Category: Israel

Photo Credit: courtesy, Low family Cecile Low in her youth In the beautiful but remote town of Valhalla, New York under a cloudless blue sky, several dozen Jewish men huddled around the grave that was opened for Cecile Low, z’l, in the neatly manicured Sharon Gardens Jewish Cemetery in Westchester, chanting Kaddish, the traditional Jewish […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Rema (Shulchan Aruch 95), writes that it is a custom to take three steps forward before saying Shemone Esrei. The Darkei Moshe says this custom is based on the Rokeach who writes that the three steps correspond to the three times the word “vayigash – and he drew near” appear […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Parshas Vayigash tells us that Yaakov, before bringing his family to Egypt, “sent Yehudah ahead of him to prepare [l’horos] ahead of him in Goshen” (Bereishis 46:28). “L’horos,” says the Midrash, is related to the word “Torah.” Yaakov’s purpose in sending Yehudah ahead of him was to establish a yeshiva in […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “When they related to him all the words Yosef had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived” (Bereishis 45:27). Rashi tells us that these wagons hinted to the topic – eglah arufah – that Yosef […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Bazman1987 New York Hatzolah ambulance (illustrative) This may not have been the first time that Grafton E. Thomas attacked Jews in Monsey. The FBI has allegedly impounded a car registered to the mother of 37-year-old Grafton Thomas, the man suspected of stabbing Chanukah guests with a machete in the Monsey home […]

Photo Credit: David Garb Israeli startup TriEye on Thursday announced a collaboration with the German sports car manufacturer Porsche to further improve visibility and performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV). TriEye has developed Short-Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology, which enhances visibility in adverse weather and night-time conditions. Porsche plans to […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 Avigdor Lieberman While anti-Semitism is on the rise the world over, its ugliest manifestation may be taking place in Israel itself, where Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, is using a venomous anti-religious election campaign to convince the non-Jewish, Russian-olim community to vote for his party. Reporting for the […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Police monitor the scene in the aftermath of a stabbing attack at the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, N.Y., on Dec. 28, the seventh night of Hanukkah. {Originally posted to the JNS website} The doldrums of December took on new meaning this year—most especially for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Holiday cheer was […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Williamsburg Shomrim via NY Post Teenage gang in Brooklyn attacks Williamsburg shteibel while Jews are praying. Bad news for Jews in Gotham: not only were there more anti-Semitic incidents this past year in New York City, there was a massive gap between the number of incidents and the arrests that followed — […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Adam E. Moreira New York Police Department vehicle A Jewish woman was “physically harassed’ — a technical term that does not address the trauma she experienced in what was actually an attack — by two black teens (male and female) on the final day of 2019 in the Crown Heights section […]