Category: Israel

“We cannot rely on an election to solve our problems.” — Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), House Judiciary Committee chairman, Dec. 11, 2019, on the need to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump “Every legal precedent must begin at some point. … So, just because it involves the prime minister, we should delay the precedent for another time?” […]

Photo Credit: Noam revkin Fenton / Flash 90 Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat speaks during opening statements of a trilateral meeting between US National Security Adviser John Bolton and Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, at the Orient House in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. National Security Council Director Meir Ben-Shabbat is […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / TPS IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi Just two days before Iran kicked off a four-day joint naval military drill on Friday with Russia and China in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Aviv Kochavi told participants at a security conference “War is […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy, Lubavitch.com New York police maintain an emergency response base outside Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY (file) Anti-Semitism continues to rise in New York City, this time with two attacks over the weekend, both taking place in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. A black male in a […]

Photo Credit: Mila Aviv / Flash 90 The sun sets at the Ginosar beach at Lake Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel. The blessing of winter rain has brought with it the welcome relief of replenished waters into Israel’s top water supply. The Water Authority reported Saturday that over the past two days […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy NYC Mayor’s Office Mayor Bill de Blasio meets representatives of the Crown Heights Jewish community, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. The NYPD will increase its watch over synagogues around the city and add officers in Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, in response to the string of anti-Semitic attacks before and during Chanukah, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I recently acquired an entertaining invitation to the wedding of one of Rabbi Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg’s children. Rabbi Rosenberg (1859-1935) was the author of many sefarim and is most often remembered for reviving the story of the golem of the Maharal of Prague (He also wrote a sefer defending the use […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Close to 20 years ago, in response to criticism that psychology focused too much on disorders and diagnosis, Dr. Martin Seligman began to develop the field of positive psychology. The goal was to reinvigorate psychology by focusing on strategies that would help people flourish. One of his basic theories was that […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press In the story of Chanukah, the undisputed heroes are the families of devoted kohanim led by Matityahu who stood up to the pagan Hellenes. What is the etymology of “kohen” and how does it differ from “komer” and “galach”? The Bible also uses the word “kohen” in the context of idolatrous […]