Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Torah tells us: “Venishmartem me’od lenafshoteichem” (Devarim 4:15). Literally, the verse means “Be very careful about your lives,” but the rabbis teach us that this mitzvah is referring specifically to our health. They also point out that it is the only mitzvah which uses the word “meod,” meaning very. We […]

[embedded content] In the middle of the night, citizens of Iraq began streaming to Tahrir Square in Baghdad to celebrate the assassination of their enemy, Qassem Soleimani. احتفالات المتظاهرين في #ساحة_التحرير بمقتل الارهابي قاسم سليماني.#نريد_وطن pic.twitter.com/kZPCKmFCaN — محمد فوزي اللامي (@Mo_Allamy) January 3, 2020 Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Jews in the U.S. are being targeted daily, assaulted in broad daylight by myriad anti-Semites and the secular Jewish establishment remains, remarkably, silent. Is there a reason for the disunity? Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 10 });

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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 […]