Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Have you ever felt an emotional tsunami hit you? Or an emotional train run you down? Since the damage that is felt after such an occurrence is emotional and not physical, it doesn’t get the proper attention from others. If someone, Heaven forbid, falls down and breaks a limb or gets […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Dr. Mordechai Kedar Dr. Mordechai Kedar, lecturer in Arabic culture at Bar-Ilan University, set off a firestorm last week when he said Yigal Amir did not assassinate former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he called Kedar’s “nonsensical remarks”; Bar-Ilan University temporarily suspended Kedar from representing the […]

Photo Credit: Ofer Zidon / Flash 90 A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter unload 669 Search & Rescue crew, May 28, 2013. Sometimes, Shai Shani had to crawl through dark and cold caves for hours. Other times, he jumped into a tumultuous ocean in the middle of a thunderstorm. This was not done to serve an adrenaline […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press / 123rf.com Is it appropriate to listen to the music of Richard Wagner? Rabbi Zev Leff Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); A book that has nothing intrinsically wrong with it from a Torah perspective (i.e., it does not contain heretical […]

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Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / Flash 90 Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s statement in support of the broad demonstrations taking place in Iraq in recent weeks was warmly accepted by the protesters. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest Iraqi Prime Minister Adel […]

Photo Credit: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz The Manot cave; the red square marks the area is where some of the teeth were found. Who were the Aurignacians who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? Until recently, little evidence, human remains or otherwise, had been found to possibly tell their story. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90 Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer, July 23, 2002. Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer, chairman and founder of Ezra LeMarpeh, a 50-year non-profit that provides medical assistance to the needy, may lose his charity after a crucial fundraiser has been cancelled because only male singers had been invited to participate. The fundraiser was a […]

Photo Credit: public images The New York Times always finds new ways to attack President Trump and to attack Israel.  We’re talking about the paper that buried stories about Palestinian terror attacks but Israeli retaliations ran on page one. In a report by Jennifer Medina about the J Street conference, the Times has decided, because […]

Photo Credit: Zarah Sultana’s Facebook page Labour candidate Zarah Sultana Zarah Sultana, 26, Labour’s candidate for the Coventry South seat in the UK House of Commons, on Monday night apologized for her online post that suggested she would rejoice in the deaths of former UK PM Tony Blair and current Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, which […]