Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Shomrim Crown Heights / Twitter Screenshot Three men attack a Jewish man in Crown Heights. Jan. 30, 2019 {Originally posted to the JNS website} Jill Jacobs is a rabbi. A Conservative rabbi. She is the executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I passed by the school where I studied as a boyand said in my heart: here I learned certain thingsand didn’t learn others. All my life I have loved in vainthe things I didn’t learn. I am filled with knowledge,I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge,the shape […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the SATIRICAL PreOccupied Territory website; submitted by Rabbi Jill Jacobs} New York, December 18 – Too many people have misunderstood my online reaction to the murder of Orthodox Jews in Jersey City last weekend, in which I attempted to distinguish between that attack, with its economic context, and […]

Photo Credit: unsplash {Originally posted to the JNS website} Some messages are simply too important to ignore. One such message, I believe, emerges from two words in the Talmud’s short discussion of the Hanukkah festival. While overwhelmingly vital and powerful, however, this communication is easily missed. We have to be sensitive enough and honest enough […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Doug Goldstein Teaching teens to be financially responsible is one of the most important jobs a parent can do. How can you present budgeting, saving, and other financial concepts in a way that teenagers can relate to? Tamsen Butler, author of The Complete Guide to Personal Finance for Teenagers, explains why it’s […]

Photo Credit: Lior Mizrahi Hebrew University Professor Hervé Bercovier Holidays are a time for family. Festive gatherings with parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles create memories that last a lifetime. But when a loved one has Alzheimer’s disease (AD), holidays often become painful reminders of loss and deterioration. Currently, Alzheimer’s affects one-in-ten adults over the age […]

Photo Credit: Yehuda Sharabany Chinese Students visiting Tomb of Absalom This week the largest pro-Israel extra-curricular academic program for visiting Chinese students in Israel kicked off its third consecutive year. Run by Im Tirtzu, the program offers tours and lectures to visiting Chinese students aimed at turning them into goodwill ambassadors for Israel upon their […]

Photo Credit: Bar-Ilan University Prof. Haim Cohen Fatty liver, or hepatic steatosis, which develops when the body produces too much fat or doesn’t metabolize fat efficiently enough, affects around 25% of the global population. Excess fat is stored in liver cells, where it accumulates and can cause fatty liver and other diseases. In a study […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 The Gaza Strip fence An Arab suspect was identified by IDF soldiers late Monday morning as he was crossing the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, the IDF Spokesperson reported. IDF fighters who were jumped to the spot identified the suspect with a knife and fired at […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Russian olim attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the great Russian Aliya, December 24, 2015. 154,474 olim who are entitled to an Israeli citizenship under the law of return as family members of Jews, but who are not recognized as Jews by any religious definition, have come to Israel […]