Category: Israel

Photo Credit: pixabay Living life with uncertainty is hard. Going out of our comfort zone is difficult. Yet, it is precisely when we are called to go beyond our sense of self that we can become more and transform not only ourselves, but the entire world. This is the essence of the tests of Abraham […]

Photo Credit: Public Domain / Library of Congress Tombs of the Kings, Jerusalem French authorities have opened Jerusalem’s ancient “Tomb of the Kings” to the public for the first time in 10 years, The Associated Press reported Friday. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 […]

Photo Credit: Goran Horvat / Pixabay illustrative A Jewish cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut was the scene of a macabre mystery last week that has left gravediggers wondering what happened to a body that seems to have vanished. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); The grave […]

Photo Credit: Iranian Pres. Hassan Rouhani / Twitter Acct Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has announced the discovery of a new oil field in the southwestern Khuzestan province, which he said Sunday contains an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude oil. “This is in a big oil field that stretches 2,400 sq […]

Yisrael Medad talks with Doron Keidar about the history of the ever-changing status quo on the Temple Mount. An amazingly insightful discussion that shouldn’t be missed. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 25 });

Photo Credit: WikiCommons. Former Congressman Joe Walsh. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Once a staunch pro-Israel Illinois congressman between 2011 and 2013, Joe Walsh launched this past summer a long-shot Republican primary challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump, whom many have deemed to be the most pro-Israel figure ever in the White House. Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Nancy Pelosi says House will go forward with Trump impeachment inquiry {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} November, the month signaling the approach of winter, brings the American public the promise of a bitter, dishonest, political spectacle — casting a poisonous gloom over the traditional winter holidays celebrating faith and […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Larry’s Letters Nov. 8, 2019 Independent Jewish Voices Canada Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); My Dear Fellow Jews, I would be very grateful if you would circulate this to the members of your chapter. It is very important for Jews to […]

Photo Credit: Montage of Public Images {Originally posted to The Lid website} Yesterday’s big political news was former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s announcement he was registering for the Democratic presidential primary in Alabama, as a move toward a possible 2020 run. Policy-wise, Bloomberg is more of a moderate than most of the Democratic presidential field. […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay Stephen Flatow’s op-ed last month resonated with me. I was a Conservative Jew for most of my life. I didn’t become Orthodox until my daughter married Orthodox. It was a long, slow path, but I made it. How? Let me go back several decades. In fact, let me go back to 1907 […]