Category: Israel

Photo Credit: pixabay After a powerful Day of Atonement, how do we offer thanks for the promise of a fruitful, blessed year ahead? By moving outdoors into increasingly inclement weather and taking up residence in Sukkahs (booths) to acknowledge that our existence is fragile, temporary, and dependent on His kindness. Ecology, unconditional giving and a […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 41                               5780 New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEOctober 11, 2019 – 12 Tishrei 57806:04 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 7:02 p.m. NYC E.D.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 7:33 p.m. NYC E.D.T.Weekly Reading: Ha’azinuWeekly Haftara: […]

Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Today Sunday 9/23 at sundown, Jews across the world begin the celebration of Sukkot. Sukkot is one of the three most important Jewish festivals (the other two are Passover and Shavuot). I know what some of you are thinking, and the answer is no, Chanukah is […]

Photo Credit: IDF Evacuated Casualties of the Yom Kippur War Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, at the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, cited the main lesson from that war, when the Israeli government and the IDF ignored information about an imminent Arab attack, resulting […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Holocaust Garden of Remembrance being cleaned after that anti-Semitic vandalism Westchester County police on Tuesday, the eve of Yom Kippur, discovered two flyers containing anti-Semitic messages and images glued outside the Holocaust Garden of Remembrance on Martine Avenue, the NY Post reported. The flyers were difficult to remove due to the adhesive […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf At the end of this week’s parsha, we see something curious: Although the song of Haazinu is – both before it and after it – thoroughly associated with Moshe, it was not presented to the Jewish people by him alone. Rather we are informed that Yehoshua (here, Hoshea) was also […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel Guerra President Donald J. Trump {Written by Shay Attias and originally posted to the BESA website} Forbes‘s World’s Most Powerful People Index of 2019 Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Unlike Obama during his first term […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot One of Halle’s Yom Kippur shooting lying in the street. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that anti-Semitism was certainly one of the shooter’s motives, in his attack on a Synagogue in eastern Germany on Yom Kippur. A statement of the obvious? Possibly, except that after having killed one person […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Two former Yamina party leaders Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett Following the request by Yamina earlier this week to split into two factions, New Right and Habayit Hayehudi-National Union, over technical constraints, on Thursday, the Knesset Regulating Committee approved the split. MK Matan Kahane represented New Right in the committee meeting […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Lederman/Flash90 The Island of Peace in Naharaim, northern Israel, on the border with Jordan, March 31, 2017. Jordan Valley Regional Council Head Idan Greenbaum on Thursday sent a personal letter to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, asking to meet with him in order to reach a new settlement that would allow Israeli farmers […]