Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jason Ciment The author and his son Gideon. This past weekend was supposed to be a friends and family bar mitzvah at Congregation Bnai David in Los Angeles, celebrating my son Gideon’s passage into manhood. It was destined to be a little special because Gideon, for most of his life, has been in […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Ezri Tubi delivers Boomerang’s Weekly Terror Report, February 21 – 28, 2019 You may not be familiar with this organization – but you should. Boomerang, founded in 2016, produces and distributes hard-hitting videos with detailed terror reports from Israel, focusing especially on events in Judea and Samaria. The founder of the organization […]

[embedded content] Something very strange seems to have happened during the Israeli Air Force’s large-scale attack on Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria overnight. In a video released by IntelliTimes, which is reportedly of the Syrian missile system launching rockets at the Israeli Air Force last night, one clearly sees Syrian missile after missile become […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO President Reuven Rivlin receives 2018 annual Rape Crisis Report from Executive Director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers, Orit Sulitzieano There was a 40 percent rise in the number of reports of rape in the State of Israel since 2014, according to the annual report submitted Wednesday […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO L-R: Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz, President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin and EJC and World Holocaust Forum Foundation president Dr. Moshe Kantor Some 30 heads of state from around the world have confirmed they will attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, taking place […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Lev Haolam Lev Haolam distributes Judea and Samaria communities’ products worldwide A Dutch Member of Parliament has submitted a motion to the European Union (EU) challenging its highest court’s ruling which mandates that Israeli products coming from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights must be labeled as coming from “settlements” […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I grew up in a non-religious home, but I have been frum for two years now. I recently became engaged to a wonderful girl, but my parents are very unhappy. Our engagement seems to solidify my new religious differences for them, and they want nothing to do with […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Twitter’s political ad ban will go into effect at the end of the week. It was a controversial decision, and is in direct contrast to Facebook’s political advertising policy, which allows politicians to run political ads, even if they contain false or misleading information. In a tweet, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Is observing Thanksgiving in some manner praiseworthy or wrong (or neither)? Rabbi Marc D. Angel Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); President George Washington proclaimed Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of national thanksgiving to G-d for enabling […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at the Knesset, September 9, 2019. On Wednesday evening, Blue and White party chairperson Benny Gantz returned the mandate to form a new Israeli government to President Reuven Rivlin, acknowledging that he had failed to build a majority coalition. Israeli Elections 3.0 in the Wings? […]