Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Ancho. Via Flickr Joe Biden Back in May 2011, when President Barack Obama gave the order to take out the founder and leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan, he virtually guaranteed his reelection one year later. President Donald Trump, who has already taken out one mega-terrorist, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press How do we evaluate the past? How do we spend our time in the present? How often do we think about the future? In his book The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life, Dr. Philip Zimbardo outlines six subjective time perspectives that people experience as […]

Photo Credit: Twitter screenshot Chabadniks overcome black attacker in Crown Heights. Chabad Updates tweeted late Thursday night: “Drama these minutes, an anti-Semitic attack by an African-American man on Troy Street and Union in the Chabad neighborhood of Crown Heights, a number of Chabadniks are trying to overcome the attacker.” In an update later in the […]

Photo Credit: Ali Khamenei’s website via Wikimedia Qasem Soleimani Qasem Soleimani, 62, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, responsible for terrorist operations around the Middle East, was killed late Thursday in an American airstrike at Iraq’s Baghdad Airport, the Pentagon reported. The Pentagon statement said that “at the direction of the president, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I was introduced to a wonderful guy that I like on so many levels. We have the same sense of humor, he is smart, ambitious, and we really seem to see eye to eye. He is however, a bit more modern in his approach to Yiddishkeit than I […]

Photo Credit: CLKER {Originally posted to the JNS website} Anyone who has, as I have, spent his professional life covering the Jewish world as a journalist is not likely to spend much time wondering why Jews are so smart. I don’t think that “genius” is the best word to describe those in the organized Jewish […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Mtattrain MTA New York City public bus (illustrative) Two unidentified, armed goons attacked a 15-year-old Jewish boy while on a public bus in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The attackers threatened Zachary Hershkovich at knife-point, grabbing his earbuds and his kipah while making anti-Semitic remarks, according to a report published by the New […]

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 […]