Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: In which direction should a person wave the lulav first? Menachem Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Answer: The Torah (Leviticus 23:40) states, “U’lekachtem lachem bayom harishon pri etz hadar, kappot temarim, va’anaf etz avot ve’arvei nachal, u’semachtem lifnei Hashem […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Yom Kippur has passed and we are entering the happy holiday of Sukkot. Do we really feel as though we were given a second chance? Do we actually understand that we were facing some terrible decree and because of the mercy of the Judge, we were let off the hook? Perhaps […]

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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Lawyers For The Whistleblower Have Democratic Connections Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Charles McCullough, one of the attorneys representing the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment movement targeting President Donald Trump, worked for the Obama administration and reported directly […]

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Photo Credit: Dean Reuter Nazi SS General Hans Kammler Many Jews are unfortunately familiar with the names Himmler, Goering, Eichmann, Hoess, and Mengele. Virtually, no one, however, has heard of Hans Kammler even though he oversaw the construction of numerous concentration camps and headed the Nazis’ rocket and nuclear research programs. Historians generally assume Kammler […]

Photo Credit: IDF Spox Eight officers from the Israel Defense Forces traveled to the United States to meet with Birthright Israel North American delegates as part of a program called Mifgash (“meeting” in Hebrew). Here, they visited the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, September 2019. (JNS) Members of an Israel […]

Photo Credit: Wikepedia / Pradipta Mitra / CC SS 3.0 Yale University Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., is investigating swastika graffiti discovered on steps of the school’s side entrance on Saturday night, days before Yom Kippur, the Yale Daily News reported. “Yale Law School has zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind, and […]

Photo Credit: JerusalemFoundation.Org Jerusalem College of Technology (JNS) The Jerusalem College of Technology recently announced the launch of the Torah and Technology Research Center, which will provide specialized expertise necessary to respond to the complex ethical and halachic (Jewish legal) issues of our times. Supported by the Walder Foundation and operating under the direction of […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia Ofsted, the educational inspectorate that has been downgrading Jewish schools, has admitted to making a mistake after being threatened with legal action. In June, Manchester’s King David High School was downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate” on the grounds of “unlawful segregation” in its Yavneh Girls and Yavneh Boys divisions. This segregation was […]