US, Israeli National Security Advisers Pledge Closer Coordination on Iran

Photo Credit: Chanh Nguyen / Pixabay The White House The two top security officials in Israel and the United States met Wednesday to discuss ways to coordinate efforts on “countering Iran’s destabilizing influence and activities in the region.” Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat met with his American counterpart, US National Security Adviser Robert C. […]

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The Torah-Style Casino

Photo Credit: Jewish Press For a number of years, my late father-in-law would fly from Queens, New York to Israel in order to spend the holiday of Chanukah with us. My husband, Abe, was the one to pick up his father at Ben Gurion Airport and bring him to our home, south of Jerusalem. Sometimes […]

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Our True Enemies

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In last week’s parsha Yaakov Avinu davened to Hashem “Hatzileini na miyad achi miyad Eisav – Please save me from the hand of my brother from the hand of Eisav.” The Bais HaLevi asks the obvious question, why does it need to say achi – my brother and Eisav? Yaakov only […]

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Chanukah In Baghdad: Then And Now

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Shown here is an invitation to transportation and engineering forces in the British Army in Persia and Iraq for the “[Jewish] Officers and Other Ranks of No. 1. Pal. Docks & L. of C. Checking Coy.R.E. Paiforce” in Baghdad. The invitation is for “a party to be held on the occasion […]

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Moving On

Photo Credit: Jewish Press We all have our share of good times and bad ones. Life is full of happy experiences and unfortunately, of hard times as well. That is the nature of the world, sometimes we’re up and sometimes we’re down. The problem isn’t what comes our way but how we approach it. After […]

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Parshas VaYeshev

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 51                           5780New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEDecember 20, 2019 – 22 Kislev 57804:13 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 5:18 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 5:44 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Weekly Reading: VaYeshevWeekly Haftara: Koh […]

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