Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Yissochor is a strong-boned donkey, resting among the boundaries. He saw tranquility that it was good and the land that it was pleasant, and he bent his shoulder to bear the burden, and he was an indentured laborer” (Bereishis 49:14) The Chofetz Chaim explains that a Torah scholar exerts himself in […]

Photo Credit: Meir Vaknin/Flash90 A military truck evacuates Israelis through a flooded road in the northern city of Nahariyya, on a stormy winter day, January 8, 2020. This week has seen two major storms that raged from the Golan heights and Nahariyya in the north to the northern Negev and everything in between. Here’s a […]

Photo Credit: Owen Jones / Wikipedia / Public Domain (((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) First, Noam Arnon joins Yishai Fleisher to discuss why Jacob, who is dying in Egypt, asks to be buried in Hebron in the Land of Israel. Then, Rabbi Dani Eisenstock on standing with the Jews of the Diaspora after a spate […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Mr. Teicher was a special-ed teacher, who provided service through the city’s SEIT (Special Education Itinerant Teacher) program. He met individually with students in their school and billed the city for his sessions. Aharon Blau was one of Mr. Teicher’s regular students. He met with him every Wednesday morning at 10 […]

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Photo Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Polish president Andrzej Duda, September 26, 2018 Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday pulled out of an upcoming event in Jerusalem marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp after being denied the opportunity to make a speech at the […]

Photo Credit: Peter Haas / CC BY-SA 3.0 EL AL flight LY26 from Newark, New Jersey to Ben Gurion Airport was forced to land at Halifax Airport in Canada, following a smoke alarm on board the plane. Halifax Airport The alarm was sounded about an hour and a half after takeoff, over the Atlantic, and […]

Photo Credit: CBS-NY 2 News live coverage screen grab Machete attacker Thomas Grafton, 37, in NYPD police custody on Dec 29 2019 Grafton Thomas, suspected of carrying out a Hanukkah machete attack that wounded five Jews in Monsey during a Saturday night Chanukah Melaveh Malka meal Dec. 28, 2019, was indicted by a federal grand […]

Photo Credit: SANA Sedqi Al-Makat The Israeli government on Thursday approved the release of two Syrian prisoners, Amal Abu Saleh and Sudki Al-Makat, the latter known as the oldest Syrian prisoner in Israel. Their release is a goodwill gesture for the return of the remains of Zechariah Baumel. Baumel was an American-Israeli soldier who lost […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony Two Israeli F-35 Adirs fly in formation Air strikes were reported late Thursday night close to the Iraq-Syria border, at the Syrian town of Albukamal. The strikes were being attributed to the Israeli Air Force by the Hezbollah-linked Al Mayadeen news network and […]