Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: Should the congregation say “Amen” after the berachah of “habocher b’amo Yisrael b’ahavah” (right before Shema)? I have seen different shuls do different things. M. Goldman Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); We noted last week that the Mishnah Berurah […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In Parshas Vayechi, Yaakov tells Yosef, “While I was coming from Padan, Rachel died on me…and I buried her there on the wayside” (Bereishis 48:7). Rashi writes: “I buried her there by Divine command so that she would be of assistance to her children when Nevuzradan [of Babylonia] would lead them […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Naftali Bennett and Bezalel Smotrich, November 13, 2017 New Right party leader and Defense Minister Naftali Bennett and National Union party chairman and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich have reportedly agreed to run together in the upcoming election this March. The two men met several times this past week […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, If I hear I am being too ‘picky’ one more time I will explode! I am not picky, frankly – I am barely discerning. I am merely trying to feel a connection with my dates. How do I explain to well-meaning family and friends that they are making […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The long exile of the Jewish people has contributed to an often intense yearning for the messiah, at times leading to attempts to locate the lost tribes of the Jews and perhaps speed up the ultimate redemption. A record of one such interesting attempt is recorded in a book I acquired […]

Photo Credit: Micah Bond/Flash90 Torah Scribe Jamie Shear in the Old City of Jerusalem. Not a few rabbinical eyebrows were raised last week in Israel when Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute for Technology and Halacha, declared that, under certain conditions, a robot could write a kosher Sefer Torah. While the idea may […]

Photo Credit: From the Steinfeldt Photography Collection of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. Hadassah members leaving on an Israel Bonds tour. Israel completed a successful bond issue on Wednesday, selling $3 billion worth of government bonds, despite the government’s large budgetary deficit and prolonged political gridlock. Israel’s Treasury issued $2 billion worth […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press As we sat last week in MetLife Stadium surrounded by 90,000 of our jubilant brothers and sisters, we were in a state of high excitement. Now, however, many of us are struggling with personal angst. We dearly wish to be amongst the ranks of the next misaymim but we just don’t […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Regavim Palestinian Authority builds illegal school with European Union funding in Nahal Machoch Nature Reserve on Israeli state land, Nov 19 2019 Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday appointed Kobi Eliraz to head Israel’s campaign against illegal Arab construction in Area C in Judea and Samaria and head off the Palestinian Authority’s […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Gemara in the beginning of Avoda Zara describes a peculiar conversation that will take place in the end of days. Hashem will bring a Torah scroll and say whomever occupied himself with the Torah shall come and take his reward. Immediately, the nations of the world will gather in disarray. […]