Jordan’s Princess Salma bint Abdullah II Makes History as First Female Pilot in Hashemite Kingdom

Photo Credit: Hashemite Royal Court King Abdullah II presents pilots’ wings to Princess Salma bint Abdullah II Jordan’s Princess Salma bint Abdullah II made history on Wednesday to become the first woman in the country to earn her wings as a military pilot. Clearly filled with paternal pride, the nation’s commander-in-chief, King Abdullah II pinned […]

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Tefillin On Time

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 […]

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Jacob’s Three Names

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: […]

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New Mind-Reading Technology

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 […]

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Is It Proper…? Should a person lend any significance to his dreams?

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 […]

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