Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Israel Police spokesperson’s unit Antisemitic attack on the Boyan synagogue in Modiin Illit, Dec. 23 2019 Shocking devastation met the eyes of the morning worshipers when they arrived Monday at 6:30 am at the Boyan Chasidic synagogue in the central Israeli city of Modi’in Illit for the Shacharit service on the first day […]

Photo Credit: Elviwines-Cohen Family The opportunity to visit Spain has been a dream of mine for many years. My dream became a reality one evening while we were discussing wine over dinner and had an epiphany. A few weeks later we packed our bags and we were Barcelona bound. Around 1.5-hour drive south of Barcelona […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / UK Government UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Britain would not be Britain without its Jewish community, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a video message in which he vows to “stand with you and celebrate with you – at Chanukah and all year round.” Britain would not be Britain without its […]

Photo Credit: Engin Akyurt / Pixabay (illustrative) An Arab prison inmate sentenced in 2012 to 10 years’ incarceration after his conviction on charges of selling land to Jews has died in a Ramallah hospital run by the Palestinian Authority after being admitted two weeks ago. Arab affairs investigative journalist Khaled Abu Toameh quoted PA police […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The menorahs are polished, the dreidels are ready to make their annual appearance and donuts and latkes seem to be just about everywhere. Yup, Chanukah is here and whether you are looking for new recipes to enhance your holiday celebrations or gifts that will hit the spot, these two fabulous new […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Nancy Pelosi says House will go forward with Trump impeachment inquiry {Originally posted to The Lid website} Twenty-one years after Bill Clinton’s impeachment and 3 years after Hillary Clinton’s well-deserved loss, Washington Democrats are exacting political revenge on behalf of the Clintons by impeaching Donald Trump for winning the 2016 election. That is […]

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 […]