Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 {Written by Adina Shmidman and originally posted to the JNS website} The essence of Simchat Torah is the completion of the reading of the Torah scroll, and the joy and celebration that naturally ensues from the annual culmination of the Torah-reading cycle. Because of the traditional means of […]

Photo Credit: Deutsche Welle Screenshot Flowers in front of the Halle kebab shop where one victim of the Yom Kippur terror attack was killed. An estimated 5,000 people attended a memorial concert in Halle on Saturday, 10 days after a German terrorist shot and killed two people and injured two more in a shooting rampage […]

Photo Credit: courtesy of the author Author and Jewish Press writer Tzvi Fishman Parshat Va’Etchanan begins with Moshe begging Hashem to allow him to enter Eretz Yisrael: “I beseech Thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good mountain and the Lebanon.” Rabbi Sholom Gold of Har […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 Sbarro Restaurant terror attack. August 9, 2001 The official media mouthpiece of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan reports on Saturday evening on US politicians visiting, and paying generous homage to, King Abdullah II. Related story: Pelosi, Abdullah II, Meet, But King Won’t Attack Trump’s Syria Pullout Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]

Photo Credit: Marcello Casal Jr./Abr via Wikimedia King Abdullah II House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Congressional Democrats – Foreign Affairs committee chairman Eliot Engel, Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, Intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff and Representative Mac Thornberry – as well as Mac Thornberry, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, […]

Photo Credit: Shlomo Matityahu/TPS The winner (4L) of the 2019 Bible Marathon at the finishing point in the ancient Shilo. Oct 18, 2019. Some 4,000 contestants from Israel and around the world participated in the 5th Annual International Bible Marathon that ended at the ancient site of Tel Shiloh, at which the Tabernacle resided for […]

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Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Clashes break out between protesters in police in Beirut streets Following three days of protest marches and riots in Beirut, Tripoli and several other cities in Lebanon, Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian party Lebanese Forces—the Phalange militia formed in the 1976 Lebanese Civil War and collaborated with Israel during the […]

Photo Credit: Wiki commons I knew the Kol Nidre crowd at the Beverly Hills Hotel was probably expecting me to talk about big issues. Since I deal with such issues all week long, I could have spoken about the alarming rise in anti-Semitism, the complicated relationship with Israel, the challenge of Jewish continuity, the need […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 Highway approaching Eilat. The Arava Valley along the Jordanian border stretches 180 km from Eilat in the south to the tip of the Dead Sea in the north. Israeli security forces arrested seven suspects on Saturday after they crossed into Israeli territory from Jordan. “”This morning, IDF forces […]