Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Pres / 123rf.com Is it okay to enjoy Christmas songs like “Jingle Bells”if one happens to hear them playing in a store or on the street? Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); While listening to and enjoying these […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Torah scroll (illustrative) Twice in the early verses of Va-Yeshev, Rashi quotes a Midrashic view telling us Yosef looked like Ya’akov. It’s a view I’ve long wondered about, because it makes the brothers’ failure to recognize him all the stranger. Faced with a man who looked like their father, would a beard […]

Photo Credit: IDF IDF soldiers about to pick up a suspect in the murder of Rina Shnerb The Shin Bet in collaboration with the IDF and Israel Police in recent months, exposed a broad and well organized terror infrastructure belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which carried out the bomb […]

Photo Credit: Facebook It is an unpleasant task to sound the alert that there are Jews who seek to destroy the State of Israel and harm its supporters. We brand Jews who try to harm Israel and the Jewish people as FAKE JEWS. They advocate Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel (BDS) and vilify Israel as […]

Photo Credit: החבלן via Wikimedia Tzitzit tchelet Ptil Tekhelet is running its first ever fundraising campaign. The Jewish Press took this opportunity to speak with the CEO, Dr. Baruch Sterman to learn what Ptil Tekhelet is all about and why they are raising funds. JP: Why have you embarked on this campaign? We thought that […]

Photo Credit: The Hebron Fund All the tribes of Yisrael came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood. (Samuel 2 5:1) Did you get to help renovate of Jerusalem back at the turn of the century when it was transitioning from a desert wasteland into a world-class city? If […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper during a welcoming ceremony for Harper at Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem January 19, 2014. (JNS) Jerusalem City Council member Dan Illouz (Hitorerut) on Tuesday (Dec. 17 2019) officially nominated former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006-15) for […]

Photo Credit: Hatzoloh of Judea & Samaria Firebombed car near the Jewish community of Beitar in Judea (archive) Israeli forces shot a Palestinian Authority terrorist who was attacking vehicles with Israeli license plates traveling on a road in Judea, south of Jerusalem, on Tuesday evening. “IDF troops thwarted an attempted terror attack after spotting a […]

Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem / POOL Israel’s Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea. January 31, 2019 The Jerusalem District Court has ordered a temporary suspension of operations at the Leviathan gas field. The order was issued Tuesday (Dec. 17) in a temporary injunction granted by Judge Eli Abarbanel […]

Photo Credit: Sraya Diamant / TPS Israeli trucks carrying supply for the Gazan people, entering Kerem Shalom cargo crossing on the Israel – Gaza border. Kerem Shalom, Jul 9, 2019. The IDF’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has coordinated and facilitated the export of strawberries from the Gaza Strip to England and […]