Assembly, the lower house of NY state’s legislature. Just days after the start of 2020, New York Democratic Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein is pushing for changes to the state’s new bail-reform law, which allows for people charged with certain crimes to be released from jail […]