Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Judge First “Whoever did not want to hire me as a lawyer found themselves in court with me as their judge!” With these words chareidi judge, Lee First, began our interview. In the 1950’s she became a lawyer and was later promoted to Supervising Judge for the Workers Compensation Board of the state […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Why Avraham? That is the question that haunts us when we read the opening of this week’s parsha. Here is the key figure in the story of our faith, the father of our nation, the hero of monotheism, held holy not only by Jews but by Christians and Muslims also. Yet […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah . With its recent clash with Israel, Hezbollah is again in the news. But for all of the attention Hezbollah gets, there are still elements of its history that remain ignored — or just misrepresented. Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press All my life, I’ve seen the photos of gyro hanging in bodegas and other non-kosher delis, and wondered how it tasted. Was it the same thing as shawarma? Now halfway into my lifetime, that wish was finally granted at Bridge: Turkish & Mediterranean Grill, and exceeded my expectations. Of course this […]

Photo Credit: vDoD photo by D. Myles Cullen Released An Israeli soldier looks over the Syrian and Jordanian borders from the Golan Heights, Israel, {Originally posted to the BESA website} Whichever Israeli government ends up coming to power will be faced with a set of urgent security challenges that are coming from a range of […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis host the Israeli robotics team that participated in the First Global Challenge robotics Olympiad in Dubai, Nov. 6, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis welcomed the Israeli robotics […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screen grab UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, August 2019 UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl has resigned from his post, effective immediately, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced Wednesday at a news briefing. Krahenbuhl was placed on administrative leave while an internal probe was taking place to investigate “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious […]

Photo Credit: The Brit Olam World Noahide Center A group of Bnei Noach from Taiwan visit Rabbi Sherki (fifth from right) at the Brit Olam center in Jerusalem. Two weeks ago, with the approach of Parshat Noach, the Brit Olam World Noahide Center, founded in 2011, announced the completion of a Shulchan Aruch for Bnei […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I am engaged to a wonderful girl who seems perfect for me in every way. The only small glitch is that her parents are very wealthy and I am worried that they will try to control every decision and plan that we make in the future. They are […]

Photo Credit: Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection, donated by Elhanan Ejbuszyc, Israel Chess pieces carved by Elhanan Ejbuszyc. Artifacts from the Holocaust – which arguably began on Kristallnacht 81 years ago this Shabbos – provide us with an intimate link to the Jews who lived through those horrific years. By the items they left behind, we […]