Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Mordechai Lightstone via Twitter Anti-Semitic post-it note found at Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, May 30 2019 Considering the numerous reports of anti-Semitic attacks both here and in Europe, I was somewhat dismayed recently to read several articles that either implicitly or explicitly blamed Jews for the crimes committed against them. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press One of the main mitzvos of Chanukah is publicizing the great miracle Hashem performed for our forefathers. But what makes this miracle different from the many other miracles we’ve experienced throughout the generations? Our very existence as Jews is a miracle. The walls of Yericho sank into the ground. The mighty […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I’m seriously dating a girl that I have really connected with. We share the same hashkafa and vision for the future. Her family however, has a more modern background with a home life that is completely different than the one we hope to make. My more typical frum […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Elliotsorkin / CC 4.0 A member of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., is suing anti-Israel protesters and city leaders over weekly demonstrations outside the synagogue. The weekly Saturday anti-Israel protests have been going on for years. The 85-page complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Chashukei Chemed teaches us that if, G-d forbid, a Jew is homeless and sleeps on a park bench, he is exempt from the mitzvah of lighting Chanukah menorah. The mitzvah of menorah calls for ner ish u’beiso, for a candle to be lit in a man’s home. But why? Why […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chanukah is the only Yom Tov not mentioned in Tanach. That’s why the Talmud asks (Shabbos 21b), “What’s Chanukah?” In answer, it describes in detail, not the stupendous military victory of the few over the many and the weak over the strong, but the spiritual miracle: “When the Greeks entered the […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “I must go say goodbye to the Kotel before I head back to New York tomorrow!” my mother-in-law announced. It was the morning of the seventh day of a jam-packed Chanukah (which coincidentally had included countless jam-packed sufganiyot as well), and my son, who was on vacation from yeshiva that day, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It would be an undisputed fact that the Jewish people and the state of Israel has had no greater friend in the white house than president Donald Trump; if people would be intellectually honest. No previous president has treated the Jewish nation and the state of Israel so well, so fair, […]

Photo Credit: Jonathan Karten’s Facebook page Jonathan Karten Jonathan Karten, 23, a senior at Columbia University, who served in the IDF with the rank of Sergeant, on Tuesday filed the first legal action since President Trump’s December 11 executive order applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish Americans. Karten asserts that […]