Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Some 500 Haredim protested against opening business on Shabbat on Friday night and throughout the day Saturday in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and Beit Shemesh. At least seven were arrested and later released. Hundreds of Haredi men rioted on Ha’Neviim Street in downtown Jerusalem and moved toward Highway 1 outside the Haredi neighborhood of […]

Photo Credit: Sandy Eller Over the past few years, thousands have made pilgrimages to Eastern Europe, visiting the kevarim of renowned rebbes on auspicious times. Rosh Hashanah in Uman has become a “thing,” as have visits to the burial places of Reb Yeshayale Kerestir in Hungary and the Noam Elimelech in Lizhensk. For those of […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Shelah (1560-1630) writes that every special date on the Jewish calendar is related to the parashiyos read in close proximity to it. What, then, is the connection between Vayeishev and Chanukah? The following is one answer: When Yosef went to check on his brothers at the bequest of his father, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press What do Smokey the Bear, Scared Straight, and red light cameras have in common? Among other things they all seem to have, at some point, generated unintended consequences. The law of unintended consequences simply stated is that all human decisions and actions result in unintended and unanticipated results. While these consequences […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz That’s what they say:   peace, love & rock n’ roll can save the world. Lately though, I’m beginning to rethink this. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Take peace and love… A lawsuit was filed in November 2019 by KKL-JNF and […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Tuesday was the 19th of Kislev. On that day over 200 years ago, the Alter Rebbe left a Russian prison. His students explain that on that same day Chasidut also left prison and began to spread, breaking through every boundary. Here are three crucial truths from Tanya, the fundamental text that […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, June 27 2019 New York is providing $10 million to protect “religious-based institutions and non-public schools from hate crimes,” announced Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. The funds would support more than 200 projects, said the governor’s office […]

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Photo Credit: Fibonacci Blue / Wikipedia IlhanOmar (JNS/Israel Hayom) Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday calling on the administration to dramatically reduce its sanctions against Iran, which Omar characterized as “economic warfare.” The […]