Category: Israel

Photo Credit: US Navy / Ed Barker / public domain NASA astronaut candidate Lt. Col. Mark Vande Hei and Lt. Cmdr. Patrick McCaslin, an instructor with Training Squadron (VT) 4, conduct a preflight check of the cockpit of a T-6A Texan II before an instrument training flight at Naval Air Station Pensacola The roots of […]

Photo Credit: Kedem Auction House Rav Shapira’s Daf Yomi Every seven and a half years, Jews throughout the world participate in a Siyum HaShas. Photographs of Rabbi Meir Shapiro are displayed at these siyumum, where he is hailed as the man who first suggested that Jews around the world study a daf a day until […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It wasn’t a miracle. Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz emphasized again and again when he taught this parshah that Yaakov moving the massive stone from the well was not a miracle. Yet, it was not a matter of physical strength either. It was a matter of heart and faith. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chassidim have celebrated the 19th of Kislev (“Yud Tes Kislev”) ever since the Alter Rebbe (1745-1812) – author of Shulchan Aruch HaRav and Tanya – was released from czarist imprisonment on that date in 1798. It gained even greater significance, however, when 103 years later his great-great-grandson, the Rebbe Rashab (1860-1920), […]

Photo Credit: Free image from pexels.com Krispy Kreme store in London. Back in March, the German newspaper Bild reported that the Reimann family which owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Panera Bread, supported Hitler during the war and used Russian and French slave laborers. The tabloid’s four-page report resulted in a statement from the Reimanns that […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 Likud leader Netanyahu believes the Ethiopian community would yield him 2 new seats in March. A News 12 survey conducted by Mano Geva’s Midgam Institute in collaboration with iPanel, shows the two rival blocs in Israeli politics remaining almost identical to where they were after the September elections, and suggests […]

[embedded content] Early Friday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced that he is standing down, following his humiliating defeat: with 596 out 650 districts reporting, Labour lost at least 54 seats in Parliament in Thursday’s elections. The Conservative party, led by PM Boris Johnson, has established its biggest majority in decades. These could be the […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Netanyahu and Merkel {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} The European Union has, over the years, become increasingly hostile towards Israel. That attitude was confirmed in early November when the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that food products made in the so-called settlements of East Jerusalem, the West […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In Parshas Lech Lecha Hashem changed Avraham’s name from Avram to Avraham. The Gemara in Brachos (13a) says that one who calls Avraham, Avram, has transgressed both a positive and a negative commandment. Yet, we do not find the same halacha regarding others whose names were changed, such as Sarah Imeinu […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / UK Government If the exit polls are right, UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to Number 10 Downing with a huge mandate to “Get Brexit Done” and truly be done with it once and for all. In Britain, Voters Lined Up at Polling Stations Nationwide Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]