Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Zaken,” “seivah,” “yashish,” “kashish,” “yashan,” and “atik” all mean old. Pirkei Avos (5:24) states that a person becomes a zaken at 60 and reaches seivah at 70. Based on this mishnah, Rabbi Avraham Bedersi HaPenini (1230-1300) argues that “seivah” describes someone older than a “zaken” (see also I Samuel 12:2 and […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit reports his indictments of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 21, 2019. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday night released the indictments against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which conclude: “Defendant Netanyahu abused his public office and high status and inflicted substantial and serious harm on the proper conduct […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay / Stux illustrative For the first time ever, Israeli doctors in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv administered the world’s most expensive medication to a two-year-old child. Liam Samuel Nagi of Petach Tikva has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare form muscular dystrophy. Advertisement <!– […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s parshah we read about Avraham’s purchase of Me’aras HaMachpelah. Prior to any negotiations Avraham said to the bnei Cheis, “Ger v’soshav anochi…” – I am a stranger and a resident… (Bereishis 23:4). Rashi quotes a medrash that explains the apparent paradox in Avraham’s words as follows: Avraham was […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I remember the first Gemara I learned in school in 8th grade was Bava Metziya about the laws of returning lost objects. I remember I was sick when they had the written test and so I took the test orally afterward and got a hundred. So it’s a Gemara that’s dear […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Mengistu family at the PMO in Jerusalem, Nov 21 2019 It could not have been an easy meeting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Thursday (Nov. 21) in Jerusalem at the Prime Minister’s Office with the Mengistu and A-Said families, together with the Coordinator […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 47                                 5780New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMENovember 22, 2019– 24 Cheshvan 57804:15 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News Size #15: Banner 468×60 (Comments and Mobile) [468×60] –> ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press This week I acquired a fine edition of the Talmud published in Vienna between 1860 and 1872. Printed on excellent paper and with wide margins, this attractive edition was the result of much effort on the part of Vienna’s rabbi at the time, R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz. This edition includes, for […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: What did our sages mean when they said that anyone who resides outside the Land Israel is like an idol worshipper? Is that what all of us residing outside Israel are – idol worshippers? M. Goldblum Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News Size […]

Photo Credit: pixabay The Power of Words John Paul Jones once sent a communique from his flagship to the commander of a seaside British fortress.  His message contained a simple ultimatum: surrender your position, or my fleet will blow you and your men into oblivion. At the bottom of the letter he affixed his signature: […]