Category: Israel

[embedded content] The unique meaning of Eretz Israel — the Land of Israel — is that it can provide one with meaning and connection, because God is more revealed here than anywhere else in the world, according to Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller of Neve Yerushalayim College in Jerusalem. The Rebbetzin shares her insights on the value […]

Photo Credit: Screenshots Amazon sales and shipping to Israel On Monday, which happens to be Chinese Singles Day, the Chinese equivalent of Black Friday, Amazon launched free international shipping to Israel for orders of selected items over $49. On the same Monday, Amazon also officially launched its Hebrew language website. But wait, there’s more: Amazon […]

Photo Credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90 Jerusalem Almost half of the Israelis live in only 16 cities, and Jerusalem is the largest city in the country, a Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) report on the issue shows. The CBS report, released on Monday, showed that there are 1,218 localities, of which 1,090 are Jewish, 137 are non-Jewish, […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press We are indeed lucky to be living in a time where there are so many great kosher cookbooks and new idea-filled volumes popping up every year. Creativity and flexibility are major themes in two new arrivals to the scene with recipes presented in innovative formats that really lend themselves to tailoring […]

Photo Credit: Mark Neiman (GPO) Bnei Akiva Yeshivot and Ulpanot Elchanan Glatt is to President Rivlin’s right; Rabbi Haim Meir Druckman is to his left. President Reuven Rivlin on Monday participated in the first education conference of Bnei Akiva Yeshivot and Ulpanot, together with the newspaper Makor Rishon, where he gave a class entitled “The […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Sept. 15, 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told a special Knesset session devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the PA Arabs “are not prepared to accept a Jewish nation state and have […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Jonathan Ben-Artzi, the grandson of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yonatan Ben Artzi, the grandson of late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, was assailed by politicians and members of the media for the speech he gave Sunday during the memorial marking the 24th anniversary of his grandfather’s assassination. Ban Artzi claimed […]

Photo Credit: Public Image {Originally posted to The Lid website} 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. Trump Netanyahu Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment […]

Photo Credit: Flickr {Originally posted to the BESA website} Palestinian Islamic Jihad—the second-largest armed terror faction in Gaza after Hamas—is agitating for violence, and is in fact the organization that conducted Friday night’s rocket barrage on the Israeli border city of Sderot. Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News […]