Category: Israel

Photo Credit: File Photo Group photo of Lubavitcher emissaries at a recent Shluchim Convention. If there is ever a contest for “World’s Most Misunderstood Photo” the annual class photo of the shluchim (Chabad rabbis) will surely be a finalist. You know the one I’m talking about. About 5,000 shluchim convene in New York every year […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Israelis stand by the Iron Dome battery stationed in Ashkelon, July 14, 2018. While the talks between Israel and Hamas are currently being conducted at a rapid pace, at least the Israeli side is optimistic (see: Al Akhbar: Israel Renews Talks with Hamas about Truce, Returning Soldiers’ Bodies), another initiative is […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Self-criticism can sometimes help us improve ourselves, but feeling greatness and elevation can help even more. Rabbeinu Yonah, who passed away 756 years ago this week, wrote prolifically from the city of Girona, in medieval Spain, about repentance and self-improvement. He explains that if we only remember who we are and […]

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi/TPS Palestinian Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza City The majority of Gazans killed in this month’s clash between Israeli forces and Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip were terrorists, the Israeli-based Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) found after an in-depth inquiry into the identities of the Gazan fatalities in […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran (C) sits with Supreme Court Justice Nil Hendel (L) and Supreme Court Justice Uri Shoham at the courtroom of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem before the start of a court hearing, July 5, 2016. Families of victims of terrorism are outraged after Israeli Supreme […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 Members of the Hamas terror arm, Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in Deir Al Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 6, 2018. The daily tabloid Al Akhbar, published in Beirut, on Friday reported: “Renewed contacts with Hamas: The enemy is optimistic about a long truce.” According to the report, Egypt, […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz (((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) Are you blessed if you trick your own father to get his blessings? Rav Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai in an attempt to snatch a blessing from the Torah portion of Toldot and understand the root of the rivalry between Yaakov (Jacob) and Esav (Esau). Then, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s parshah we read about the story that we are all familiar with, the sale of the birthright (bechorah) from Eisav to Yaakov Avinu. The Torah tells us that Yaakov Avinu was cooking a lentil stew as Eisav came in from the field exhausted. Eisav notoriously said to Yaakov […]